Motivation

In information era, medicines, hospitals, doctors, patients, etc are facing to the following changes or challenges:

• fast access to the necessary health information, correct data communication between systems, based on the standards all levels;
• powerful knowledge supports based on all kinds of data bases and knowledge bases;
• automatical warning of the possible errors in the decisions or procedures in all aspects of health care;
• automatical discovery and report of the suspect and disaster patters health data;
• semi- or full- automatical enhancing the capacity of our brain to apply and manage the mass of medical knowledge and informational resources, which isincreasingly and sharply growing.

And in response to the changes or challenges above,

• the thorough or theoretic researches and deeper interpretations on the informatics of medicines, biologies, cognitive sciences, knowledge engineerings, etc are doubtlessly necessary.

It is just those fascinating subjects that make the people coming here and forming the MiForum together.