Congress Topics
Health and medical informatics encompass a very broad field which is rapidly developing in both its research and operational aspects. The discipline has many dimensions, including social, legal, ethical and economic that will all be addressed at the Congress. The Scientific Programme Committee has identified a number of topic areas for the congress. There will be a place for contributions from the perspectives of academic research, scientific concepts and operational experiences, covering all these areas, associated concepts and related subjects. The topic areas are
- Applications and Products to Support Care - quality management, knowledge-based systems, expert systems, clinical trials, evidence based guidelines, health services research, outcomes research and measurement, decision support, epidemiological research, patient identification, EPR-CPR-EMR, laboratory data, image processing, HIS management, patient monitoring, disease management, event-based systems, minimum data sets, telemedicine, computer-supported interventions, telematics, biostatistics, diagnosis related systems, operations/resource management, management of the supply chain
- Human-Organisational Issues - managing change, human factors, communication management, organisation, legal issues (privacy, confidentiality, security), ethics, assessment-evaluation, process, user-computer interface, compliance, cognitive tasks, collaboration, implementation-deployment, diffusion, needs assessment, strategic plans, integrating plans-philosophy, unique identifiers
- Applied Technology – bio-informatics, biosignal processing, pattern recognition, mathematical models in medicine, human genome related, algorithms, Boolean logic, image processing, cryptology, human interfaces
- Data-Infrastructure related aspects – linguistics, terminology-vocabulary, data acquisition-data capture, data entry, data protection, data analysis-extraction tools, data policies, syntax, database design, classification, coding systems, standards, concept representation-preservation (clinical disciplines), indexing, language representation, lexicons, thesaurus tools, nomenclatures, modeling
- Information Technology Infrastructure - health professional workstation, networks, chip cards in healthcare, archival-repository systems for medical records (EPR-CPR-EMR), security, interfaces, distributed systems, pen-based technologies, speech recognition, user interfaces, neural networks, standards, telehealth, systems architecture
- Education and Knowledge – health/medical informatics education, computer-supported training, information management-dissemination, knowledge management, bibliographics, cognitive learning, computer aided instruction, continuing professional education, learning models, online/distance education, knowledge bases