Health Care Informatics

Sub-domains of Health Informatics Medical informatics Clinical informatics  Nursing informatics  Public health informatics Bioinformatics  Imaging informatics  Pharmacy informatics Dental informatics

Veterinary informatics  Consumer health informatics eHealth  Clinical research informatics  Translational research informatics etc

Medical Informatics Medical Informatics is the branch of science concerned with the use of computers and communication technology to acquire, store, analyze, communicate, and display medical information and knowledge to facilitate understanding and improve the accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of decision making

Computers + communication technology acquire, store, analyze, communicate, and display Medical information + knowledge facilitate , improve Decision making

Medical informatics' and ‘Health informatics' 'Health informatics' is now tending to replace the previous term 'medical informatics', reflecting a widespread concern to define an information agenda for health services which recognises the role of citizens as agents in their own care, as well as the major information-handling roles of the non-medical healthcare professions.

- Individual health Health care Public health Research Medical informatics concerned with optimal use of information to improve: - Individual health Health care Public health Research

Public Health Informatics “the systematic application of information and computer science and technology to public health practice, research and learning”

Activities of public health informatics: Collection and storage of vital statistics Collection and reporting of communicable diseases Disease surveillance Display disease statistics and trends Immunization Hospital statistics others