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The medical social informatics is a framework that merging from medical epidemiology and social informatics, focus in society for epidemic based problems in order to prevent the emerging outbreak disease and save as many as people alive has not been established. Public health is primarily concerned with the prevention of disease in human population. It differs from clinical medicine both in its emphasis on prevention rather than treatment, and in its focus on populations rather than individual patients. Epidemiology is the branch of the public health which attempts to discover the causes of disease in order to make disease prevention possible. Epidemiology methods can be used in other contexts, for instance in clinical research as well. The epidemiology of disease has been developed well by previous studies since World War II. It has been traced from Hippocrates through John Graunt, William Farr, Jon Snow and others [1]. There are many cases in epidemiology that can be solved, for instance, the case that describes the predictors of typhoid fever with complications on disaster affected area [2], the revised recommendation for tetanus referal systems after earthquake [3] and the extensive critically ill patients transport monitoring strategies being implemented in a city recently affected by a massive disaster [4]. All those cases can be analyzed in epidemiology study. In other words, the epidemiology focuses in public health practice for the purpose of social welfare. In the general context, epidemiology has been defined by Last (1988) as, “the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to control of health problems”.

Nowadays, the information and communication technology has been developed very well and more sophisticated. There are many researchers has been worked hard to develop such a systems which might help for the human activities. One of the information branch studies is the theory of social informatics (SI) that has been developed by Ohta and Yamamoto on 1995. Social informatics is an interdisiplinary study to explore a function of information in social systems, and to design a system for information exchange in society. The social informatics aims to promote welfare of human beings in a society. Focusing on information, SI researchers observe various aspects of human behaviour and social systems, and examine various information systems, an administrative informations systems, a life information systmes and so on [5]. The two typhical science and knowledge as described above, in general, epidemiology and social informatics are having the same purpose that is to reach and promote welfare for human being in society. The integration of those two methodologies between epidemiology and SI can be possibly to afford a new framework, here and after will be proposed as medical social informatics framework which will be focused on the utilization of SI for prevention and curative strategy on clinical epidemic based problems in public health.