n. A branch of information science and of computer science, that focuses on the study of information processing and particularly as respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
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n. the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
Word Usage
"The term informatics embraces the modern concept of information in all its aspects: information management, infrastructure, processing, presentation, dissemination, design and analysis."