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Informatics

Maxwell Y. Jen  1 , Oren J. Mechanic  2 , Dac Teoli  3
In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan.
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Informatics

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Health informatics is the interprofessional field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem-solving, decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health. In other words, it is the science of information where the information is defined as data with meaning.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure: Maxwell Jen declares no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Disclosure: Oren Mechanic declares no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Disclosure: Dac Teoli declares no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

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