One mobile per child: a tractable global health intervention Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries Vol 3, No.2 2009
Open source software for health investigated - report in Dominion Post 9 February 2009
Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries
Medical e-Learning Research Group - a group for people interested in medical e-learning.
Medicine 2.0 - an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine. Otago Paper presented on Mobile Medicine 2.0
Health Informatics is in great demand according to a recent report in iHealthBeat.
The Health Informatics Discussion Forum has recently had a live chat feature added to it.
Welcome
Welcome to the Health Informatics Programme, a multi-disciplinary post-graduate teaching and research programme attached to the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand. This site has been developed as an information resource describing the objectives of the program and the teaching and research carried out by its staff and students.
For brief overview of Health Informatics, check out the item in Wikipedia about Health informatics. We also have a presence on Wikiversity.
For a comprehensive index of Health Informatics/Medical Informatics resources, go to Health Informatics World Wide - New Zealand.
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We are affiliated with a UN sanctioned task force. |
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We have received WHO grants and fellowships. |
Admission to Health Informatics
For an application form for admission to Health Informatics Post Graduate Diploma programme please follow this link.


