Papers on medical information system published in 16 medical journals in 2013 JCR with their IF≥1 were retrieved from Web of Science(2010-2014).Social network analysis and co-word analysis of their high fre-quency key words showed that efficiency of medical information system implementation, acceptance behaviors of medical information system users, mining of medical data, application of medical information system in medical sci-ences, and application of decision support system in medical sciences were the hotspots in papers on medical infor-mation system.The authors pointed out that electronic health records, medical information system management, and application of emerging information technology in medical information system were still the study hotspots in the coming years.