Topics covered by IRI-HI 2015 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:

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