[Asis-l] Call for Participation: 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012)

[Yan Zhang]

Call for Participation
2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012)
January 28-30, 2012
Miami, Florida, USA
http://www.sighit.org/ihi2012/
(mirror site: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/ihi2012/)

IHI 2012 is the flagship symposium on health informatics promoted by the
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Health
Informatics (ACM SIGHIT). IHI is designed to run as an annual showcase for
exciting and innovative research on techniques and technologies developed in
universities, hospitals, research labs, and companies all over the world.

IHI 2012 will feature about 150 contributions from 37 countries, including
keynote speeches, regular papers, short papers, demonstrations, free
tutorials, panels, extended abstracts, and doctoral consortium. Selected
regular papers and short papers will be presented in oral sessions. Other
papers and demos will be presented by the authors in an open setting,
specifically designed to encourage conversation and discussion. The
symposium will cover the breadth of problems faced by the community: health
informatics education, telemedicine, systems for decision support,
human-centered design, information retrieval techniques for health
applications, accessibility to personalized predictive modeling techniques,
and so on. A highlight of the conference is that we will give awards for the
best paper and the best student paper.

Keynote speeches:
    Biomedical Text Mining for Semantic Search and Knowledge Discovery,
Sophia Ananiadou 
    Brain-Computer Interfaces: Progress, Problems, and Possibilities,
Jonathan R. Wolpaw

Free tutorials:
    Role of Semantic Web in Health Informatics, Satya Sahoo, Amit Sheth,
Guo-Qiang Zhang
    Measuring the Similarity and Relatedness of Concepts in the Medical
Domain, Ted Pedersen, Serguei Pakhomov, Bridget T. McInnes, Ying Liu
    Assisted Living Technologies for Older Adults, Parisa Rashidi

Panels:
    Detecting and Using Document Structure, Sophia Ananiadou, Maryann
Martone, Ágnes Sándor, Hagit Shatkay, Anita de Waard
    Increasing Data Availability and Focus of Analytical Research for 4P’s
(Patient, Provider, Pharmaceutical and Payer) of Healthcare: Trends,
Opportunities and Gaps, Balaji Krishnapuram, Shusaku Tsumoto, James Golden
    Towards Data: A Human/Machine-oriented Approach of Medical Data
Collection, Shusaku Tsumoto, Mihoko Otake, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takayuki
Fujita, Yan Chow
    Social Media for Consumer Health, Yan Zhang, Guanglin Chen, Prasenjit
Mitra, John Yen

IHI 2012 reflects a collective community effort including reviewers as well
as corporate sponsors, who gave generously of their time and who provided
funds to specific areas of the symposium. The following companies and
institutions generously provided financial support: Google, Optimal
Solutions Group LLC, Philips, Indiana University, Siemens, RECCSI, and IBM
Research.

The conference hotel, Miami Beach Resort and Spa, is easily accessible by
the guests by any means of transportation. Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean
and Biscayne Bay, Miami Beach Resort and Spa seamlessly blends relaxing
luxury with the bustle and color of a Caribbean metropolis. It offers easy
access to world-famous attractions: 
"    Situated directly on the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean, in the heart of
vibrant Miami Beach, Florida
"    Just 2.5 miles from the pulsing shopping and nightlife of South Beach
"    Only 3 miles away from the famed attractions and restaurants of
downtown Miami
"    20 minutes from the Miami International Airport and 22 miles from Fort
Lauderdale International Airport

Online registration is now available at the conference website
(http://www.sighit.org/ihi2012/, mirror site:
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/ihi2012/). 

The conference co-organizers are looking forward to your visit!


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Yan Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
Phone: 512-471-9448; Fax: 512-471-3971; Office: UTA 5.434
URL: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~yanz/