WELCOME TO IWISH 2013! Up to recent days, life sciences were dominated by descriptive methods since the high complexity of the investigated systems, the numerous influencing parameters, and the sometimes hidden interactions amongst all these factors, allowed no accurate analytical explanation of observed phenomena. The increasingly powerful computer facilities and the development of new mathematical methods enabled the establishment of simulation as an efficient tool for the analysis and prediction of highly complex systems. This modern interdisciplinary approach is highly valuable, especially in medicine, were experiments are either extremely costly or problematic from an ethic point of view. With this steadily evolving branch of modern system theory life scientists, engineers and economists have now the opportunity to develop, analyze and tune complex process models to get new scientific insight or achieve optimization in terms of functionality, efficiency, and costs. The establishment of IWISH, a dedicated workshop on simulation in healthcare, in Vienna last year, manifests this development. The high-level scientific papers reflect the high need and diversity of simulations in this scientific field. Classical physical phenomena in medicine, surgical simulators, the design of operating theatres and whole hospitals are under investigation, as well as the study of public health care improvement and infectious diseases. We hope to attract a distinguished circle of scientists, practitioners and students for presenting their latest scientific works in this field, in an atmosphere of critical, but fair discussion. The workshop shall be a forum, or the agora to give a connection to the old Greeks, to build new networks to establish fruitful collaborations and novel ideas to blossom the small plantlet seeded in Vienna, a year before, into a strong branch of modern life science. In this spirit looking forward to a successful and stimulating IWISH 2013 in Athens.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Innovative Simulation for Healthcare, IWISH 2013
LONGO, Francesco;
2013-01-01
Abstract
WELCOME TO IWISH 2013! Up to recent days, life sciences were dominated by descriptive methods since the high complexity of the investigated systems, the numerous influencing parameters, and the sometimes hidden interactions amongst all these factors, allowed no accurate analytical explanation of observed phenomena. The increasingly powerful computer facilities and the development of new mathematical methods enabled the establishment of simulation as an efficient tool for the analysis and prediction of highly complex systems. This modern interdisciplinary approach is highly valuable, especially in medicine, were experiments are either extremely costly or problematic from an ethic point of view. With this steadily evolving branch of modern system theory life scientists, engineers and economists have now the opportunity to develop, analyze and tune complex process models to get new scientific insight or achieve optimization in terms of functionality, efficiency, and costs. The establishment of IWISH, a dedicated workshop on simulation in healthcare, in Vienna last year, manifests this development. The high-level scientific papers reflect the high need and diversity of simulations in this scientific field. Classical physical phenomena in medicine, surgical simulators, the design of operating theatres and whole hospitals are under investigation, as well as the study of public health care improvement and infectious diseases. We hope to attract a distinguished circle of scientists, practitioners and students for presenting their latest scientific works in this field, in an atmosphere of critical, but fair discussion. The workshop shall be a forum, or the agora to give a connection to the old Greeks, to build new networks to establish fruitful collaborations and novel ideas to blossom the small plantlet seeded in Vienna, a year before, into a strong branch of modern life science. In this spirit looking forward to a successful and stimulating IWISH 2013 in Athens.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
