Health Informatics Symposium (HIS)

September 25, 2013, Washington, DC,

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2013/HIS.html

This symposium will be held in conjunction with the annual ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (ACM BCB), which is the main flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio (ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics). The goal of this symposium is to bring together bring computational scientists together with researchers and professionals to discuss the problems in healthcare, public health, and everyday wellness. The symposium highlights the most novel technical contributions in computing oriented toward health informatics and the related social and ethical implications.

Specific topics of interest cover various facets of health informatics research, including but not limited to the following:

• Information technologies for clinical and healthcare delivery and management

• Health data acquisition, management, and visualization

• Healthcare knowledge management and decision support

• Healthcare modeling and simulation

• Data analytics, data mining, and machine learning

• Health information systems

• Healthcare communication networks and environments

• Interactions with health information technologies

• System software design and implementation

• Multi-modal data integration with an emphasis on supporting real-time analytics

• Methodological innovation focused on the generation of information and knowledge

• Data science and visualization with applications in the health and life sciences

• Natural language processing, text mining including data from Electronic Health Record

• Instrumentation of enterprise systems to create a "Learning Healthcare System

      

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper (see ACM templates). All the manuscripts should be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmbcbhis2013. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the proceedings published by ACM digital libraries. The authors of selected papers will be invited to adapt their papers for being published in a special issue of a journal (to be determined).

 

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline:     July 1, 2013

Notification of acceptance:     July 20, 2013

Camera-ready papers due:     August 1, 2013

Symposium date:                  September 25, 2013

 

Organizing Committee:

  • Maricel G. Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Co-Chair)
  • Philip Payne, Ohio State University (co-Chair)

PC members:

  • Armin R. Mikler, University of North Texas
  • Xuewen Chen, Wayne state University
  • Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro
  • Tamara Jimenez (Schneider), University of North Texas
  • Nick Anderson, University of Washington
  • James Cimino, National Institutes of Health
  • Albert Lai, Ohio State University
  • Ashish Sharma, Emory
  • Adam Wilcox, Columbia University
  • Aidong Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Cornelia Caragea, Penn State University
  • Curtney Corley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Bruce Schatz,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign