"The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline."

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