Eta S. Berner
Editor
2014
Twenty years ago almost the only individuals involved in healthcare who had even heard the term “informatics” were those who identified themselves as medical or nursing informaticians. Today, we have a variety of subfields of informatics including not just medical and nursing informatics, but informatics applied to other health professions (such as dental or pharmacy informatics), as well as health informatics, biomedical informatics, bioinformatics and public health informatics among others.