The Special Session on EHEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS will be held at the 25th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST) scheduled on the 10-12 October, 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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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
- eHealth and telemedicine systems in clinical practice
- eHealth and telemedicine practice in health research
- Health care management issues using eHealth

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 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 Clarivate Analytics ISI.
Previous Proceedings:
ICIST 2014: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319119571
ICIST 2015: http://www.springer.com/br/book/9783319247694
ICIST 2016: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319462530
ICIST 2017: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-67642-5
ICIST 2018: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-99972-2

Authors of best papers will be also invited to submit extended versions of their papers to Information Technology and Control journal (ISSN 1392-124X; Clarivate Analytics WoS Impact factor 0.800 (2017)).

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: https://icist.ktu.edu/