Health informatics is utilised in clinical, research, educational and administrative environments. This page includes articles and web sites which indicate the scope of the field.

These websites are a very few of the many you will find on the Internet. They illustrate the scope of health informatics

Services

• NHS Direct Online
• Canadian Society of Telehealth
• Virtual surgeon, but real operations

Research

• Health Informatics Research at the CSIRO
• UCL CHIME, University Free College and Medical School
• Centre for Health Informatics, University of New South Wales

Education

• Virtual Medical Education
• The Virtual Lecture Hall
• The Virtual Autopsy

Professional Organisations

• International Medical Informatics Association
• Health Informatics Society of Australia
• Australian College of Health Informatics