For example, "Bioinformatics" and "Public Health Informatics" are independent MeSH subjects not under the "Medical Informatics" term hierarchy and consequently are not included in this study.
The 50 identified medical informatics MeSH terms are rarely assigned together to the same document and are almost exclusively paired with a non-medical informatics MeSH term, suggesting a strong interdisciplinary trend.
We acknowledge the following limitations: Our search strategy only employed the "Medical Informatics" MeSH term and its descendents in the MeSH hierarchy.
Each search required the presence of selected chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes or autism in combination with any of the following terms: "medical informatics", "informatics", "decision support", or "computer assisted instruction" (detailed search strategy is available upon request).
We envisioned the more general MeSH term "Medical Informatics" as an umbrella term through which we anticipated capturing a large volume of the indexed literature in this field (as opposed to countless other specific terms utilized for indexing of known medical informatics articles).
As with informatics, the "tele-" terms sometimes reflect medical specialties in which they are applied, e.g., teleradiology and telepathology.
This chapter explains the concept of informatics, defining the term, informatics, and explaining the probabilistic approach to informatics.
The degree to which actors are able to influence these knowledge political assertions and assignments, we term informatics discretion, relies significantly on their participation, capacity and expertise in the types of information and communication modalities at issue (Elwood 2010).
The MeSH term "Informatics" was introduced in 2005 as an umbrella category for "Dental Informatics", "Medical Informatics", Nursing Informatics" and "Public Heath Informatics".
The term "Medical Informatics" was introduced as a MeSH term in 1987.
