"Medical informatics" is the main constituent of bio medical informatics, the field that concerns itself with the cognitive, information processing and communication tasks of medical practice, education, and research, including the information science and the technology to support these tasks. It is an intrinsically interdisciplinary field, with a highly applied focus, but it also addresses a number of fundamental research problems as well as planning and policy issues. Academic units of medical informatics are being established at a number of medical colleges and Institutions.
Medical informatics professionals are being sought to serve on faculties and hospital staffs, and medical informatics emerging as a distinct academic entity. Information and communication technology is comprised of computers, networks, satellite communications, robotics, video text, cable television, electronic…
