I am greatly honored to welcome you to CRO-e-CARDIOLOGY 2014 Symposium, the scientific and expert international symposium co-organized by the Croatian Cardiac Society, Association of Cardiologists in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russian New University from Moscow.

CRO-e-CARDIOLOGY 2014 Symposium is organized as a high quality interactive and educational symposium that will cover the most interesting areas of using information technology (IT) applied in various areas of cardiology. It includes the application of IT in research, and also in daily clinical practice inside or outside the hospital environment.

The field of work and research of e-Cardiology is the promotion of specialized computer procedures in cardiovascular imaging, computer-aided discovery of knowledge, artificial intelligence, machine learning, modeling and analysis of biosignals, database, intrahospital and interhospital communication and development of predictive models. These activities provide logistical support to scientists and clinicians from different fields to cooperate on new topics and applications in cardiology.

The professional contents of CRO-e-CARDIOLOGY 2014 Symposium gives an overview of the most significant contemporary issues in electrocardiology, cardiometry, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, echocardiography and other imaging modalities, data analysis, communication services in cardiology and computing in cardiology. The Symposium is intended for cardiologists, cardiology specialists, cardiology residents, internists, anesthesiologists, medical IT experts, medical physicists and all other physicians who use IT in their daily professional and scientific work.

I look forward to seeing you in Zagreb, in Croatian Heart House.