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 specialized support to persons with special needs in particular.
Databases, networking, graphical interfaces, intelligent decision support systems and specialized programming languages are just a few of the technologies currently used in medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, standardization of technologies and procedures, certification, privacy are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry in general need to address in order to further promote ICT in healthcare.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

- e-Health
- Telemedicine
- Medical and Nursing Informatics
- Design and development methodologies for Healthcare IT
- Interoperability
- Semantic Interoperability
- Confidentiality and Data Security
- Knowledge management
- Databases and Datawarehousing
- Datamining
- Support for clinical decision-making
- Expert Systems in Healthcare
- Wearable Health Informatics
- Mobile technologies for Healthcare applications
- Evaluation and use of Healthcare IT
- Physiological Modeling
- Cognitive Informatics
- Affective Computing
- Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
- e-Commerce in Health Sector
- Healthcare Management Systems
- Human-Machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons
- Development of Assistive Technology systems for Independent Living
- Cognitive rehabilitation
- ICT, Ageing and Disability
- Practice based Research Methods for Healthcare IT



IMPORTANT DATES

Conference date: 20 - 23 January, 2010

Regular Paper Submission: September 04, 2009 (deadline extended)
Authors Notification (regular papers): October 15, 2009
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 26, 2009


Contacts:

HEALTHINF Secretariat

Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq.
2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal

Tel.: +351 265 520 185

Fax: +44 203 014 5436


Event Site: http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/

Event E-mail:Healthinf.secretariat@insticc.org