Bringing together scientific papers by top medical informatics researchers from around the world, this collection provides a broad overview of medical informatics for researchers and students in health related areas as well as for those in computer science, cognitive science and biomedical informatics. This book will also be of interest to clincians, nurses and other healthcare professionals, as well as to health educators and administrators. The volume is organized into 17 chapters covering topics such as human-computer interaction, information management, decision-support, hospital information systems, imaging, bioinformatics, education and training, security and confidentiality, and evaluation. The topics and issues span all practical and theoretical, as well as empirical, aspects of medical informatics in global health.