Medical information science: Emerging domain of information science and technology (IST) for sophisticated health & medical infrastructure building-an overview

Information Science is one of the important interdisciplinary subjects today. It is actually dedicated to the information activities ranging from collection to dissemination with proper shape and quality. Information Science has so many dimensions and flavors out of which the integration of Medical Science and Information Science has brought to us Medical Information Science (MIS/MISc); which is also treated as Health Informatics. Health or Medical Information System (MIS) works mainly with the utilization of tools, techniques and technologies in the health systems and entities which include hospitals, clinical centers, nourishing homes, diagnostic centers, pharmacy labs and so on. This paper describes many aspects of MISc and its role, needs, challenges in the contemporary Indian scenario.