Health Informatics and Medical Systems

This book contains the proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS'18). 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. HIMS is an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster working relationships and gain access to the latest research results.