Automated systems applied to the patient care process including diagnosis, therapy, and systems of communicating medical data within the health care setting.
The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine.
The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of data through the application of computers.
The field of knowledge, theory, and technology dealing with the collection of facts and figures, and the processes and methods involved in their manipulation, storage, dissemination, publication, and retrieval. It includes the fields of COMMUNICATION; PUBLISHING; LIBRARY SCIENCE; and informatics.
Precise procedural mathematical and logical operations utilized in the study of medical information pertaining to health care.
Astrology is not a medical term, it refers to the study of the positions and movements of celestial bodies and their influence on human affairs and natural events, unrelated to the field of medicine.
The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of data through the application of computers applied to the field of nursing.
The use of statistical methods in the analysis of a body of literature to reveal the historical development of subject fields and patterns of authorship, publication, and use. Formerly called statistical bibliography. (from The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)
Computer-based systems for input, storage, display, retrieval, and printing of information contained in a patient's medical record.
Integrated set of files, procedures, and equipment for the storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information.
Study of the principles and practices of library administration and services.
Computer-based systems that enable management to interrogate the computer on an ad hoc basis for various kinds of information in the organization, which predict the effect of potential decisions.
The premier bibliographic database of the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. MEDLINE® (MEDLARS Online) is the primary subset of PUBMED and can be searched on NLM's Web site in PubMed or the NLM Gateway. MEDLINE references are indexed with MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS (MeSH).
A system containing any combination of computers, computer terminals, printers, audio or visual display devices, or telephones interconnected by telecommunications equipment or cables: used to transmit or receive information. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)