EURO Mini Conference on Improving Healthcare

EURO Mini Conference onImproving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches

Coimbra, Portugal

30 March - 1 April 2015

www.minieuro2015.com



We would like to welcome you to Coimbra, a beautiful city in Portugal, and
its University recently recognized as World Heritage by UNESCO.


*Scope and objectives*

Recent advances in medicine allow us to live longer and healthier lives.
These advances have been made possible through the joint contribution of
very different scientific fields. Healthcare is nowadays better understood
as a multidisciplinary field, with increasing number of challenges that can
be better tackled by joint collaboration of researchers with different
scientific backgrounds.

The challenges that Healthcare is facing have not only to do with the
ability of providing better services to all (treatments, preventive
medicine, better diagnosis tools), with an increased focus on improved
personalized treatment options, but also with the need to tackle an
increased pressure felt by Healthcare systems: increased number of
patients, some of them requiring expensive treatments, with a consequent
increase in the workload for health institutions that most of the times
have to deal with important budget restrictions.

The Conference will provide a forum in which researchers coming from
different scientific disciplines can discuss and share their experience
regarding methodological approaches to tackle different Healthcare
challenges. Contributions from operational research, industrial
engineering, medicine, medical physics, management, computational biology,
bioinformatics, health economics among others are welcomed.


*Streams*

If you are interested in organizing a stream please let us know (
[email protected]).

Confirmed streams:

·         Health Informatics

·         Radiotherapy Optimization

·         Biomedicine

·         Health Logistics and Scheduling

·                  Health Economics




*Confirmed Plenary Speakers*

Sally Brailsford, University of Southampton

David Craft, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital

Ben Heijmen, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute and Erasmus University Rotterdam

Alexandre Quintanilha, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar



*Submissions:*

Authors are invited to submit an abstract with not more than 350 words or a
full paper (4 to 10 pages) to be published in the conference proceedings
(Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)).

After the conference, authors of accepted abstracts and papers can submit
extended versions of their work to special issues:

·         International Transactions in Operational Research

·    Journal of Global Optimization (subject to a sufficient number of
submissions)




*Important Dates:*

Submission of Abstracts/ Papers: 17 October 2014

Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2014

Final abstract/paper due: 09 February 2015

Early Registration Deadline: 02 March 2015




*Registration*

Full Early registration

225 EURO

Full Late registration

300 EURO

Student Early registration

100 EURO

Student Late registration

120 EURO