A stimulus to define informatics and health information technology
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A stimulus to define informatics and health information technology
BACKGROUND Despite the growing interest by leaders, policy makers, and others, the terminology of health information technology as well as biomedical and health informatics is poorly understood and not even agreed upon by academics and professionals in the field. DISCUSSION The paper, presented as a Debate to encourage further discussion and disagreement, provides definitions of the major ter...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1472-6947
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-9-24