medical informatics

Preferred Label : medical informatics;

MeSH definition : The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine.;

MeSH synonym : informatics, medical; Health Informatics; Informatics, Health;

CISMeF synonym : sciences, medical computer; science, medical information; information sciences, medical; sciences, medical information; computer sciences, medical; information technologies, health; technologies, health information;

MeSH Hyperonym : information science, medical; medical computer science; Computer Science, Medical; Medical Computer Sciences; Science, Medical Computer; Medical Information Sciences; Medical Information Science;

MeSH hyponym : clinical informatics; health information technology; Informatics, Clinical; Health Information Technologies; Information Technology, Health; Technology, Health Information;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health informatics;

Details

Origin ID

D008490;

UMLS CUI

C0025088;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Biomedical Computing [NCIt concept]
- Biomedical Informatics [EFMI term]
- Informatics [NCIt concept]
- Medical Science [NCIt concept]
- Medical informatics [EDAM topic]
- Medical information systems [UNESCO concept]
Metaterm(s)
- medical informatics [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- clinical informatics [MeSH concept]
- health information technology [MeSH concept]
- information science, medical [MeSH concept]
- medical computer science [MeSH concept]
- medical informatics [MeSH concept]
See also
- american recovery and reinvestment act [MeSH Descriptor]
- biomedical technology [MeSH Descriptor]
- computational biology [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- computer literacy [MeSH Descriptor]
- computer user training [MeSH Descriptor]
- computer-assisted instruction [MeSH Descriptor]
- computing methodologies [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
Validated automatic mappings to BTNT
- health information technology [EFMI term]

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