IDAL member José D. Martín is coorganizing the workshop on Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare 2013 DMBIH2013 (http://dampa.cdm.depaul.edu/events/DMBIH13/index.html) in the framework of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu) that will be held next December in Dallas (TX, USA). The workshop is coorganized with members from the German company Fresenius Medical Care, and the American universities of Yale, Oakland and DePaul. Contributions on this interesting topic are welcome.