EHEALTH2015 HEALTH INFORMATICS MEETS EHE

Traditionally, medicine has involved therapies chosen according to clinical guidelines, often arrived at through clinical trials which categorized patients into patient groups. Such clinical guidelines would dictate that all patients within a specific group should be treated in exactly the same way. More recently, the paradigm has shifted towards personalized medicine, and in future, individual treatment plans will depend more on the specific characteristics of individual patients, including genomic data.This book presents the proceedings of the 9th scientific eHealth conference, the eHealth Summit Austria, held in