The main goal of these events is to provide international scientific forums for exchange of new ideas in a number of fields that interact indepth through discussions with their peers from around the world. The scope of the conference includes: (1) medical/health/biomedicine information resources, such as patient medical records, devices and equipments, software and tools to capture, store, retrieve, process, analyze, and optimize the use of information in the health domain, (2) data management, data mining, and knowledge discovery, all of which play a key role in decision making, management of public health, examination of standards, privacy and security issues, (3) computer visualization and artificial intelligence for computer-aided diagnosis, and (4) development of new architectures and applications for health information systems.