"Advances in digital and information technology have meant that medical informatics and its associated fields are of ever-increasing importance in the modern healthcare environment. This book presents selected papers from the 64th annual conference of the German Society of Medical Information Sciences, Biometry, and Epidemiology, GMDS 2019, held in Dortmund, Germany, from 8 to 11 September 2019. The society encompasses not only medical informatics, biometry and epidemiology, but also medical bioinformatics, systems biology and health data management. The title of this year's conference is "Shaping Change - Creative Solutions for Innovative Medicine", and 38 full papers are included here. A wide variety of scientific topics are covered, including: biostatistics
healthcare IT
interoperability - standards, classification, terminology
knowledge engineering and decision support
medical bioinformatics and systems biology
patient centered care
research infrastructure
sociotechnical systems / usability and evaluation of healthcare IT. The contributors are all specialists in their field, and this book disseminates some of the innovative ideas which are urgently needed to meet the challenges facing a constantly developing digital healthcare environment"-- Provided by publisher