Abstrakt
The article discuss important development in medical informatics from the past and in the present by way of examples. The word 'informatics' is discussed as well as the relationship of the disciplines like biomedical informatics, health informatics and healthcare informatics to medical informatics.
These cross-sectional disciplines form one of the bases for biomedicine and healthcare. They play the significant role in the new presented concept of the holistic informationbased healthcare.