Task: Class Definition Understanding (ontology: Sciences/Biology)

Which of the following definitions best describes 'clinical informatics'?

A. The application of informatics methods in clinical settings to manage medical information and improve healthcare.
B. Musicals pertaining especially to lesbians and/or lesbian culture.
C. The application of informatics methods to manage nursing information and improve healthcare.
D. The field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic health records, diagnostic test results, medical scans. The health domain provides an extremely wide variety of problems that can be tackled using computational techniques.

Answer: The application of informatics methods in clinical settings to manage medical information and improve healthcare.