HIMS 2018 - The 4th Int'l Conf on Health Informatics and Medical Systems

Health Informatics and Medical Systems is an important area that is at the intersection of information science, computer science, social science, behavioral science and health care. This field is mainly concerned with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, processing and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics is driven by computers, information and communication systems. It is a multi-disciplinary field that covers a wide spectrum of sub-fields. It combines the problem solving skills of computer scientists with health care professionals and health care givers. The list of topics of interest that appears below is by no means exhaustive.
Information Technologies for Healthcare Delivery and Management
Health Data Acquisition, Management and Visualization
Healthcare Knowledge Management and Decision Support
Healthcare Modeling and Simulation
Data Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning
Health Information Systems
Clinical Informatics
Integrated Data Repository
Computational Health Informatics
Community Health Informatics
Informatics for Education & Research in Health and Medicine
Imaging Science
Collaboration tools such as social media, web apps, patient education
Healthcare Communication Networks and Environments
Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
Computer-Aided Surgery
Computers in Medical Education
Haptics in Healthcare
Health Care Information Systems
Implant Technology and Systems
Interactive 3-D Models
Medical Physics
Neural, Sensory Systems and Rehabilitation
Patient Diagnosis Methods
Patient Monitoring Systems
Regenerative Medicine
Systems Physiology
Telemedicine
Therapeutic Engineering and Systems