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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>HCIST 2014 <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>New paper submission deadline:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>April 25, 2014<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://hcist.scika.org) until April 25, 2014.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>Only original contributions will be accepted and submissions will be double-blind reviewed.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>All accepted short and full papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Technology series and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Industry and Poster papers will be published in a book with ISBN.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>General conference chairs: <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>- Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>Keynote speaker: <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>We look forward to welcoming you in our beautiful Troia, Portugal, next October.</FONT><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML>