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What Is Biomedical Informatics?, Elmer V Bernstam, Jack W Smith, Todd R Johnson
What Is Biomedical Informatics?, Elmer V Bernstam, Jack W Smith, Todd R Johnson
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Biomedical informatics lacks a clear and theoretically-grounded definition. Many proposed definitions focus on data, information, and knowledge, but do not provide an adequate definition of these terms. Leveraging insights from the philosophy of information, we define informatics as the science of information, where information is data plus meaning. Biomedical informatics is the science of information as applied to or studied in the context of biomedicine. Defining the object of study of informatics as data plus meaning clearly distinguishes the field from related fields, such as computer science, statistics and biomedicine, which have different objects of study. The emphasis on data …