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hi,
This is ravi mishra, i want to know what is difference between bioinformatics and meical informatics and want to know what is better between them
i m doing graduation(IT) final semester

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hi,
This is ravi mishra, i want to know what is difference between bioinformatics and meical informatics and want to know what is better between them
i m doing graduation(IT) final semester

hii friend..here is the difference between bio informatics and medical informatics.....

Medical Informatics is an applied discipline which lies in the intersection of computer science and medicine. It also draws from areas of library and information science, statistics, health policy making, and others. It is the science of how to collect and manage medical and health information using computers.

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary subject which integrates fields like biology, chemistry, biophysics, biostatistics and computer science to solve biological problems. The ultimate goal of Bioinformatics is to enable the discovery of new biological insights as well as to create global perspective from which unifying principles in biology can be discerned.

The mian difference between these both are Medical Informatics is more concerned with structures and algorithms for the manipulation of medical data, rather than with the data itself and bioinformatics is concerned with information about cellular and biomolecular structures and systems..