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.

Edward H. Shortliffe, Arizona State University, United States
Vimla L. Patel, Arizona State University, United States
Pier Luigi Emiliani, Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” (IFAC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Maciej Ogorzalek, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Egon L. van den Broek, University of Twente, The Netherlands