Definition
Informatics is the field of applied information science and computer science whose ultimate goal is to assist people with the aid of computers.
Further Resources
Bernstam EV, Tenenbaum JD, & Kuperman GJ. (2014). Preserving an integrated view of informatics(link is external). Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 21(e1), e178–e179. doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002262
Friedman CP. (2013). What informatics is and isn’t(link is external). Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 20(2), 224–226. doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001206
Han D, Wang S, Jiang C, Jiang X, Kim H-E, Sun J, & Ohno-Machado L. (2015). Trends in biomedical informatics: automated topic analysis of JAMIA articles(link is external). Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 22(6), 1153–1163. doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv157