The 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Medinfo 2010, held in Cape Town, South Africa has many forms of participation from preconference tutorials, workshops, keynotes, invited presentations, scientific presentations, panels, demonstrations, and posters. The Organizing Committee, led by Dr. Lyn Hanmer from South Africa, collaborated with the Scientific Program Committee, led by Drs. Riccardo Bellazzi from Italy and Johanna Westbrook from Australia, to sculpt an outstanding program. The Editorial Committee has tried to organize a subset of this rich content, the scientific papers and posters into the eProceedings.

We have organized the paper Proceedings into 20 chapters, where the last chapter is comprised of the abstract of posters organized by the authors self-selected theme. We have attempted to organize the scientific papers in 19 chapters starting with the individual and moving through an ever-expanding view of organization and systems. The posters are organized by conference-defined themes.

I would like to thank Dr. Henry Feldman and Eli Kaldany for their help in creating the eProceedings and Ms Christine Archuleta and Melissa Reti for diligent copy editing.

Charles Safran, MD, MS
Shane Reti, MCHCB
Heimar Marin, RN, PhD

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