The Health Informatics Laboratory of the Nursing Department of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was officially founded in 1993 while its scientific activity started in 1988.

The main objectives of the laboratory are both to support educational needs as well as to serve research needs in the fields of Health Informatics and its applications.

As far as its educational activity is concerned, both undergraduate and postgraduate courses of Informatics take place in the laboratory. Continuous improvement in university education and IT skills offer future nurses a powerful tool to cope in the best possible way with the growing needs of their workplace.

As far as research activity is concerned, the laboratory participates in a large number of research projects at both Greek and European level, with major projects funded by the European Union. Promoting Computer Science in Healthcare and extracting valuable conclusions published in scientific journals and conferences are the ultimate goals of laboratory research.

It is worth mentioning that the laboratory is a member of the International Association for Medical Informatics and the postgraduate programme with a specialization in Health Informatics was the first postgraduate program of the Nursing Department.

Professor John Mantas is the Director of the laboratory since its foundation until the academic year 2021-2022.

Professor Flora Malamateniou is the Director of the laboratory since the academic year 2022-2023 until today.