 right|thumb|electronic patient chart from a health information system health informatics (also called health care informatics, healthcare informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, clinical informatics, or biomedical informatics) is informatics in health care. it is a multidisciplinary field that uses health information technology (hit) to improve health care via any combination of higher quality, higher efficiency (spurring lower cost and thus greater availability), and new opportunities. the disciplines involved include information science, computer science, social science, behavioral science, management science, and others. it deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. health informatics tools include computers, clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems. it is applied to the areas of nursing, clinical care, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, occupational therapy, physical therapy and (bio)medical research, and alternative medicine too.popularity of usage of software in homeopathy is shown in example video of homeopathic repertorisation: shilpa bhouraskar, working quick acute cases on homeopathic software (youtube) * the international standards on the subject are covered by ics 35.240.80 in which iso 27799:2008 is one of the core components. * molecular bioinformatics and clinical informatics have converged into the field of translational bioinformatics. ==sub specialities== * healthcare informatics ** clinical informatics ** public health informatics ** community health informatics ***home health informatics ** nursing informatics ** medical informatics * clinical bioinformatics * informatics for education & research in health & medicine ==healthcare informatics== ===clinical informatics=== clinical informatics is concerned with the use of information in health care by clinicians.{{cite journal |author=gardner rm, overhage jm, steen eb, et al. |title=core content for the subspecialty of clinical informatics |journal=journal o
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