The purpose of the International Conference on Health Informatics is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the support of persons with special needs in particular.
Databases, networking, graphical interfaces, data mining, machine learning, intelligent decision support systems and specialized programming languages are just a few of the technologies and research areas currently contributing to medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, physiological and behavioral modeling, standardization of technologies and procedures, certification, privacy and security are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry and research community in general are addressing in order to further promote ICT in healthcare. In the case of medical rehabilitation and assistive technology, research in and applications of ICT have contributed greatly to the enhancement of quality of life and full integration of all citizens into society.

HEALTHINF encourages authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, advanced prototypes, applications, systems, tools or survey papers, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers.
Special sessions are also welcome. Please contact the secretariat for further information on how to propose a special session.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Data Mining
Knowledge Management
Decision Support Systems
Interoperability
Telemedicine
Medical and Nursing Informatics
Confidentiality and Data Security
Wearable Health Informatics
Semantic Interoperability
Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
Physiological Modeling
Databases and Datawarehousing
Cognitive Informatics
Affective Computing
Human-machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons
ICT, Ageing and Disability
Design and Development of Methodologies for Healthcare IT
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
Healthcare Management Systems
E-Health
Development of Assistive Technology
Electronic Health Records and Standards
Software Systems in Medicine
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
e-Health for Public Health
Clinical Problems and Applications
Data Visualization
Pattern recognition and Machine Learning
Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT