Health Information Science and Systems

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Editor-in-Chief

  • Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University

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Health Information Science and Systems is accepting submissions; please use the online submission system to submit your manuscript. For all enquiries about the journal, please contact: editorial@hissjournal.com.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

  • Prof Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia

Managing Editor

  • Dr Jing He, Victoria University, Australia

Deputy Editors

  • Prof Elizabeth A Krupinski, University of Arizona, United States of America
  • Prof Xiaohui Liu, Brunel University, United Kingdom

Associate Editors

  • Dr Rafat R Ansari, NASA Glenn Research Center, United States of America
  • Prof Bernd Blobel, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany
  • Prof Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia
  • Prof Stefan J Darmoni, Rouen University, France
  • Dr Frank Eisenhaber, BioInformatics Institute of A*STAR, Singapore
  • Dr M. Chris Gibbons, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, United States of America
  • Dr Leonard Goldschmidt, Stanford University Medical School, United States of America
  • Dr Yogesan Kanagasingam, Australian e-Health Research Centre and CSIRO, Australia
  • Prof Sun Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea
  • Prof Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, United States of America
  • Prof Yi Pan, Georgia State University, United States of America
  • Prof Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Prof Laura M Roa, University of Sevilla, Spain
  • Prof Neil R Smalheiser, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America
  • Prof Michael Steyn, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Australia
  • Dr Jianhua Sun, Sino Medical Sciences Technology Inc, China
  • Prof Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China
  • Prof Wei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America
  • Prof Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
  • Prof Osmar Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada
  • Prof Aidong Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, United States of America
  • Prof Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Aims & scope

Health Information Science and Systems is a multidisciplinary journal that aims to integrate computer science/information technology with health science and services, embracing information science research coupled with topics related to the modeling, design, development, integration, and management of health information systems.

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Announcements

Health Information Science and Systems is pleased to announce the 1st International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2012) to be held in Beijing in April 2012.

HIS 2012 aims to integrate computer science/information technology with health sciences & services, embracing information science research coupled with topics related to the modeling, design, development, integration, and management of health information systems.

A supplement will be published in Health Information Science and Systems containing selected papers presented at HIS2012.

Health Information Science and Systems is pleased to announce the the 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb2012) to be held in Kunming, China in April 2012.

APWeb is a leading international conference on research, development and applications of web technologies, database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xian (2000), Changsha (2001), Xian (2003), Hangzhou (2004), Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006) Huangshan (2007), Shenyang (2008), Suzhou (2009), Busan (2010), Beijing (2011).

Editor's profile

Yanchun Zhang

Yanchun Zhang
Professor Yanchun Zhang is the Director of the Centre for Applied Informatics at Victoria University, Australia and is the winner of 2005 Victoria University Vice-Chancellor's Medal for Excellence in Research. His research interests include database and information systems, distributed databases, web and internet technologies, web information systems, web data management, web mining, web search, web services, and e-Research. He has published over 200 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings, and authored/edited over a dozen books, proceedings and journal special issues.

In addition to being Editor-In-Chief of Health Information Science and Systems, he is also co-Editor-in-Chief of World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, the Editor of the Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies Book Series and the Chairman of Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) Society. He is the Australian representative of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP)'s Working Group WG6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering and a communication expert panel member of Cheung Kong Scholars Program from the Ministry of Education of China (since 2006).

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