title: Informatics (disambiguation)
text: # Informatics (disambiguation)
  
  Informatics is the study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of natural and engineered computational systems.
  
  Informatics may refer to:
  
  * Computer science, the scientific study of algorithms, information and computation
  * Computing, any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers
  * Computer engineering (called technical informatics), the creating of computing hardware
  * Information science, an interdisciplinary study of information
  * Data science, the field related to data analysis and data engineering
  * Information technology, the study, design, development, implementation, support, or management of computer-based information systems,
  * Cognitive science, study of information processing in natural systems (called 'cognitive informatics')
  * Computational science, solving computational problems in natural sciences
  * Information engineering
  * Engineering informatics (not to be confused with informatics engineering, Southern European term)
  * Library science
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Informatics General, previously Informatics, Inc., leading independent software company 1962-1985
  * Informatics Europe, an association for European PhD-granting computer and information science departments
  * Informatics for Consumer Health, a U.S. governmental health body
  * Informatics Corporation of America, a U.S. healthcare information company
  * Informatics Forum, major building at University of Edinburgh
  * Informatics.nic.in, a quarterly e-Governance publication
  * Informatics Institute of Technology, educational entity in Sri Lanka
  * Informatics Philippines, an educational institution
  