HEALTHINF is organized 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. Additional information can be found at http://www.healthinf.biostec.org.


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


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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


PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer.



SECRETARIAT

HEALTHINF Secretariat
Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq.
              2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5436
Email: Healthinf.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.healthinf.biostec.org


VENUE

Well known worldwide for its wine, Porto is one of the most ancient European cities. It was born and developed from the northern bank of the Douro river (i.e. the “river of Gold”) during the Middle Ages. One of the most significant aspects of Porto and its historical centre is its landscape, combining harmony with the urban structure and presenting a frame of rare beauty. The city was classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1996. When discovering Porto, you will find many surprises. Besides its welcoming and conservative environment, Porto is also contemporary and artistic. This is shown not only in the streets, architecture, monuments and museums but also in the terraces, restaurants and leisure and shopping areas.


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Ana Fred, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal
Hugo Gamboa, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Luis Azevedo, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Ana Rita Londral, ANDITEC,Portugal


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Osman Abul, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Abdullah N. Arslan, University of Vermont, United States
Arnold Baca, University of Vienna, Austria
Sara Carrasqueiro, Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal
Anna Divoli, University of Chicago, United States
Adrie Dumay, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Netherlands
Mourad Elloumi, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Wendy Filsell, Unilever Information Group, United Kingdom
Alexandru Floares, SAIA, Romania
Jose Fonseca, UNINOVA, Portugal
David Greenhalgh, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Tiago Guerreiro, Inesc-id, Portugal
Cigdem Gunduz-Demir, Bilkent University, Turkey
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, United States
Stavros Karkanis, Technologial Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece
Andreas Kerren, Vaxj University, Sweden
Ina Koch, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Germany
Georgios Kontaxakis, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Athina Lazakidou, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Feng-Huei Lin, Institute of Biomed. Eng., National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Dan Mandru, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
Adele Marshall, Queens University, United Kingdom
Alice Maynard, Future Inclusion, United Kingdom
Boleslaw Mikolajczak, University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States
Ahmed Morsy, Cairo University, Egypt
Chris Nugent, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Oleg Okun, Precise Biometrics AB, Sweden
Chaoyi Pang, Australian e-Health Research Centre, Australia
Leif Peterson, The Methodist Hospital, United States
Göran Petersson, Kalmar University, Sweden
Axel Rasche, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Germany
Marcos Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Stefan G. Ruehm, UCLA Radiology, United States
George Sakellaropoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Nickolas Sapidis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Boris Shishkov, IICREST, Bulgaria
Iryna Skrypnyk, University Of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Barry Smith, State University of New York at Buffalo, United States
John Stankovic, University of Virginia, United States
Adrian Tkacz, BioMedical-IT, Poland
Ioannis Tsamardinos, University of Crete, Greece
Hassan Ugail, School of Informatics, United Kingdom
Aristides Vagelatos, RACTI, Greece
Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Y-T Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jana Zvarova, Institute of Computer Science Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic