Contains the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2012, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in May 2012. This volume is completed by an invited paper on "Information Systems and Business and Information Systems Engineering."

This open access book establishes a dialog among the medical and intelligent system domains for igniting transition toward a sustainable and cost-effective healthcare. The Person-Centered Care (PCC) positions a person in the center of a healthcare system, instead of defining a patient as a set of diagnoses and treatment episodes. The PCC-based conceptual background triggers enhanced application of Artificial Intelligence, as it dissolves the limits of processing traditional medical data records, clinical tests and surveys. Enhanced knowledge for diagnosing, treatment and rehabilitation...