Health Informatics and its practice: Emerging Domain of Information Science - Indian Scenario

Health informatics is actually an integration of informatics and health or medical systems. Health informatics alternatively also referred as health information system. Informatics and health integration means application and utilization of informatics, computer and technological systems in health and medical systems, hospital, clinical houses, nursing home, pharmacy lab, clinical research lab and so on. Health information systems promotes the information transfer cycle chain and also boost the overall computerization and electronic documents. This paper deals with health computation and informatics. Here, we discuss the role, values and emerging challenges and opportunities of health information practice in India in contemporary scenario.