SCOPE

The purpose of the International Conference on Health Informatics is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the specification, design, development and application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the support of persons with special needs in particular. Big data, networking, graphical interfaces, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition and intelligent decision support systems are just a few of the technologies and research areas currently contributing to medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, physiological and behavioral modeling, standardization of health records, procedures, and technologies, certification, privacy and security are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry and research community in general are addressing to further promote ICT in healthcare. In the case of medical rehabilitation, assistive technologies and home monitoring, research in and applications of ICT have contributed greatly to the enhancement of quality of life and full integration of all citizens into society. 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

Assistive Technologies, Home Monitoring
eHealth
eHealth Applications
Electronic Health Records and Standards
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
Healthcare Management Systems
Human-Machine Interfaces
ICT, Ageing and Disability
Interoperability and Data Integration
Application of Health Informatics in Clinical Cases
Medical Informatics
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
Physiological and Behavioral Modeling
Software Systems in Medicine
Therapeutic Systems and Rehabilitation Technologies
Cognitive Informatics
Wearable Health Informatics
Big Data in Healthcare
Wellbeing Informatics
Confidentiality and Data Security
Data Mining and Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Databases and Datawarehousing
Decision Support Systems
Design and Development of Methodologies for Healthcare IT
Patient Portals

BIOSTEC KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Roy Ruddle, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Helena Canhão, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Petia Radeva, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

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.