Lisbon (in association with ECAI 2010) (01)
http://www.openclinical.org/announcements.html (02)
As computerized health-care support systems are rapidly becoming more
knowledge intensive, the representation of medical knowledge in a form
that enables reasoning is growing in relevance and taking a more
central role in the area of Medical Informatics. In order to achieve a
successful decision-support and knowledge management approach to
medical knowledge representation, the scientific community has to
provide efficient representations, technologies, and tools to
integrate all the important elements that health care providers work
with: electronic health records and health-care information systems,
clinical practice guidelines and standardized medical technologies,
codification standards, etc. (03)
Synergies to integrate the above mentioned elements and types of
knowledge must be sought both in the medical problems (e.g.,
prevention, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, etc.) and also in the
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence technologies (e.g.,
natural language processing, digital libraries, knowledge
representation, knowledge integration and merging, decision support
systems, machine learning, e-learning, etc.). (04)
The workshop will focus on electronic patient data. After many years
of promise, we finally begin to see a widespread deployment of
electronic patient records and dossiers. (05)
Original contributions are sought, regarding the development of
theory, techniques, and use cases of Artificial Intelligence in the
area of health care, particularly connected to patient data,
guidelines and medical processes. The scope of the workshop includes,
but is not limited to, the following areas: (06)
Electronic health record-related subjects: (07)
The use of ontologies, conceptual models and medical vocabularies for
linking computerized guidelines and protocols to EHRs
Evaluation of quality and safety of computerized guidelines in the
light of EHR data
Compliance of guidelines or protocols against EHRs
Data and knowledge integration and interoperability for health-care
processes, guidelines and protocols
Deployments of computerized guidelines and protocols with EHRs
Temporal knowledge representations and exploitation from patient data
Procedural knowledge extraction from health-care databases.
Clinical processes and guidelines-related topics: (08)
Knowledge representation and ontologies for health-care processes
Formalization of medical processes and knowledge-based health-care models
The use of ontologies, conceptual models and medical vocabularies for
representing descriptive and procedural medical knowledge
Combining medical guidelines with care pathways, workflows, and the
care delivery process
Knowledge combination, personalisation and adaptation for health care processes
Digital libraries and repositories of health-care procedural
knowledge, guidelines and protocols
Methods and tools for change and version management of descriptive and
procedural medical knowledge
The impact of evidence-based medicine on the development and
representation of descriptive and procedural medical knowledge
Acquisition, refinement and exploration of the temporal aspect of
guidelines and protocols
Knowledge-based learning of health-care processes (e.g., data mining
form guideline construction)
Techniques for simulating computerized guidelines
Natural-language processing to extract medical knowledge
Verification of represented healthcare knowledge.
background to KR4HC-2010
The KR4HC workshop continues a line of successful guideline workshops
held in 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. (09)
Following the success of the first European Workshop on Computerized
Guidelines and Protocols held at Leipzig, Germany, in 2000, a
Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols was organized in
Prague, Czech Republic in 2004. In 2006 an ECAI-2006 workshop at Riva
del Garda, Italy, called �AI Techniques in Health Care: Evidence-based
Guidelines and Protocols� was organized to bring together researchers
from different branches of Artificial Intelligence. This ECAI-2006
workshop was followed by a workshop on �Computer-based Clinical
Guidelines and Protocols� at Leiden University in 2008, which resulted
in the book �Computer-based Clinical Guidelines and Protocols: a
Primer and Current Trends� published by IOS Press. (010)
Running in parallel with the above workshops, there has been a series
of workshops and publications devoted to the formalization,
organization, and deployment of procedural knowledge in health care.
These workshops were the IEEE CBMS-2007 special track on �Machine
Learning and Management of Health Care Procedural Knowledge� held in
Maribor, Slovenia in 2007; the AIME-2007 workshop �From Medical
Knowledge to Global Health Care� in Amsterdam in 2007; the ECAI-2008
workshop on �Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures� in
Patras, Greece, in 2008. Springer Lecture Notes Series books LNAI 4924
and LNAI 5626, based on work at the workshops, were published in 2008
and 2009, respectively. (011)
These two initiatives came together in the first KR4HC workshop that
was organized in conjunction with the AIME conference in Verona,
Italy, in 2009 and continue in KR4HC-2010. (012)
submission guidelines There are two categories of paper submissions:
Full research papers (up to 10 pages)
Short papers (up to 5 pages) that can be either short research papers
or demonstrations of implemented systems.
All papers must be in Springer LNCS format and submitted with
Springer�s OCS before the deadline. (013)
If sufficient quality is available among the workshop submissions, we
will investigate publication of selected papers as part of the LNAI
Springer series. (014)
Notes that workshop participants must follow ECAI registration rules: (015)
Workshop participants are required to register with the main conference.
People presenting a paper in a workshop are required to register by
the EARLY registration deadline.
All registrations should be done through the ECAI registration website.
deadlines
Deadline for paper submissions: 7 May 2010 (016)
Notification of acceptance: 7 June 2010 (017)
Final camera-ready manuscripts: 24 June 2010 (018)
Workshop date: to be announced (019)
contact
Annette ten Teije
Department of Computer Science
Free University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands (020)
E: annettecs.vu.nl (021)
annette@xxxxxxxx
Workshop Organising Committee (022)
Silvia Miksch, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
Mor Peleg. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
David Riaņo, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (023)
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