CALL FOR PAPERS

[Xing Tan <xing.tan@xxxxxxxxx>]

                 CALL   FOR   PAPERS

International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC 2013)
August 3 - 4, 2013       Beijing, China
http://www.ihic2013.org

co-located with the International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI) 2013

IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline:      May 15, 2013
- Acceptance Notification:  June 5, 2013
- Conference Dates:         August 3-4, 2013

The IHIC 2013 Proceedings will be published as a Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume.

REGISTRATION RATES
- Early Regular Rates: USD 250.00
- Early Student Rates: USD 180.00

** INTRODUCTION

Advancing informatics for healthcare and healthcare applications has
become a global research priority.  There is increased effort to
transform reactive care to proactive and preventive care,
clinic-centric to patient-centered practice, training-based
interventions to globally aggregated evidence, and episodic response
to continuous well-being monitoring and maintenance.

IHIC 2013 aims to provide a forum for health informatics researchers
and practitioners to discuss fundamental principles, algorithms and
applications of intelligent data acquisition, processing, and analysis
of healthcare data. IHIC 2013 is particularly interested in papers
discussing innovative healthcare informatics applications, case
studies, and information and knowledge management techniques, in which
the approaches are accompanied by an in-depth computational evaluation
with real world data.  IHIC 2013 encourages broad participation from
researchers and professionals from a diverse range of disciplines
including medical informatics, bioinformatics, electronic health
records, epidemiology, health statistics, health data mining, public
health, health economics, health-related behavioral studies, computer
science, and information systems, among others.

The conference will be held in China and expects global as well as
Asian participation.

** TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest for the conference include, but are not limited to:

I. Information sharing, integration and extraction
   - Patient education, learning and involvement
   - Consumer and clinician health information needs, seeking, sharing, and use
   - Healthcare knowledge abstraction, classification and summarization
   - Effective Information retrieval for healthcare applications
   - Natural language processing and text mining for biomedical and clinical
     applications, EHR, clinical notes, and health consumer texts
   - Intelligent systems and text mining for electronic health records
   - Health and clinical data integrity, privacy and representativeness for
     secondary use of data

II. Clinical practice and training
    - Virtual patient modeling for learning, practicing and demonstrating care
      practices
    - Medical recommender systems
    - Text mining clinical text for innovative applications (patient monitoring,
      recommender systems for clinicians, adverse effects monitoring)
    - Mental and physical health data integration
    - Computer-aided diagnosis
    - Computational support for patient-centered and evidence-based care
    - Disease profiling and personalized treatment
    - Visual analytics for healthcare
    - Transdisciplinary healthcare through IT

III. Mining clinical and medical data
     - Data augmentation and combination for evidence-based clinical decision-
       making
     - Biomarker discovery and biomedical data mining
     - Semantic Web, linked data, ontologies for healthcare applications
     - Software infrastructure for biomedical applications (text mining platforms,
       semantic web, workflows, etc)
     - Intelligent Medical data management
     - Computational intelligence methodologies for healthcare

IV. Assistive, persuasive and intelligent devices for medical care and monitoring
    - Assistive devices and tools for individuals with special needs
    - Intelligent medical devices and sensors
    - Continuous monitoring and streaming technologies for healthcare
    - Computer support for surgical intervention
    - Localized data for improving emergency care
    - Localization, persuasion and mobile approaches to increasing healthy
      life styles and better self-care
    - Virtual and augmented reality for healthcare
    - Systems for Telemedicine

V. Global systems and large-scale health data analysis and management
    - Global spread of disease: models, tools and interventions
    - Infectious disease informatics
    - Social network analysis for public health
    - Data analytics for public health
    - Pharmacy informatics systems and drug discovery
    - Collaboration technologies for healthcare
    - Healthcare workflow management
    - Meta-studies of community, national and international programs

** PAPER SUBMISSION

Please visit the conference website at   http://www.ihic2013.org/

Detailed submission preparation instructions and a link to the online
submission system are available on the "Paper Submission" page.

The IHIC 2013 Proceedings will be published as a Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume. Selected conference papers
will be recommended for fast-track reviews to IEEE Intelligent Systems
and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems.

** CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORS

- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chinese Military Academy of Health Sciences
- Beijing CDC
- University of Arizona

** TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS

- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
- INFORMS Artificial Intelligence College
- ACM Beijing Chapter
- IFAC Economic and Business Systems Technical Committee
- Chinese Association of Automation
- Chinese Associate for Science and Technology, USA

** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Conference Co-Chairs
- Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA
- Fei-Yue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Co-Chairs
- Vincent Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
- Chris Yang, Drexel University, USA
- Daniel Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Arizona

Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs
- Hongbin Song, Chinese Military Academy of Health Sciences
- Quanyi Wang, Beijing CDC

Tutorial Co-Chairs
- John Brownstein, Harvard Medical School
- Daniel Neill, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Publication Co-Chairs
- Wendy Chapman, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Scott Leischow, Mayo Clinic, USA
- Hsin-Min Lu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Poster Chair
- Howard Burkom, Johns Hopkins University

Finance Co-Chairs
- Xue-Wen Chen, Wayne State University, USA
- Zhidong Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Publicity Co-Chairs
- James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Leslie Lenert, University of Utah, USA
- Kwok Tsui, City University of Hong Kong, China

** PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Yigal Arens, University of Southern California/ISI
- Ian Brooks, UIUC/NCSA
- David Buckeridge, McGill University
- Yiqiang Cai, Yale University
- Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Kup-Sze Choi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Amar Das, Dartmouth College
- Tong Fang, Siemens Corporate Research
- Ron Fricker, Naval Postgraduate School
- Hassan Ghasemzadeh, UCLA
- Natalia Grabar, STL CNRS Université Lille 3
- Takahiro Hara, Osaka University
- Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University
- Kun Huang, The Ohio State University
- Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas
- Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oxford
- Victor Jin, The Ohio State University
- Kenneth Komatsu, Arizona Department of Health Services
- Erhun Kundakcioglu, Univesity of Houston
- Gondy Leroy, Claremont Graduate University
- Jiao Li, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Mohammad Mahoor, University of Denver
- Jin-Cheon Na, Nanyang Technological University
- Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, University of Kentucky
- Balakrishnan Prabhakaran,  University of Texas at Dallas
- Xiaoming Sheng, University of Utah
- Min Song, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Xing Tan, University of Ottawa
- Chunqiang Tang, IBM Research
- Cui Tao, Mayo Clinic
- Egon L. Van Den Broek, TNO / University of Twente / Radboud UMC Nijmegen
- Jason Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- May D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
- Chunhua Weng, Columbia University
- Jinglong Wu, Okayama University
- Bo Xie, University of Texas at Austin
- Hui Yang, University of South Florida
- Mi Zhang, University of Southern California
- Zhongming Zhao, Vanderbilt University
- Kai Zheng, The University of Michigan

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