The Importance of Informatics in Healthcare

Informatics is really about leveraging. all of this data being collected, whether it's written down or you have scans, X-ray CT scans, what have you. So informatics is like kind of taking this data in aggregate, coming up with questions, hypotheses, just like any other scientific method. You're trying to identify a population, typically called a cohort of patients, and try to identify what factors, what data about those patients may be relevant.