This definition is very similar to the first definition in this section and of course that should make some sense since that is exactly the kind of limit that weâre doing to show that a function is continuous.
Other uses of informatics in biomedical and health-related areas include: 1  Clinical informatics - Generally refers to informatics applied in healthcare or individual health settings.  Bioinformatics - The application of informatics in cellular and molecular biology, often with a focus on genomics.
Sometimes medical informatics is used to describe this area. The application of informatics focused on specific healthcare disciplines usually includes the name of that discipline, such as nursing (nursing informatics), dentistry (dental informatics), pathology (pathology informatics), etc.