With the wide spread of hospitals and other medical institutions in Egypt , the need for computer-based systems seems to be indispensable. However, due to the lack of properly qualified graduates the vast majority of work in the medical sector is still manually done. To qualify graduates to work effectively in this area this master program is introduced.

Medical Informatics (MI) is the scientific discipline that contributes to improving healthcare by effectively utilizing information technologies. The field broadly encompasses all areas of application in health, clinical practice, and biomedical research. Usually MI is defined as has four "cornerstones" of the discipline. Three are grounded in information technology -- representing clinical knowledge, acquiring and representing clinical data, and integrating information to support clinical decisions. The fourth cornerstone is managing change in clinical organizations. With skills in these four areas, medical informatics support the specification, development, implementation, and effective use of clinical systems, including electronic medical record systems and interdisciplinary care management systems. Medical informatics is considered as an essential and pervasive element in all healthcare activity. It is also the name given to an academic discipline developed and pursued over the past decades by a world-wide scientific community engaged in advancing and teaching knowledge about the application of information and communication technologies to healthcare - the place where health, information and computer sciences, psychology, epidemiology and engineering intersect.