Definitions for Informatics
Princeton's WordNet
information science, informatics, information processing, IP(noun)
the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
Wiktionary
informatics(Noun)
a branch of information science, and of computer science, that focuses on the study of information processing,and particularly as respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
Origin: Coined 1957 or shortly thereafter from ; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Informatics
The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of data through the application of computers.
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