Preface Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth

摘要

This volume of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics - Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth - Proceedings of MIE 2018 - contributes to the discussion of ongoing challenges in eHealth, digitaliza-tion, capacity building and user engagement with true inter-disciplinary and cross-domain collaboration arising for 21-century health care. The MIE conferences are the most important conference hosted by the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). The first MIE conference was hosted in Cambridge, UK in 1978 and therefore, MIE 2018 marks the 40th anniversary for the Medical Informatics Europe - MIE - conferences. Over the years, the contributions presented at the MTE conferences, presented in the IOS Press series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, has contributed to set the stage for medical informatics, health informatics and eHealth development in Europe.