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Medical informatics is a new knowledge domain of computer and information science, engineering and technology in all fields of health and medicine, including research, education and practice. Medical informatics has evolved over the past 30 years as medicine learned to exploit the extraordinary capabilities of the electronic digital computer to better meet its complex information needs. The first articles on this subject appeared in the 1950s, the number of publications rapidly increased in the 1960s and medical informatics was identified as a new specialty in the 1970s.
医学信息学是计算机与信息科学、工程与技术在健康和医学所有领域(包括研究、教育和实践)的一个新知识领域。在过去30年里,随着医学学会利用电子数字计算机的非凡能力来更好地满足其复杂的信息需求,医学信息学得到了发展。关于这一主题的首批文章出现在20世纪50年代,20世纪60年代出版物数量迅速增加,医学信息学在20世纪70年代被确定为一个新的专业领域。