This special issue contains a selection of papers presented at Medical Informatics Europe 2000 (MIE2000), organised by the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and excellently hosted by the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS). The complete proceedings of the conference have been published by IOS Press, Amsterdam (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 77). The chairpersons of the sessions selected a number of presentations that because of their quality would be appropriate for publication in a special issue of our journal. The authors were invited to submit extended versions of their paper, which then went through the normal reviewing process.
This special issue covers quite a number of different medical informatics subjects. Electronic patient records, decision support, management issues, evaluation, standardisation, organisational issues, technical issues and signal and image processing are discussed.
The guest editors consider the contributions of outstanding quality and representative of the research in medical informatics performed today in Europe
