Community health information and its management system: a new form for the next century

The development of community health service brings a new branch of Medical Informatics, Community health care informatics and a new management system, Community Health Care Information System in the beginning of nest century. The paper first advance and explore this new concept. It states the focus of Community health care informatics as the promotion of health for the whole community. It not only gives treatment to individual patients through ways of disease management and information network, but also improves health condition of the whole community by "diagnosis of community health" and "prescription for community health". The paper also introduces the community health information system and its formation, technology, function and practical use, pointing out the crucial point of its research work to be precisely discovering the "information origin" and "three-in-one" working group.