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Definition of Informatics

1. Noun. The sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information.

Definition of Informatics

1. Noun. (computing) a branch of information science, and of computer science, that focuses on the study of information processing,and particularly as respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Informatics

1. [n]

Medical Definition of Informatics

1. The study of the application of computer andstatistical techniques to the management of information. In genome projects, informaticsincludes the development ofmethods to search databases quickly, to analyse DNA sequence information, and to predict proteinsequence and structure fromDNA sequence data. (09 Oct 1997)

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Literary usage of Informatics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Health Consequences of Smoking: Cardiovascular Disease: A Report of the by DIANE Publishing Company, C. Everett Koop, M.D. (1995)
"... Office on Smoking and Health, Rockville, Maryland Leena Rang, Data Entry Operator, Clearinghouse Projects Department, informatics General Corporation, ..."

2. Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions by National Research Council (U.S.), Division on Earth and Life Studies (2006)
"THE HAZARDS AND DISASTERS informatics PROBLEM informatics refers ... Hazards and disaster informatics, therefore, is an enormously significant problem. ..."

3. Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/health Care Partnership by Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, Gary Fanjiang, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (U.S.), National Academies Press (U.S.) (2005)
"Biomedical informatics is the structuring of information into simple systems ... One of the trends in informatics is the development of an architecture that ..."

4. Procurement Reform: How Selected Countries Perform Certain Gsa Activities by Bernard L. Ungar (2001)
"... Public Works and Government Services Canada's Supply Operations Service (SOS) and Government Telecommunications and informatics Service (GTIS) branch. ..."

5. At the Crossroads: Ict Policy Making in East Africa by Florence Ebam Etta, Laurent Elder (2005)
"The Committee defined informatics as "the case study of computer science, its applications and impact on society," and its terms of reference as "to prepare ..."

6. The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public by Alina Baciu, Kathleen R. Stratton, Sheila P. Burke (2007)
"George Hripcsak, MD, MS, is professor and vice chair of Columbia University's Department of Biomedical informatics, associate director of medical ..."

7. Health Consequences of Smoking: Cardiovascular Disease: A Report of the by DIANE Publishing Company, C. Everett Koop, M.D. (1995)
"... Office on Smoking and Health, Rockville, Maryland Leena Rang, Data Entry Operator, Clearinghouse Projects Department, informatics General Corporation, ..."

8. Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions by National Research Council (U.S.), Division on Earth and Life Studies (2006)
"THE HAZARDS AND DISASTERS informatics PROBLEM informatics refers ... Hazards and disaster informatics, therefore, is an enormously significant problem. ..."

9. Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/health Care Partnership by Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, Gary Fanjiang, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (U.S.), National Academies Press (U.S.) (2005)
"Biomedical informatics is the structuring of information into simple systems ... One of the trends in informatics is the development of an architecture that ..."

10. Procurement Reform: How Selected Countries Perform Certain Gsa Activities by Bernard L. Ungar (2001)
"... Public Works and Government Services Canada's Supply Operations Service (SOS) and Government Telecommunications and informatics Service (GTIS) branch. ..."

11. At the Crossroads: Ict Policy Making in East Africa by Florence Ebam Etta, Laurent Elder (2005)
"The Committee defined informatics as "the case study of computer science, its applications and impact on society," and its terms of reference as "to prepare ..."

12. The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public by Alina Baciu, Kathleen R. Stratton, Sheila P. Burke (2007)
"George Hripcsak, MD, MS, is professor and vice chair of Columbia University's Department of Biomedical informatics, associate director of medical ..."

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