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Medical informatics is a sub-discipline of health informatics where skills in both medical and computer sciences come together in an effort to improve healthcare and

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Health informatics is a term that describes the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of healthcare information to foster better collaboration among a patient’s various healthcare