15th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Health Care, Athens, Greece, 7-9 July, 2017

NEWS / ACTA INFORM MED. 2017 SEP; 25(3): 210-211 In the period from 7st to 9th July 2017 14th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology and Healthcare (ICIMTH 2017) was held in Athens, Greece. The conference represents one of the largest European gathering in the field of medical informatics (Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, Information Science, Health Informatics, Clinical Informatics, Public Health Informatics, Healthcare IT, Decision Support and Intelligent Systems, Diagnostic Technologies for Medical Decision Support, Formalisation of Knowledge, Ontologies, Clinical Guidelines and Standards of Healthcare, Telemedicine, Interoperability in Healthcare Systems, Imaging, Health Information Management, Knowledge Management, Health Technology Assessment, E-learning and Education, Robotics and Virtual Reality, Socio-Economic Issues, Standards, Social and Legal Issues). Major focus of conference was to present applications of Biomedical Informatics from Clinical Informatics, Health Informatics to Public Health Informatics as well as on ICT applications in the Healthcare domain. Conference was open by keynote speaker professor Christian Lovis, president of EFMI with interesting lecture’s title: “Bigdata in health: Hype, Hopes and Chaleges”. Professor Reinhold Haux, former president of IMIA was, also, interesting keynote speech with title “On Informatics Diagnostics and Informatics Therapeutics – Good Medical Informatics Research in Needed Here”. Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis had keynote lecture: “Digital Healthcare and Biomedical Informatics: the pathway to personalized medicine” and finaly, professor Mowafa Househ gave the lecture: Find your Passion, Lead with Purpose: a Health Informatician’s Guide”. During the jubilary 15th ICIMTH Conference was organized special session: CrowdHEALTH, Holistic Health Records and Big Data Analytics for 15th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Health Care, Athens, Greece, 7-9 July, 2017