International Health Informatics Symposium, Virginia, Nov 2010

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI)

CALL FOR PAPERS

IHI 2010

November 11-12, 2010

Arlington, Virginia

http://ihi2010.sighi.org

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the 2010 ACM

International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010).

IHI 2010 is ACM's premier community forum concerned with the application of

computer and information science principles as well as information and

communication technology to problems in healthcare, public health, the delivery

of healthcare services and consumer health informatics aspects, and finally, the

related social and ethical issues on the use of computing technology in the

health informatics domain.

IHI 2010 is primarily interested in serving as a venue for the discussion of

innovative technical contributions highlighting end-to-end applications,

systems, and technologies, even if available only in prototype form (where a

system is not deployed in production mode and/or evaluation may be performed by

giving examples). We strongly encourage authors to submit their original

contributions describing their algorithmic contributions, methodological

contributions, and well-founded conjectures providing whenever possible an

application-oriented context. A paper does not have to be comprehensive and can

focus on a single aspect.

Contributions in the realm of social and behavioral issues might include

empirical studies of health-related information use and needs, socio-technical

studies on the implementation and use of health information technology, studies

on health informatics in the context of community impact and implications,

studies on public policies on leveraging health informatics infrastructure,

among others.

Specific topics of interest for this conference cover various facets of health

informatics research, including but not limited to the following:

- Accessibility and Web-enabled technologies

- Analytics applied to direct and remote clinical care

- Assistive and adaptive ubiquitous computing technologies

- Bio-surveillance

- Brain computer interface

- Cleaning, preprocessing, and ensuring quality and integrity of medical records

- Comparative effectiveness research

- Computational support for patient-centered and evidence-based care

- Consumer and clinician health information needs, seeking, sharing and use

- Consumer health and wellness informatics applications

- Continuous monitoring and streaming technologies

- Data management, privacy, security, and confidentiality

- Display and visualization of medical data

- E-commerce in health informatics

- E-communities and networks for patients and consumers

- E-healthcare infrastructure design

- E-learning for spreading health informatics awareness

- Engineering of medical data

- Evaluation of health information system

- E-visit system

- Experience of building health information system

- Health informatics education

- Health information system framework and enterprise architecture in the

developing world

- Health IT project management

- Health software design

- Health system simulation

- High-performance computing in healthcare

- Human-centered design of health informatics systems

- Information retrieval for health applications

- Information technologies for the management of patient safety and clinical

outcomes

- Innovative applications in electronic health records (e.g., ontology or

semantic technology, using continuous biomedical signals to trigger alerts)

- Intelligent medical devices and sensors

- Issues involving interoperability and data representation in healthcare

delivery

- Keyword and multifaceted search over structured electronic health records

- Knowledge discovery for improving patient-provider communication

- Large-scale longitudinal mining of medical records

- Medical compliance automation for patients and institutions

- Medical recommender system (e.g., medical products, fitness programs)

- Multimodal medical signal analysis

- Natural language processing for biomedical literature, clinical notes, and

health consumer texts

- Novel health information systems for chronic disease management

- Open-source software in healthcare

- Optimization models for planning and recommending therapies

- Personalized predictive modeling for clinical management (e.g., trauma,

diabetes mellitus, sleep disorders, substance abuse)

- Physiological modeling

- Public health informatics

- Quality assurance

- Semantic Web, linked data, ontology, and healthcare

- Sensor networks and systems for pervasive healthcare

- Social studies of health information technologies

- Survival analysis and related methods for estimating hazard functions

- System software for complex clinical studies that involve combinations of

clinical, genetic, genomic, imaging, and pathology data

- Systems for cognitive and decision support

- Technologies for capturing and documenting clinical encounter information in

electronic systems

- Telecare

- Telemedicine

- User-interface design issues applied to medical devices and systems

Each contribution will be carefully evaluated by a set of reviewers, including

experts with multidisciplinary experience spanning computing, information

science, social and behavioral sciences, public health, medicine, and nursing as

appropriate, to ensure that proper and comprehensive peer-review analysis and

feedback can be provided to authors. Submissions will be judged on validity,

originality, technical strength, practical and clinical significance, quality of

presentation, and relevance to the conference topics.

Because of IHI's multidisciplinary nature, the review process will include at

least a computing expert and a health expert as well as a review editor to

reconcile the evaluation, making a single recommendation to the Program

Committee Co-Chairs. This process is designed to ensure that experts from

multiple areas can assess the importance and validity of the work. Therefore, we

encourage submissions from a variety of fields where in-depth

application-centric ideas addressing important problems in health informatics

are discussed.

The conference will accept both regular and short papers. Regular papers (6-10

pages in length) will describe more mature ideas, where a substantial amount of

implementation, experimentation, or data collection and analysis will be

described. Short papers (1-5 pages) can be less formal and will describe

innovative ideas where a lesser degree of validation and implementation have

occurred. All papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. The best papers of

IHI 2010 will also be considered for journal publication in a special issue of

Springer's Journal of Medical Systems. Depending on the availability of time and

space, not all papers will be given an oral presentation slot. Papers not

selected for oral presentation will be available as posters. The conference

organizers will work on ensuring that poster sessions are well attended and have

a vibrant discussion environment.

Submitted papers must not have appeared in, or be under consideration for,

another conference, workshop, journal, or other target of publication.

All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled

electronically. Submissions must adhere to the following formatting

instructions:

" Papers must adhere to the ACM Proceedings Format available for LaTex,

WordPerfect, WordPerfect 9, and Word. Changing the template's font size,

margins, inter-column spacing, or line spacing is prohibited. Each paper must be

submitted as a single PDF file, formatted for 8.5 " x 11 " paper.

" The length of submission depends on the type of submission:

- Regular papers must be 6-10 pages long.

- Short papers may be at most 5 pages long.

" Each paper must provide an appendix (which is excluded from the page limit)

indicating the preferred review approach, including:

- The preferred allocation of reviewing expertise. This can be done by electing

the primary and secondary focus of the paper (e.g., Computing, Information

Science, Medicine, Nursing, and Social/Behavioral Science).

- A bulleted list with up to 3 topics covered in the paper (from the list of

conference topics presented above)

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: June 2, 2010 11:30pm EST

Paper submission deadline: June 4, 2010 11:30pm EST

Notification of acceptance: August 6, 2010 11:30pm EST

Camera-ready copy due: August 16, 2010 11:30pm EST

General Chair

Ümit Çatalyürek, Ohio State University (catalyurek.1 at osu dot edu)

Honorary General Chair

Gang Luo, IBM Research (luog at us dot ibm dot com)

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Henrique Andrade, IBM Research (hcma at us dot ibm dot com)

Neil R. Smalheiser, University of Illinois - Chicago (neils at uic dot edu)