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 assist in clinical and administrative decision-making and 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/
• Organizations
  • Canadian Health Informatics Association (COACH)
  • American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  • European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI)
  • International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
• Journals
  • Methods of Information in Medicine
  • International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI)
  • Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
  • Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI)
  • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
• Conferences
  • Information Technology and Communications in Health (ICTH)
  • The AMIA Annual Symposium
  • Medinfo 2007
  • Medical Informatics in Europe