HIS’s scope includes:

1. Medical/health/biomedicine information resources, such as patient medical records, devices and equipment, software and tools to capture, store, retrieve, process, analyse, optimize the use of information in the health domain;
2. Data management, data mining, and knowledge discovery (in health domain), all of which play a key role in decision making, management of public health, examination of standards, privacy and security issues;
3. Development of new architectures and applications for health information systems.

HIS’s topics includes, but not limited to:

•Information systems including electronic health records, hospital information systems, data exchange
and integration
• Health service delivery, workflow
• Data mining, knowledge discovery, decision making support
• System interoperability, ontology and standardization
• Bioinformatics
• Biomedical informatics, Brain informatics, Imaging informatics
• Telemedicine, Health data management
• Health database and information-system integration
• Health information extraction, Health information services
• Health information-system modeling, design, and development
• Health information visualization
• Support tools and languages for health information-system development
• Information system interface
• Data integration, Data processing
• Data federation, sharing, and mining
• E-health care delivery
• Distributed computing, Pervasive computing
• Information storage and retrieval
• Integration of heterogeneous information sources
• Agent systems

We solicit your submissions in English for unpublished research papers on any aspect of the health information sciences and systems.