The official text for the internationally accredited Diploma in Health Informatics (DipHI) at http: //www.health-informatics.co comprises 17 course/chapters covering 350 topics and includes 473 regularly updated internet resource elinks. Health Informatics is an emerging discipline. The recording and communication of information has always been essential to the practice of medicine but we live in a global, electronic age, and never before have the opportunities, the risks and the need for information governance been so crucial and at such a scale. With content from the UK, Ireland, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand, the DipHI covers what you need to know to take on a Master's level Health Informatics degree