Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe

This volume contains the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Medical Informatics Europe 2009 (MIE) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2009. The scientific topics presented in these proceedings range from national and transnational ehealth roadmaps, health information and electronic health record systems, systems interoperability and communication standards, medical terminology and ontology approaches, and social networks to web, web 2.0, and semantic web solutions for patients, health personnel and researchers. Furthermore, they include quality assurance and usability of medical informatics systems, specific disease management and telemedicine systems, including a section on devices and sensors, drug safety, clinical decision support and medical expert systems, clinical practice guidelines and protocols, as well as issues on privacy and security. Moreover, bioinformatics, biomedical modeling and simulation, medical imaging and visualization and, last but not least, learning and education through medical informatics systems are part of the included topics.