[Asis-l] CFP: ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI)

[Barbara Wildemuth]

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI)
CALL FOR PAPERS

IHI 2010
November 11-12, 2010
Washington, DC
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 technical contributions highlighting end-to-end applications, systems, 
and technologies, even if available only in prototype form. Therefore, we 
strongly encourage authors to submit their original contributions 
describing their algorithmic and methodological contributions providing an 
application-oriented context.

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
-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
-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
-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.

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

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CALL FOR DEMOS
1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010)

IHI 2010
November 11-12, 2010
Washington, DC
http://ihi2010.sighi.org

SCOPE OF THE DEMO TRACK

We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the demo track of 
the 2010 ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010).

The IHI demo track is an exciting and highly interactive way to demonstrate 
your health informatics system or application. Because of IHI's focus on 
end-to-end systems, whereby applied informatics is used to address the 
needs of health and healthcare applications, demos of innovative systems 
are solicited, which illustrate practical research or engineering 
contributions in an interesting and interactive manner.

The demo program will be featured prominently in the conference program and 
should be seen as a vehicle for researchers, practitioners, and 
commercial/industrial/non-profit institutions to showcase innovative new 
technologies or applications in health informatics.

The demo review process will look for practical uses of technology and also 
for a "wow" factor in all submissions. We encourage the description of 
early prototypes as long as they clearly present a coherent, end-to-end 
view of what the application might become once it gets deployed in 
production.

A submission proposal includes a demo paper and can optionally include a 
demo video, whose URL should be referred to in the textual demo description 
for reviewers to take into consideration when analyzing the submission. 
Note that the demo paper should differ from regular papers in several 
important aspects. First, it should clearly describe the overall 
architecture of the system or technology demonstrated. Second, the paper 
should put great emphasis on the motivation of the work, on the 
applications of the presented system or technology, and on the novelty of 
the work. Third, the proposal should clearly describe the demo scenario. In 
particular, it should describe how the demo audience can interact with the 
demo system, in order to obtain understanding of the underlying technology. 
For demos running over the web, a back-up scenario should be described, in 
case of low connectivity at the demo venue.

All topics described in the Call for Papers are eligible for demo track 
submissions.

WHAT SHOULD BE SUBMITTED

All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled 
electronically. Submissions must adhere to the following guidelines:

*The author(s) name and affiliation(s) must be present in the submitted 
document. Any submitted demo proposal violating the length, file type, or 
formatting requirements will be rejected without review.
*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 is 4 pages. This page limit includes all parts of 
the proposal: title, abstract, body, and bibliography.
*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)

The optional demo video should focus on illustrating the demo scenario and 
the interactive nature of the demo system. The video must be no more than 
three minutes in length and should start by clearly identifying the authors 
and title of the proposal. The video should be in common video format 
(e.g., MPEG, AVI), and should be playable on a wide variety of media 
players. We strongly encourage authors to produce and submit a demo video 
and such video will be linked off of the final program on the conference 
website.

The notification for acceptance of demo papers is the same as that for 
regular papers. Accepted demo proposals will appear in the final 
proceedings and in ACM digital library. Note that all deadlines are the 
same as for regular paper submissions.

IMPORTANT DATES

Demo 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

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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)

Steering Committee Members
Dorin Comaniciu, Siemens Corporate Research
Michael D. Larsen, George Washington University
Ching-Yung Lin, IBM Research
Chunqiang Tang, IBM Research
YingLi Tian, City College of New York
Olivier Verscheure, IBM Research
Michael Weiner, Indiana University

Honorary Steering Committee members
Marion J. Ball, Johns Hopkins University & IBM Research
Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota
Joel H. Saltz, Emory University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
A Ishaq, SZABIST Dubai
Alec Holt, University of Otago
Amar Das, Stanford University
Ani Nahapetian, UCLA
Aryya Gangopadhyay, UMBC
Ashish Joshi, UMBC
Ashish Sharma, Emory University
Barbara Hayes, Indiana University School of Informatics
Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chi-Ren Shyu, University of Missouri
Christopher Chute, Mayo Clinic
Chunqiang Tang, IBM Research
Courtney Corley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dan Morris, Microsoft Research
David Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology
Denise Anthony, Dartmouth College
Egondu Onyejekwe, Federal University of Technology Owerri
Egon L. van den Broek, Human-Centered Computing Consultancy, Vienna, Austria
Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech
Guergana Savova, Mayo College of Medicine
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, The Ohio State University
Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University
Hao Yang, Nokia Research
Hassan Ghasemzadeh, University of Texas at Dallas
H.Dominic Covvey, University of Waterloo
Honest Kimaro, University of Dar es Salaam
Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University
Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jiahui Liu, Google Inc.
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University
Jorge Ramirez, Apple Inc
Julie Jacko, University of Minnesota
Julie Kientz, University of Washington
Julie Maitland, National Research Council Canada
Julio Facelli, University of Utah
Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Kai Zheng, University of Michigan
Katarzyna Wac, Carnegie Mellon University
Katie Siek, University of Colorado at Boulder
Kay Connelly, Indiana University
Kelly Caine, Indiana University
Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy
Kiran Turaga, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Lei Zhang, IBM Research
Lena Mamykina, Columbia University Medical Center
Liangyou Chen, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Lu Wang, Harvard-MIT
Luke (Jun) Huan, University of Kansas
Madhav Marathe,  Virginia Tech
Madhu C.Reddy, The Pennsylvania State University
Majid Sarrafzadeh, UCLA
Malika Mahoui, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Mathew Palakal, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Glasgow
Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, University of Washington Medicine
Michael Larsen, George Washington University
Michelle Rogers, Drexel University
Minakshi Tikoo, University of Connecticut Health Center
Mohammad Mahoor, University of Denver
Noemie Elhadad, Columbia University
Olivier Verscheure, IBM Research
Patrick Widener, Emory University
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Robert Patton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas
Samantha Adams, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Selena Thomas, IBM Research
Shafaat Khan, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Sheba George, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
Soojin Park, University of Pennsylvania
Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut
Suk-Chung Yoon, Widener University
Supten Sarbadhikari, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
Tahsin Kurc, Emory University
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota in Duluth
Thomas Agresta, University of Connecticut Health Center
Thomas Finholt, University of Michigan
Thomas Karopka, IT Science Center Rügen gGmbH
Timothy Bickmore, Northeastern University
Tony Hu, Drexel University
Tyrone Grandison, IBM Research
Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University
Vincent Tseng, National Cheng Kung University
William Kaiser, UCLA
William Lane, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Xiaoxiao Chen, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Xue-wen Chen, The University of Kansas
Yang Gong, University of Missouri
YingLi Tian, The City College of New York
Ying Tao, IBM Research
Yu Deng, IBM Research
Yunan Chen, University of California Irvine
Zhaohui Cai, AstraZeneca
Zeeshan Syed, University of Michigan