title: Medical informatics as a market for IS/IT.
abstract: Medical informatics is "the application of information science and information technology to the theoretical and practical problems of biomedical research, clinical practice, and medical education." A key difference between the two streams lies in their perspectives of "What Is Important in MI to Me?" MI may be seen as the marketplace where biomedicine consumes products and services provided by information science and information technology.
authors.affiliation: Kent State University, School of Library & Information Science, Columbus Program, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
authors.forename: Theodore Allan
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Morris
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D035843:Biomedical Research; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019992:Databases as Topic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D007254:Information Science; D016239:MEDLINE; D008490:Medical Informatics; D013358:Subject Headings; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled