HIS’s topical coverage includes(but is not restricted to, the following subjects):
•Information systems including electronic health records, hospital information systems, data exchange
and integration
• Health service delivery, workflow
• Data mining, knowledge discovery, decision making support
• System interoperability, ontology and standardization
• Bioinformatics
• Biomedical informatics
• Brain informatics
• Telemedicine
• Health data management
• Health database and information-system integration
• Health information extraction
• Health information services
• Health information-system modeling, design, and development
• Health information visualization
• Support tools and languages for health information-system development

The 1st International Conference on Health Information Science also encourages research work on all fundamental issues relating to database and information systems within the health domain. The following are some sample topics of interest within the context of health information science:
• Information system interface
• Data integration
• Data processing
• Data federation, sharing, and mining
• E-health care delivery
• Distributed computing
• Pervasive computing
• Information storage and retrieval
• Innovative applications
• Integration of heterogeneous information sources
• Agent systems