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Biomedical informatics is a term used to describe the broad discipline concerned with the study and application of computer science, informatics, cognitive science and human-computer interaction in the practice of biological research, biomedical science, medicine and healthcare. Other fields, including bioinformatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics, are commonly cast as subdomains within biomedical informatics [1].

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References

  1. ^ Shortliffe EH, Cimino JJ eds. Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (3rd edition). New York: Springer, 2006



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