Topics covered by IRI-HI 2012 include but are not limited to work in progress as well as cutting-edge and novel findings on the latest trends and developments in health informatics, encompassing areas such as:

1. Clinical and hospital human resource management and performance analysis.
2. Computer aided diagnosis.
3. Computational biomedicine, genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolimics, sociogenomics.
4. Controlled and optimized utilization of resourc.
5. Data analysis and disease biomarker prediction.
6. Data mining and machine learning techniques in health informatics.
7. Drug design, disease diagnosis and control.
8. E-health and web-based information services.
9. Evaluation and use of information technology in healthcare.
10. Healthcare applications of mobile and pervasive technologies.
11. Human-computer interaction.
12. Future developments in technologies and applications.
13. Intelligent Health Information Systems & Decision Support Systems.
14. Integration and sharing of heterogeneous health information systems.
15. Integration and sharing of heterogeneous health data sources.
16. Information and image retrieval.
17. Language parsing methods in biomedicine.
18. Modelling, simulation and evaluation of healthcare services.
19. Mobile solutions for sharing information in healthcare services.
20. Patient tracking and monitoring: spatio-temporal models.
21. Privacy protection and data security in health informatics systems.
22. Process management and collaborative work.
23. Reuse in Health Information System development and maintenance.
24. Signal processing and streaming databases.
25. Spread and control of epidemics.
26. Social network modelling and analysis in health informatics.
27. User interfaces and visualization for health informatics systems.