l Makki Health Informatics Journal is an open-access scientific peer-review journal publishing. The Al Makki Health Informatics Journal focuses on exchanging information relating to intelligent computing and health informatics applied in industry, hospitals, government, and universities. All articles should include a validation of the idea presented, e.g. through case studies, experiments, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Two types of papers are accepted: (1) A short paper that discusses a single contribution to a specific new trend or a new idea, and; (2) A long paper that provides a survey of a specific research trend using a systematic literature review (SLR) method, as well as a traditional review method. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Electronic health record E-Health Information Medical Image Processing & Techniques Data Mining in Healthcare Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Mobile applications for patient care Medical Image Processing & Techniques Hospital information systems Document handling systems Electronic medical record systems Standardization, and systems integration ICT in health promotion programmes e-health Guidelines and protocols E-learning & education in healthcare Telemedicine Software- Portals-Devices & Telehealth Public health & consumer informatics Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery in Medicine ICT for Patient empowerment ICT for Patient safety Medical Databanks-Databases & Knowledge Bases Healthcare Quality assurance Nursing Informatics Evaluation & Technology Assessment Home-based eHealth Health Management Issues Health Research Health Economics Issues Statistical Method for Computer Medical Decision Support Systems Medical Informatics or medicine in general Organizational, economic, social, clinical impact, ethical and cost-benefit aspects of IT applications in health care.