Biomedical Informatics – A Confluence of Disciplines?
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Biomedical informatics--a confluence of disciplines?
BACKGROUND Biomedical informatics is a broad discipline that borrows many methods and techniques from other disciplines. OBJECTIVE To reflect a) on the character of biomedical informatics and to determine whether it is multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary; b) on the question whether biomedical informatics is more than the sum of its supporting disciplines and c) on the position of biomedi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Methods of Information in Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0026-1270,2511-705X
DOI: 10.3414/me11-06-0003