Health informatics: Challenges and opportunities

Abstract

Health Informatics (HI) imposes informatics concepts, theories, and practices to real-life circumstances to attain improved health outcomes, which incorporate not only collection and accumulation of data but also data analysis and presentation. A plethora of research activities has been going on in the field of HI due to the widespread of its probable applications. This chapter presents a comprehensive treatise on HI, its potential challenges, opportunities and some recommendations as the future directions for HI. All the pertinent aspects are discussed in this chapter with a view to relating their significance in HI and its applications. On the whole, the chapter ensures the fundamental information one needs to step into the world of HI.