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The structure of medical informatics.
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Abstract
1. Definition From the viewpoint of hard- or software construction, computer applications in medicine are not very different from those in any other area of science and technology. The main (and sole) difference lies in the specific type of (medical) process that is related to certain applications. For that reason the field of medical informatics is considerably larger than simply computer application to medicine; it deals with the research of processes in medicine and health care, and the development of software systems (algorithms) to solve problems related to these processes. Hence, R & D in medical informatics requires a specific approach, related as closely to medicine as to informatics (computer science) itself. This is even more necessary if such problems concern distinct medical, i.e., diagnostic or therapeutic, processes. On this basis a definition of medical informatics can be formulated as follows: Medical Informatics comprises the theoretical and practical aspects of information processing and communication, based on knowledge and experience derived from processes in medicine and health care. Because of the abundance of applications of computers in medicine, we felt the need to bring some order in these (often) basically different applications by developing a working model (reported elsewhere in more detail [l]). The reason why we developed such a model was twofold: first to be able to understand the intrinsic potentialities of certain applications of computers in medicine and to obtain some idea of the principal limitations of the systems we develop; second to have a working model for educational purposes so that everyone becoming acquainted with medical information processing might not only learn technical skill but also obtain insight. Skill (experience) helps to solve specific problems for which one is trained (knowhow); insight is generalized knowledge to solve problems of a wide variety (knowwhy). Both terms appear in the definition above.
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