The disciplines involved combines medicine fields with computing fields, in particular computer engineering, software engineering, information engineering, bioinformatics, bio-inspired computing, theoretical computer science, information systems, data science, information technology, autonomic computing, and behavior informatics. Health informatics is a spectrum of multidisciplinary fields that includes study of the design, development and application of computational innovations to improve health care. The health domain provides an extremely wide variety of problems that can be tackled using computational techniques.
It can be viewed as branch of engineering and applied science. Health informatics is the study and implementation of computer structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding, and management of medical information.
Medical informatics introduces information processing concepts and machinery to the domain of medicine.
