The Special Session on EHEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS will be held at the 22nd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST) scheduled on the 13-15 October, 2016 in Druskininkai, Lithuania.

SCOPE
The purpose of the Special Session on eHealth Information Systems is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine. Databases, intelligent decision support systems and healthcare management systems are just a few of the technologies currently used in medical informatics. This special session will present studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on the current challenges, directions, trends and opportunities associated with eHealth information systems and their supporting technologies. We invite you to submit a broad range of contributions related to the latest achievements in information systems and software technologies related to eHealth, biomedical and health informatics.

TOPICS
Topics of the special session include :
- Electronic health record (EHR) systems
- Healthcare Management Systems
- eHealth knowledge management
- Patient data security, privacy and reliability
- Performance evaluation of eHealth systems
- Quality of eHealth Information Management Systems

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously. All papers will be peer-reviewed the ICIST-2016 Program Committee and judged with respect to their quality, originality, and relevance. For further details, please consult the conference web pages.

PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will appear in the ICIST Conference Proceedings Volume (published by Springer as a part of CCIS series) and submitted for indexing to Thomson Reuters ISI. Selected authors of best papers will be also invited to submit extended versions of their papers to Information Technology and Control journal (ISSN 1392-124X; Thomson Reuters ISI Impact factor 0,623 (2014)).

IMPORTANT DATES
01 05 2016 – Submission of papers
05 06 2016 – Notification of papers acceptance
23 06 2016 – Final manuscripts due

SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR
Prof. Rolf Engelbrecht
European Federation for Medical Informatics- Health
Information Management Europe
ProRec Germany
engelbrecht@efmi.info

CO-CHAIRS
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytenis Punys
Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Prof. Giedrius Vanagas
Academy of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health, Lithuania

SPONSORED AND SUPPORTED BY
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU)
European Federation for Medical Informatics – Health
Information Management Systems (EMFI-HIME)
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU)

CONFERENCE CONTACTS
E-mail: icist@ktu.lt
Web site: http://icist.if.ktu.lt/

More information and registration on http://icist.if.ktu.lt/