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International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics

 

Special Issue on: "Health Engineering and Informatics"

Guest Editors:
Dr. S. Sophia Benjamin, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Dr. C. Rajan, K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology

Health informatics is a multidisciplinary field that uses health information technology to improve healthcare on its effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness, safety and quality. Health informatics bridges information technology, computer science, statistics, data analytics, management science, systems engineering, social science and other fields to improve the healthcare workflow, enable better clinical processes, support decision making, identify patients risk, and provide information to enhance patient safety and quality.

The goal of this special issue will be to publish the latest research advancement in the convergence of automation technology, biomedical engineering and health informatics. The application scenarios can cover single or multiple scenarios of health engineering such as primary care, preventive care, predictive technologies, hospitalisation, home care, and occupational health. We focus on the cross disciplinary approaches, solutions, and initiatives rather than single disciplinary ones.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Health informatics education
• Information technologies for hospital management
• Organisational impacts of health information technologies
• Public health informatics
• Biomedical data mining
• Biomedical pattern recognition
• Disease profiling and personalised treatment
• Display and visualisation of medical data
• Cloud computing and big data for healthcare
• Accessibility and Web-enabled technologies for healthcare

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

If you have any queries concerning this special issue, please email Guest Editor Dr. S. Sophia Benjamin at sophiabenjamincs@gmail.com.

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 15 January, 2018

Notification to authors: 20 February, 2018

Final versions due by: 28 March, 2018