The advent of computer and communication technologies and the advances in the Information and communication Technologies (ICT) have revolutionized the scope of health science disciplines and emerged as a great potential to surpass the conventional barriers such as time and space that one time inhibited the communication for patient care. This paper outlines the areas of application of ICT in health care profession like management, Hospital management information systems Epidemiological surveillance, Telemedicine etc. It also focuses the need to ICT learning, barriers using ICT in Medical informatics.
