On June 5th, the Health Informatics Professional Committee of the China Society or Scientific and Technical Information and the First Health Informatics Forum were held at Nanjing University. The conference adopted the Directional invitation method to control the size of the conference, but still attracted more than 20 experts and scholars and more than 40 graduate students from the academic, industry and media fields. The participants witnessed the establishment of the Health Informatics Professional Committee, discussed the frontier and hotspots in the field of health informatics, promoted the future development of Health Informatics research in China. Professor Qinghua Zhu was appointed as the chairman of the Health Informatics Professional Committee of the China Society or Scientific and Technical Information.