This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2013, held in London, UK, in March 2013. The 20 full papers presented together with 3 short papers, 3 demo papers and one poster in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover all aspects of health information sciences and systems that support the health information management and health service delivery. The scope of the conference includes 1) medical/health/biomedicine information resources, such as patient medical records, devices and equipments, software and tools to capture, store, retrieve, process, analyse, and optimize the use of information in the health domain, 2) data management, data mining, and knowledge discovery, all of which play a key role in the decision making, management of public health, examination of standards, privacy and security issues, and 3) development of new architectures and applications for health information systems.
Editors and Affiliations
Centre for Applied Informatics, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Guangyan Huang,
Jing He
School of Information System, Computing, and Mathematics, Brunel University, London, UK
Xiaohui Liu
Department of Computer Science, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Frank Klawonn
Health Economics, Primary Care and Population Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Guiqing Yao
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Information Science
Book Subtitle: Second International Conference, HIS 2013, London, UK, March 25-27, 2013. Proceedings
Editors: Guangyan Huang, Xiaohui Liu, Jing He, Frank Klawonn, Guiqing Yao
