Health informatics is a broad, multidisciplinary field concerned with using data, information, knowledge, and technology to improve healthcare. It can include professionals from medicine, nursing, public health, computer science, pharmacy, administration, research, and other disciplines.
Nursing informatics is a nursing specialty within that larger field. It applies informatics specifically through the knowledge, responsibilities, and perspective of nursing. The American Nurses Association describes nursing informatics as integrating nursing science with computer and information science to manage and communicate information in nursing practice.
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