The Central Role of Health Informatics in Advancing Public Health, Nursing, Physical Therapy, and Dentistry: A Comprehensive Review

Abstract

Health informatics is a confluence of computer science, information science, knowledge science, medical and health sciences, nursing, physical therapy, and other disciplines (Miah et al., 2019). It encompasses diverse research efforts to acquire and manage data, convert raw healthcare data into useful information and knowledge, and bridge the gap among medical research, clinical practice, and the everyday aspects of management and related decision-making within the healthcare system. As part of the huge body of health informatics research and the related fields that are occasionally touched by this rapidly growing discipline, the initial exploration aimed to generate holistic understanding and to outline its emergent themes and reveal contemporary unsolved research topics.