Scope

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. In the case of medical rehabilitation and assistive technology the use of ICT has had important results in the enhancement of the quality of life, contributing to a full integration of all citizens in the societies they are also part of.
HEALTHINF is a forum for debating all these aspects. Furthermore, this conference is also a meeting place for those interested in understanding the human and social implications of technology, not only in healthcare systems but in other aspects of human-machine interaction such as accessibility issues.

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

Datamining
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 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