What is Health Informatics? One way to define it is as "the theory and practice of managing health care data, information, and knowledge through the appropriate application of communication and information technologies in order to support clinical and administrative decision-making and to improve health care processes and outcomes."
But there is more to Health Informatics than its academic definition. Health Informatics is a burgeoning field that involves many academic institutions, organizations and people whose research is being published in journals or communicated during well established conferences. The folowing is a list of some of the most prominent organizations, journals and conferences relevant to Health Informatics:
- Graduate education in Health Informatics
- Medical Informatics at Dalhousie University: http://informatics.medicine.dal.ca/
- Master in Health Informatics program at Dalhousie University: http://www.healthinformatics.dal.ca/
- Master in Health Informatics program at University of Victoria: http://hinf.uvic.ca/programs/gradprog/index.php
- Index of Health Informatics resources: http://www.hiww.org/
- A Social Network for Health Informatics Professionals and Students: http://www.healthinformaticsforum.com/
- Organizations
- Journals
- Conferences
- Information Technology and Communications in Health (ICTH)
- The AMIA Annual Symposium
- Medinfo
- Medical Informatics in Europe