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EURO Mini Conference on
Improving Healthcare:
new challenges, new approaches
Coimbra, Portugal
30 March – 1 April 2015
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 (info@minieuro2015.com).
Confirmed streams:
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Health Informatics
·
Radiotherapy Optimization
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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
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Full
Early registration |
225€ |
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Full
Late registration |
300€ |
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Student
Early registration |
100€ |
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Student
Late registration |
120€ |
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