>>Purpose and Scope

>>Purpose
The International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, (HIBIT), now in its fourth year (HIBIT 2009), aims to bring together academicians, researchers and practitioners who work in these popular and fulfilling areas and to create the much-needed synergy among medical, biological and information technology sectors. HIBIT is one of the few international conferences on this subject in the world; therefore international participation from all around the world is anticipated. HIBIT provides a forum for discussion, exploration and development of both theoretical and practical aspects of health informatics and bioinformatics and a chance to network with others working and researching in this area.

>>Scope
The topics of the conference include but are not limited to:
Health Informatics
• Electronic Health Records and Standards
• Evaluation Methods in Health Informatics
• Clinical Informatics and Hospital Information Systems
• Telemedicine and Mobile Applications
• Decision Support Systems and Computer Aided Diagnosis
• Health Informatics (HI) Education
• Security, Ethics and Privacy
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in HI
• Medical Signal/Image Analysis and Visualization
• Medical Imaging and Instrumentation
• Virtual Reality and Simulation
• Medical Transaction Provision Systems
Bioinformatics
• Biomolecular Sequence Analysis
• Comparative Genomics
• Biomedical Genome Research
• Microarray Informatics
• Protein Expression and Modifications
• Protein Interactions
• Protein Structure Prediction
• Biomedical Proteome Research
• Genetic Networks
• Systems Biology
• Text Mining and Information Extraction
• Evolution and Phylogeny
• Structural Bioinformatics
• Biologically Inspired Control Systems
• Computational Neuroscience