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.
Conference topics:
- eHealth
- Online medical applications
- Telemedicine
- Medical and Nursing Informatics
- Confidentiality and Data Security
- Interoperability
- Wearable Health Informatics
- Semantic Interoperability
- Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
- Physiological Modeling
- e-Commerce in the Health Sector
- Hospital Management Systems
- Databases and Datawarehousing
- Datamining
- Decision Support Systems
- Expert Systems in Healthcare
- Cognitive Informatics
- Affective Computing
- Human-Machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons
- Development of Assistive Technology for Independent Living
- ICT for Cognitive Disabilities
- ICT, Ageing and Disability
- Socio-Economic Issues of Assistive Technology
- Practice Based Research Methods for Assistive Technology
Important dates:
Full Paper Submission: June 27, 2007
Authors Notification: October 2, 2007
Final Paper Submission and Registration: October 23, 2007
Conference date: 28 - 31 January, 2008
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.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.healthinf.org.