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Health informatics (also called health care informatics, healthcare informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, clinical informatics, or biomedical informatics) is information engineering applied to the sector of health care, essentially the management and use of patient health care information. it's a multidisciplinary field that uses health information technology (HIT) to enhance health care via any combination of upper quality, higher efficiency (spurring lower cost and thus greater availability), and new opportunities. The disciplines involved include informatics , computing , science , behavioral science, management science, et al. . The us National Library of drugs (NLM) defines health informatics as "the interdisciplinary study of the planning , development, adoption and application of IT-based innovations in health care services delivery, management and planning". It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of data in health and bio-medicine. Health informatics tools include computers, clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and knowledge and communication systems, among others. Clinical research informatics (CRI) may be a sub-field of health informatics that tries to enhance the efficiency of clinical research by using informatics methods. a number of the issues tackled by CRI are: creation of knowledge warehouses of health care data which will be used for research, support of knowledge collection in clinical trials by the utilization of electronic data capture systems, streamlining ethical approvals and renewals (in US the responsible entity is that the local institutional review board), maintenance of repositories of past clinical test data (de-identified).      

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