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.

• 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
• Decision Support Systems
• Wearable Health Informatics
• Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
• Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
• Physiological Modeling
• Cognitive Informatics
• Affective Computing
• Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
• Healthcare Management Systems
• Human-Machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons
• Development of Assistive Technology
• ICT, Ageing and Disability
• Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT
• 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

José C. Príncipe, University of Florida, U.S.A.
Richard Bayford, Middlesex University, U.K.
Jan Cabri, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway
Mamede de Carvalho, Institute of Molecular Medicine - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Franco Docchio, Università degli studi di Brescia, Italy
Miguel Castelo Branco, University of Coimbra, Portugal

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
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 Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

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Emmanuel Conchon, University of Toulouse, IRIT/ISIS, France

Sergio Alvarez, Boston College, United States
Francois Andry, Optum / UnitedHealth Group Inc., United States
Hiroshi Arisawa, Yokohama National University, Japan
Philip Azariadis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Raphael Bahati, Lawson Health Research Institute, Canada
Adrian Barb, Penn State University, United States
Rémi Bastide, Jean-Francois Champollion University, France
Ronald Batenburg, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Bert-Jan van Beijnum, University of Twente, Netherlands
Elia Biganzoli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Egon L. van den Broek, Human-Centered Computing Consultancy / University of Twente / Radboud UMC Nijmegen, Netherlands
Eric Campo, LAAS CNRS, France
James Cimino, NIH Clinical Center, United States
Miguel Coimbra, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Emmanuel Conchon, University of Toulouse, IRIT/ISIS, France
Carlos Costa, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Donald Craig, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Ricardo João Cruz-Correia, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Julian Dorado, University of Coruña, Spain
Stephan Dreiseitl, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences at Hagenberg, Austria
O. Ferrer-Roca, University of La Laguna, Spain
José Fonseca, UNINOVA, Portugal
Christoph M. Friedrich, University of Applied Science and Arts Dortmund, Germany
Ioannis Fudos, University of Ioannina, Greece
Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jonathan Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Alfredo Goñi, University of the Basque Country, Spain
David Greenhalgh, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Nicolas Guelfi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Igor Gurevich, Dorodnicyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Alexander Hörbst, UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria
Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, United States
Ivan Evgeniev Ivanov, Technical University Sofia, Bulgaria
Anastasia Kastania, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Georgios Kontaxakis, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Enrique Leon, TECNALIA, Spain
Baoxin Li, Arizona State University, United States
Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy
Guillaume Lopez, The University of Tokyo, School of Engineering, Japan
Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo, Spain
Michele Luglio, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Emilio Luque, University Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB), Spain
Paloma Martínez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Alice Maynard, Future Inclusion, United Kingdom
Gianluigi Me, Università degli Studi di Roma "tor Vergata", Italy
Rob van der Mei, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gerrit Meixner, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
M. Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), Saudi Arabia
Sai Moturu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Erik M. Van Mulligen, Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States
Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Nobert Noury, University of Lyon, France
Shane O'Hanlon, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Ireland
José Luis Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Rui Pedro Paiva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Chaoyi Pang, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Australia
Danilo Pani, University of Cagliari, Italy
José J. Pazos-arias, University of Vigo, Spain
Carlos Eduardo Pereira, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul - UFRGS, Brazil
Rosario Pugliese, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
Juha Puustjärvi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Arkalgud Ramaprasad, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Marcos Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
George Sakellaropoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Nickolas S. Sapidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Akio Sashima, AIST, Japan
Bettina Schnor, Potsdam University, Germany
Arash Shaban-Nejad, McGill University, Canada
Alejandro Pazos Sierra, University of A Coruña, Spain
Kulwinder Singh, University of Calgary, Canada
Irena Spasic, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom
Jan Stage, Aalborg University, Denmark
Zoran Stevic, University in Belgrade, Serbia
Andrzej Swierniak, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Kåre Synnes, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Abdel-Rahman Tawil, University of East London, United Kingdom
Francesco Tiezzi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Ioannis G. Tollis, University of Crete, Greece
Yulia Trusova, Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the RAS", Russian Federation
Alexey Tsymbal, Siemens AG, Germany
Aristides Vagelatos, CTI, Greece
Francisco Veredas, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Lixia Yao, GlaxoSmithKline, United States
Vera Yashina, Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Xiang Sean Zhou, Siemens Medical Solutions, United States
André Zúquete, IEETA / IT / Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal