Building Health and Social Care Systems for the Future: Demographic Changes, Digital Age and Human Factors

APERGOHEPS 2019 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 3rd - 5th, July 2019, at Hotel Marriot and the topic of this 6th edition of HEPS is “Building Health and Social Care Systems for the Future: Demographic Changes, Digital Age and Human Factors”.

Paper proposal submission deadline was extended until 4th of February (https://www.heps2019.com/index.php/call-for-papers).

HEPS Topics

  • Healthcare Ergonomics and Human Factors;
  • Ergonomics and Human Factors in Healthcare Quality;
  • Ergonomics and Human Factors in Primary Care;
  • Occupational Health and Safety;
  • E-ergonomics and e-occupational health services;
  • Patient Safety;
  • Infection Control;
  • Errors in Healthcare and Patient Safety;
  • Healthcare Systems Design;
  • Social Systems Design;
  • Organizational Design of healthcare systems;
  • Resilience in Healthcare Systems;
  • Technologies and Healthcare Systems;
  • Patients Experiences / Patients Participation / Involvement;
  • Demographic challenges and patient safety;
  • Innovation in healthcare.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in electronic format using our conference paper submission system.


HEPS 2019

Peer-review accepted papers will be published as chapters in Springer Edited Books. Each chapter will have DOI and the proceedings book will be indexed at Ei Compendex, ISI, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.

A selection of accepted and registered authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to be published by WORK.

More information can be found on the conference website: http://heps2019.com

Endorsed by FEES