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Medical informatics as a market for IS/IT
1Kent State University, School of Library & Information Science, Columbus Program, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
|December 5, 2002
Abstract:
Medical informatics is "the application of information science and information technology to the theoretical and practical problems of biomedical research, clinical practice, and medical education." A key difference between the two streams lies in their perspectives of "What Is Important in MI to Me?" MI may be seen as the marketplace where biomedicine consumes products and services provided by information science and information technology.