Health Informatics (HI) is an evolving socio-technical and scientific discipline that deals with the collection, storage, retrieval, communication and optimal use of health related data, information and knowledge.

Saudi Arabia has been the leader within the Middle Eastern Electronic Health (E-Health) community for over 40 years. In the early 1970's, the King Faisal Specialist Hospital was the first hospital to locally build and implement a hospital information system (HIS).

His Royal Highness Prince Mugren Bin Abdulaziz, the President of the General Intelligence and the Honorary Chairman of the Saudi Association for Health Informatics