International Conference on Health Informatics – Porto, Portugal 14-17 Jan uary 2009

HEALTHINF is organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication).

Additional information can be found at http://www.healthinf.org.

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

PUBLICATIONS

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

IMPORTANT DATES

Full Paper Submission: June 27 , 2008
Position Paper Submission: September 12, 2008
Authors Notification: October 9, 2008
Final Paper Submission and Registration: October 23, 2008
Conference date: 14 – 17 January, 2009