14th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare, Athens, Greece, 1-3 July, 2016

NEWS / ACTA INFORM MED. 2016 AUG; 24(4): 300-301 In the period from 1st to 3rd July 2016 14th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology and Healthcare (ICIMTH 2016) was held in Athens. The Conference was organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Greek Biomedical and Health Informatics Association, in cooperation with European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and International Association of Medical Informatics (IMIA). President of Local Organizing Committee was professor John Mantas (Greece) and president of Scientific Program Committee was professor Arie Hasman (Netherlands). 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. Scientific Program Committee chaired by professor Arie Hasman received over 100 submissions, from which after reviewing accepted 68 as papers, as well 11 posters, a tutorial, a workshops, a panel and 14th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare, Athens, Greece, 1-3 July, 2016