title: Innovations in healthcare and medicine editorial.
abstract: This special issue editorial begins with a brief discussion on the current trends of innovations in healthcare and medicine driven by the evolution of sensing devices as well as the information processing techniques, and the social media revolution. This discussion aims to set the stage for the actual papers accepted for the special issue which are extensions of the papers presented at the InMed 2014 conference held in San Sebastian, Spain, in July 2014.
authors.affiliation: Computational Intelligence Group, Dept. CCIA, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain; ACPySS, San Sebastian, Spain; ENGINE Centre, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Graña
authors.affiliation: Computational Intelligence Group, Dept. CCIA, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain; ACPySS, San Sebastian, Spain; CISE Dept. University of Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Darya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chyzhyk
authors.affiliation: Vicomtech-IK4, Spain.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Toro
authors.affiliation: Industrial Engineering Department, Business Intelligence Research Center, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rios
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation
keywords: Computational intelligence; Information processing; Innovatoin in Medicine