EURO Mini Conference on Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches Coimbra, Portugal 30 March – 1 April 2015 www.minieuro2015.com <http://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 (info@minieuro2015.com). Confirmed streams: ·Health Informatics ·Radiotherapy Optimization ·Biomedical Engineering ·Health Logistics and Scheduling _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 *23 November 2014 (Final Date!)* Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2014 Final abstract/paper due: 09 February 2015 Early Registration Deadline: 02 March 2015 _Registration_ Full Early registration 225€ Full Late registration 300€ Student Early registration 100€ Student Late registration 120€