Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems — CBMS 2011 Bristol, UK

The 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2011, took place at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, on 27th to 30th June 2011. As a special feature, instead of the traditional (since 2005) special track on “healthgrids”, i.e. grid computing for biomedicine and healthcare, latterly encompassing cloud computing also, the conference HealthGrid 2011 colocated with CBMS to the benefit of both. This was the culmination of a hope that those of us working at UWE had entertained since 2008. The invitation to CBMS was first made in Jyväskylä in 2008, became a formal proposal in Albuquerque in 2009 and was confirmed in Perth in 2010. As for HealthGrid, it seemed an opportunity not to be missed to colocate with CBMS in Bristol, only the second time the conference has been awarded to a British city (after Oxford in 2005).