In May 2022, the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) is pleased to welcome you to Nice, France, for the 32nd Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE2022).

The Conference is organized by “MCO Congress” and the Scientific Programme Committee is chaired by Professor Brigitte Séroussi from the French Association for Medical Informatics (AIM).

Developed in the 1970s, the first AI systems were essentially knowledge-based decision support systems. At this time acquiring the required knowledge was considered the major bottleneck in building such expert systems. Despite their good performance, first knowledge-based systems were never routinely used on real patients and because they were able to explain their reasoning process, most of them turned out to be more beneficial for teaching than for clinical practice.

After some « winters », AI is back with new machine learning methods that promise to improve healthcare and medicine delivery worldwide. Indeed, AI systems can improve the accuracy of diagnosis and screening for diseases, support clinical care, and assist various public health interventions, such as disease surveillance, outbreak response, and health systems management…