Innovations in healthcare and medicine editorial

Manuel Graña; Darya Chyzhyk; Carlos Toro; Sebastian Rios

doi:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2016.03.003

Innovations in healthcare and medicine editorial

Comput Biol Med. 2016 May 1:72:226-8. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2016.03.003. Epub 2016 Mar 12.

Authors

Manuel Graña¹, Darya Chyzhyk², Carlos Toro³, Sebastian Rios⁴

Affiliations

¹ Computational Intelligence Group, Dept. CCIA, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain; ACPySS, San Sebastian, Spain; ENGINE Centre, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland.
² Computational Intelligence Group, Dept. CCIA, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain; ACPySS, San Sebastian, Spain; CISE Dept. University of Florida, USA.
³ Vicomtech-IK4, Spain.
⁴ Industrial Engineering Department, Business Intelligence Research Center, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

PMID: 27000205
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2016.03.003

Abstract

This special issue editorial begins with a brief discussion on the current trends of innovations in healthcare and medicine driven by the evolution of sensing devices as well as the information processing techniques, and the social media revolution. This discussion aims to set the stage for the actual papers accepted for the special issue which are extensions of the papers presented at the InMed 2014 conference held in San Sebastian, Spain, in July 2014.

Keywords: Computational intelligence; Information processing; Innovatoin in Medicine.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration*
Organizational Innovation*