The paper introduces the development history of foreign community health informatization, and systemizes the research progress in the field of foreign community health management informatization from aspects of health data collection, analysis and utilization, use effects of information technology and improvement of the information system. It describes the application effects of information technology in macro-management of community health in different countries and sums up the implications for the development of community health informatization in China. Namely, we should further promote and standardize the application of Electronic Health Records(EHR), attach importance to the development and application of the community health management information system, introduce social resources to participating in the development of community health informatization, and strengthen the sharing and utilization of community health data.