ISDA 2009 Special session: Intelligent Systems Design and Applications in the Health Domain

- Special Session -

Intelligent Systems Design and Applications in the Health Domain

Health care government policy makers, health insurance companies, service providers and user's organizations are changing the face of the health care delivery, especially across the developed western countries, requesting that the quality and the cost efficiency of the health care, the safety and the empowerment of the patients paya an ever more crucial role in the management of the national and regional health care systems.
Improving health care quality, while reducing costs, requires the elimination of unintended and unnecessary overhead in the entire care process (prevention - diagnosis - prognosis - therapy) and the application of new and more accurate intelligent procedures for the clinical risk management.
In fact, during the last years we have been assisting to an increasing development of highly technological intelligent solutions (such as tools for Medical Knowledge Discovery, Representation and Management and Clinical Decision Support System) to foster evidence based medicine and best clinical practices. These solutions have the potential to help in reducing unreliability and errors by improving effectiveness and efficiency.

Organizers

Ovidio SALVETTI

ovidio.salvetti(AT)isti.cnr.it

ISTI-CNR

Via G. Moruzzi, 1

I-56124 Pisa, Italy

Tel. +39 050 3153124

Fax. +39 050 3152810

Ioannis TOLLIS

tollis(AT)ics.forth.gr

ICS-FORTH

N. Plastira, 100, Vassilika Vouton

GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Tel. +30 2810 391671

Fax. +30 2810 391428

Franco CHIARUGI

chiarugi(AT)ics.forth.gr

ICS-FORTH

N. Plastira, 100, Vassilika Vouton

GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Tel. +30 2810 391658

Fax. +30 2810 391428