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.Conference Topics    Datamining    Knowledge Management    Decision Support Systems    Interoperability    Telemedicine    Medical and Nursing Informatics    Confidentiality and Data Security    Wearable Health Informatics    Semantic Interoperability    Therapeutic Systems and Technologies    Physiological Modeling    Databases and Datawarehousing    Cognitive Informatics    Affective Computing    Human-Machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons    ICT, Ageing and Disability    Design and development methodologies for Healthcare IT    Mobile technologies for Healthcare applications    Evaluation and use of Healthcare IT    Healthcare Management Systems    E-Health    Development of Assistive Technology    Electronic Health Records and Standards    Software Systems in Medicine    Pervasive Health Systems and Services    Clinical problems and applications    Data Visualization    Pattern recognition and Machine Learning    Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT    e-Health for Public HealthIMPORTANT DATESConference date: 11-14 February, 2013Regular Paper Submission: July 20, 2012Authors Notification (regular papers): October 23, 2012Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: November 13, 2012