Preface of the 3rd international workshop on (Meta)Modelling for Healthcare Systems (MMHS 2018)

MMHS 2018 was arranged as a joint workshop with the HealthTech seminar at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway, June 13-15. It was the third workshop in the MMHS workshop series focusing on modeling and metamodeling for healthcare systems. E-health is one of the fastest growing ICT markets. According to Mordor Intelligence the market share for e-health was estimated as USD 124 billion in 2016 and is projected to reach USD 244 billion by 2021, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 14.56% during the forecast period. Major software and ICT infrastructure companies are currently investing for this growth. Several modelling approaches have been successfully implemented in the healthcare domain, such as business process modelling, domain specific languages for representation of health resources (HL7 FHIR), and conceptual modelling with archetypes (OPEN EHR), However, there is still a huge potential for metamodelling and model based software engineering to tackle problems such as software interoperability, formalization and simulation of work processes and clinical guidelines, domain specific abstractions, etc. The goal of this workshop was to create a forum for healthcare system developers and researchers on the one side and modeling researchers and the modeling community on the other.