Health Informatics: An Introduction

I Made Agus Setiawan (Computer Science Department, Udayana University)

Jurnal Ilmu Komputer
Vol 6 No 1: April 2013

Health informatics is a growing field that employs computer and information science into health sectortowards providing higher quality patient care through better management and availability ofinformation. However, the terminology of health informatics is poorly understood and not even agreedupon by academics and professionals. This paper will discuss and elaborate the field of healthinformatics including various terminologies and definition as well as the benefit for health sector andits challenges.