Informatics is a broad, interdisciplinary field encompassing artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, information science, and social science.
Knowledge management (KM) comprises a range of practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences among target populations. Such insights and experiences are embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes, practice, documents, databases, and other media. KM practitioners argue that KM is not about technology. However, few argue enterprise KM can be successful without the application of technology. The theoretical tools of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, information science, and social science enable knowledge management.
Business informatics is a term commonly used in Central Europe to describe the combination of information technology, informatics and management concepts into one discipline. Like KM, BI seeks to harness informational synergies from the integration of business administration concepts and computer science technology. Similarly, Health informatics, Health care informatics or medical informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical guidelines which can be embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes, practice, documents, databases, and other media, as well as formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems. Health informatics is applied to the areas of nursing, clinical care, dentistry, pharmacy, public health and (bio)medical research.
Can synergies among these related approaches to similar problems be better leveraged?
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