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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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