CFP: ACM IHI 2010

Please find attached below the call for papers for ACM First International

Conference on Health Informatics, IHI 2010. Apologies for multiple
postings.

Best Regards

Deepak Turaga

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

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

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
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We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the 2010 ACM
International Conference on Health Informatics (IHI 2010).

IHI 2010 is ACM's premier community forum concerned with the application
of computer and information science principles and information and
communication technology to problems in healthcare, public health, the
delivery of healthcare services and consumer health as well as the related
social and ethical issues.

For technical contributions, IHI 2010 is primarily interested in
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.
For social/behavioral scientific contributions, we are interested in
empirical studies of health-related information needs, seeking, sharing
and use, as well as socio-technical studies of heath information
technology implementation and use. Topics of interest for this conference
cover various aspects of health informatics, 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
- Biosurveillance
- Brain computer interface
- Cleaning, preprocessing, and ensuring quality and integrity of
medical records
- Computational support for patient-centered and evidence-based care
- Consumer health and wellness informatics applications
- Consumer and clinician health information needs, seeking, sharing
and use
- Continuous monitoring and streaming technologies
- Data management, privacy, security, and confidentiality
- Display and visualization of medical data
- E-communities and networks for patients and consumers
- E-healthcare infrastructure design
- E-learning for spreading health informatics awareness
- Engineering of medical data
- Health information system framework and enterprise architecture in
the developing world
- 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
- 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
- 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 medical 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 coherent, application-driven submissions
where in-depth ideas from a variety of fields are presented about
important problems in health informatics.

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 minimal validation and
implementation have occurred and can be described. All papers will appear
in the ACM Digital Library. The best papers of IHI 2010 will be considered
for 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
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Abstract submission deadline: May 24, 2010 11:30pm EST
Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2010 11:30pm EST
Notification of acceptance: August 2, 2010 11:30pm EST
Camera-ready copy due: August 16, 2010 11:30pm EST

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
David W. Bates, Partners Healthcare System& Harvard Medical School
Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota
Blackford Middleton, Partners Healthcare System& Harvard Medical School
Joel H. Saltz, Emory University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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To be finalized