Nowadays ICTs are being developed to achieve the following objectives:
– To integrate heterogeneous systems;
– To develop frameworks to make all data meaningful, accessible and available everywhere and permanently;
– To develop AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data Collectors) systems;
– To develop intelligent systems to support clinical and management decisions;

Main areas and topics:

A. Research Issues
– Computers and Primary Care
– Clinical Data Visualisation Standards
– e-Health Architectures
– Healthcare Data Architecture and Terminology Standards
– Federated Electronic Health Records
– Personalized Medicine
– Health Informatics and Education
– Human Computer Interaction
– Infrastructure and Architecture
– Internet and Medicine
– Interoperability issues
– IT and Patient Care
– Nursing Informatics
– RFID and localization techniques
– Usability and Ubiquity in e-Health
– e-Health Virtual Communities
– Business Process Management Systems
– Second Life for Healthcare Support and Education

B. Management Issues
– Case Studies
– Management Change
– Confidentiality and Privacy
– e-Health Collaborative Strategies and Techniques
– e-Training
– Healthcare Management Dashboards
– Legal issues
– Balanced scorecards models to improve Hospital Performance and Productivity
– Business Intelligence in Healthcare
– e-Health to improve Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety.
– Healthcare Information Systems Regulatory issues
– Security in e-Health
– Service Models
– Social implications
– Stakeholders involvement

C. Applications
– Clinical Information Systems
– Data Mining and Clinical Studies
– Medical Guidelines
– e-Health Decision Support Systems
– e-Logistics and e-Pharmacy
– Intelligent Medical Systems
– Mobile Applications
– Patient Electronic Health Records
– Healthcare Portals to inform and connect Patients with Physicians
– Patients and Public Health
– Social Networks in Healthcare contexts
– e-Health Marketing
– e-Procurement and e-Commerce
– Telemedicine
– Automatic Identification and Data Collector Systems
– Unified data processing and communication Systems
– Web Based Applications
– e-Health