Hasman A, Haux R, Albert A
Department of Medical Informatics, University of Limburg, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 1996 Nov;51(3):131-9. doi: 10.1016/s0169-2607(96)01769-5.
Medical informatics is defined as the scientific discipline concerned with the systematic processing of data, information and knowledge in medicine and health care. The domain of medical informatics (including health informatics), its aim, methods and tools, and its relevance to other disciplines in medicine and health sciences are outlined. It is recognized that one of the major tasks of medical informatics is modelling processes. In this context, biological, communication, decision, engineering, educational, organizational and computational processes are distinguished and described.
医学信息学被定义为一门科学学科,它涉及医学和医疗保健中数据、信息和知识的系统处理。本文概述了医学信息学(包括健康信息学)的领域、其目标、方法和工具,以及它与医学和健康科学中其他学科的相关性。人们认识到,医学信息学的主要任务之一是对流程进行建模。在这种背景下,区分并描述了生物、通信、决策、工程、教育、组织和计算流程。