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

› Sergio Cerutti, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
› Mário Forjaz Secca, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
› Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
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 indexed by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP.
EI already agreed to index the proceedings of HEALTHINF 2008. Proceedings of HEALTHINF 2009 and HEALTHINF 2010 are under evaluation and the proceedings of HEALTHINF 2011 will be evaluated by EI after their publication.

› Conference date: 26-29 January, 2011

› Regular Paper Submission: July 23, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (regular papers): October 01, 2010
› Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 22, 2010

› Position Paper Submission: September 27, 2010
› Authors Notification (position papers): October 20, 2010
› Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: October 29, 2010

HEALTHINF Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 5436
e-mail: healthinf.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/

Vicente Traver, ITACA, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Yves A. Lussier, University of Chicago, United States
Adrian Barb, Penn State University, United States
Bert-Jan van Beijnum, University of Twente, Netherlands
James Cimino, NIH Clinical Center, United States
Donald Craig, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Jose Fonseca, UNINOVA, Portugal
Enrique J. Gómez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
David Greenhalgh, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Tiago Guerreiro, INESC-ID, Portugal
Cigdem Gunduz-Demir, Bilkent University, Turkey
Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Georgios Kontaxakis, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Chris Nugent, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Aristides Vagelatos, RACTI, Greece
Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

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