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HEALTHINF is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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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
  • eHealth
  • Development of Assistive Technology
  • Electronic Health Records and Standards
  • Software Systems in Medicine
  • Pervasive Health Systems and Services
  • Clinical Problems and Applications
  • Data Visualization
  • Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
  • Practice-Based Research Methods for Healthcare IT
  • eHealth for Public Health

BIOSTEC KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Pedro Gómez VildaIndependent Researcher, Spain
Christian JuttenImages and Signal,, France
Adam KampffIndependent Researcher, Portugal
Richard ReillyTrinity College Dublin, Ireland
Vladimir DevyatkovDepartment of Information systems and telecommunications, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russian Federation
Pietro LioComputer Laboratory , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by .

SECRETARIAT

HEALTHINF Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 5436
e-mail: healthinf.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://healthinf.scitevents.org

BIOSTEC CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Jordi Solé-CasalsData and Signal Processing Group, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Spain
Ana FredInstituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), Portugal
Hugo GamboaLIBPHYS-UNL / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR

Deborah StaceySchool of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Canada

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Sergio Alvarez, Computer Science, Boston College, United States
Francois Andry, Medisys / Data Science Platform, Philips, France
Philip Azariadis, Konstantinoupoleos 1, University of the Aegean, Greece
Adrian Barb, Information Science, Penn State University, United States
Gillian Bartlett, Family Medicine, McGill University, Canada
Rémi Bastide, INU Champollion - ISIS Engineering School, University of Toulous, France
Ronald Batenburg, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Bert-Jan van Beijnum, Electrical Engineering, University of Twente, Netherlands
Riccardo Bellazzi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione, Universita di Pavia, Italy
Elia Biganzoli, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Edward Brown, Computer Science, Memorial University, Canada
David Buckeridge, McGill University, Canada
Eric Campo, S4M team, LAAS CNRS, France
James Cimino, Informatics Institute, School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
Miguel Coimbra, Department of Computer Science, IT, University of Porto, Portugal
Diane Cook, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, United States
Carlos Costa, DETI, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Ricardo J. Cruz-Correia, MEDCIDS, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Julian Dorado, Independent Researcher, Spain
Stephan Dreiseitl, Dept. of Software Engineering, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences at Hagenberg, Austria
Christo El Morr, School of Health Policy and Managmeent, York University, Canada
Christoph M. Friedrich, Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany
Ioannis Fudos, Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece
Angelo Gargantini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'informazione e metodi matematici, University of Bergamo, Italy
Alfredo Goñi, University of the Basque Country, Spain
David Greenhalgh, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Andrew Hamilton-Wright, School of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Canada
Jesse Hoey, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Chun-Hsi Huang, School of Computing, Southern Illinois University, United States
Ivan E. Ivanov, Advanced Control Systems Laboratory, Technical University Sofia, Bulgaria
Edward Jones, Computer & Information Sciences,, United States
Stavros Karkanis, Informatics, Technologial Educational Institute of Central Greece, Greece
Anastasia Kastania, Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Andreas Kerren, Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
Georgios Kontaxakis, Ingeniería Electrónica, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Baoxin Li, Computer Science & Engineering, Arizona State University, United States
Giuseppe Liotta, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, University of Perugia, Italy
Daniel Lizotte, University of Waterloo, Canada
Guillaume Lopez, Dpt of Integrated Information Technology, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Martin Lopez-Nores, Telematics Engineering, University of Vigo, Spain
Michele Luglio, Electronics Engineering, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Emilio Luque, Computer Architecture and Operating System Department, University Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB), Spain
Paloma Martínez, Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
José Luis Martínez, Computer Science, Universidade Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Alice Maynard, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Sally McClean, School Of Computing And Information Engineering, Faculty Of Computing & Engineering, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Gianluigi Me, Economics and FInance, Luiss University, Italy
Gerrit Meixner, UniTyLab, Heilbronn University, Germany
Sai Moturu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Kentucky, United States
Hammadi Nait-Charif, National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Goran Nenadic, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Shane O'Hanlon, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Ireland
José L. Oliveira, Dept. Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática, University of Aveiro, DETI/IEETA, Portugal
Rui Pedro Paiva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Chaoyi Pang, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Australia
Danilo Pani, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
José J. Pazos-Arias, Department Of Telematic Engineering, University of Vigo, Spain
Carlos E. Pereira, Electrical Engineering Department - Delet, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul - UFRGS, Brazil
Rosario Pugliese, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
Juha Puustjärvi, Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Arkalgud Ramaprasad, Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, India
Marcos Rodrigues, Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Valter Roesler, Applied Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Stefan G. Ruehm, Radiology,, United States
George Sakellaropoulos, Medical Physics, University of Patras, Greece
Ovidio Salvetti, Inst. of Information Science and Technologies - ISTI, National Research Council of Italy - CNR, Italy
Akio Sashima, Human Augmentation Research Center , AIST, Japan
Bettina Schnor, Department of Computer Science, Potsdam University, Germany
Kulwinder Singh, Division of Evidence-based Medicine, University of South Florida, United States
Paolo Spagnoletti, Centro Di Ricerca Sui Sistemi Informativi, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
Irena Spasic, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Jan Stage, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark
Kåre Synnes, Computer Science, Space and Electrical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Abdel-Rahman Tawil, Architecture Computing and Engineering, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
Francesco Tiezzi, University of Camerino, Italy
Alexey Tsymbal, Corporate Research and Technologies,, Germany
Mohy Uddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), Saudi Arabia
Aristides Vagelatos, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Egon L. van den Broek, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Rob van der Mei, Independent Researcher, Netherlands
Erik Van Mulligen, Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands
Francisco Veredas, Dpto. Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Justin Wan, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Lixia Yao, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, United States
Vera Yashina, Mathematical and Applied Problems of Image Analysis, Dorodnicyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Xiang S. Zhou, , United States
André Zúquete, IEETA, IT, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

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