Medical informatics: Market for IS/IT

Following on the lead from earlier pilot studies, the present work uses co-occurrence analysis of INSPEC classification codes and thesaurus terms assigned to Medical Informatics journal articles and proceedings papers to reveal a more complete perspective of how information science and information technology authors view Medical Informatics. An important underlying dimension to this perspective portrays a continuum of interest from biophysics through biomechanics to biomedicine to (presumably) biology (which is noticeable in its absence). Medical Informatics may be described as the application of information science and information technology to the theoretical and practical problems of biomedical research, clinical practice, and medical education. However, study results suggest IS/IT considers its relationship to Medicine within Medical Informatics as that of supplier vs. market.