Published by Elsevier Science. ISSN: 1386-5056.The Journal provides an international medium for dissemination of original results and interpretative reviews concerning the field of medical informatics.The scope of the journal covers: Information systems, including national or international registration systems, hospital information systems, departmental and/or physician's office systems, document handling systems, electronic medical record systems, standardization systems integration etc.; Organizational, economic, social, ethical and cost-benefit aspects of IT applications in health care; Computer-aided medical decision support systems using heuristic, algorithmic and/or statistical methods as exemplified in decision theory, protocol development, artificial intelligence, etc. Evaluations of educational computer based programs pertaining to medical informatics or medicine in general.The emphasis is on the description of clinically evaluated systems. Short technical communications concerning (solved) problems in implementing or using existing information systems are welcome. Review articles concerning subjects falling in the scope of the journal are also invited.

由愛思唯爾科學出版。ISSN: 1386 - 5056。該雜志提供了一個國際媒體，傳播有關醫學信息學領域的原始結果和解釋性評論。期刊范圍包括:信息系統，包括國家或國際注冊系統、醫院信息系統、科室和/或醫師辦公室系統、文件處理系統、電子病歷系統、標準化系統集成等;資訊科技應用于醫療保健的組織、經濟、社會、道德及成本效益;采用啟發式、算法和/或統計方法的計算機輔助醫療決策支持系統，如決策理論、協議開發、人工智能等。與醫學信息學或醫學相關的教育計算機程序的評估。重點是描述臨床評估系統。歡迎就實施或使用現有信息系統中(已解決的)問題進行簡短的技術交流。此外，我們亦邀請讀者就屬于本雜志范圍內的課題發表評論文章。