Working Definition
“ Medical informatics is a developing body of knowledge and a set of techniques concerning the organizational management of information in support of medical research, education, and patient care…Medical informatics combines medical science with several technologies and
disciplines in the information and computer sciences and provides methodologies by which these can contribute to better use of the medical knowledge base and ultimately to better medical care.”
Definition by Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) 1986
Sited by: Hripcsak and Sideli (http://www.cpmc.columbia.edu/edu/textbook)