Table 1.

Definitions of informatics disciplines.

Informatics discipline	Definition
Bioinformatics	The study of information in biology, especially molecular biology, and often used to refer to data generated by genomics research [10]
Biomedical informatics	The study of information as applied to biomedical science and used to inform clinical care, medical research, and public health [11]
Clinical informatics	The medical specialty involved in the use and management of information generated by patient care, clinical research, and electronic health record systems [12]
Public health informatics	The discipline involved in managing information in public health such as vaccine registries, biosurveillance, outbreak information, and disease surveillance [13]
Medical informatics	The management of information in health care settings [14] now often used to describe nursing or dental informatics, as opposed to clinical informatics which refers to the physician-led medical specialty
Pathology informatics	An early subdiscipline of clinical informatics, focusing on laboratory information systems, analysis of pathology images, and the use of information generated in pathology practice and research [15]
Anesthesiology informatics	A subdiscipline of clinical informatics dealing with the use of information generated by anesthesia practice and the management of anesthesia information management systems.
Surgery informatics	A subdiscipline of clinical informatics dealing with the use of information generated by surgical research and practice