Health Information Management calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Papers: Health Informatics Symposium (HIS)

September 25, 2013, Washington, DC

This symposium will be held in conjunction with the annual ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (ACM BCB), which is the main flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio (ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics). The goal of this symposium is to bring together bring computational scientists together with researchers and professionals to discuss the problems in healthcare, public health, and everyday wellness. The symposium highlights the most novel technical contributions in computing oriented toward health informatics and the related social and ethical implications.

Specific topics of interest cover various facets of health informatics research, including but not limited to the following:

• Information technologies for clinical and healthcare delivery and management

• Health data acquisition, management, and visualization

• Healthcare knowledge management and decision support

• Healthcare modeling and simulation

• Data analytics, data mining, and machine learning

• Health information systems

• Healthcare communication networks and environments

• Interactions with health information technologies

• System software design and implementation

• Multi-modal data integration with an emphasis on supporting real-time analytics

• Methodological innovation focused on the generation of information and knowledge

• Data science and visualization with applications in the health and life sciences

• Natural language processing, text mining including data from Electronic Health Record

• Instrumentation of enterprise systems to create a "Learning Healthcare SystemSubmitted manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper (see ACM templates). All the manuscripts should be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmbcbhis2013. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the proceedings published by ACM digital libraries. The authors of selected papers will be invited to adapt their papers for being published in a special issue of a journal (to be determined).

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2013

Notification of acceptance:  July 20, 2013

Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2013

Symposium date: September 25, 2013

Call for Abstracts: American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Care Symposium

Novembe 1-2, 2013 San Diego, California

Abstract Submission Deadline: July 2, 2013, at 11:59 PM (EDT)

ASCO's Quality Care Symposium will bring together leaders in the fields of quality, health services research, and oncology outcomes to present applied practice innovations and share methods for measuring and improving the quality of cancer care. Designed to address critical questions and provide healthcare professionals with the tools needed to administer superior care, the two-day Symposium will feature applicable, patient-focused educational sessions, panel discussions, and abstract presentations. ASCO is now accepting abstracts for the scientific program, which includes Poster and Oral Abstract Sessions.

Abstracts may be submitted to the following categories:

Health Reform: Implications for Costs and Quality

■ Evolving Relationship of Payers and Providers

■ Measuring Value and Costs

■ Payment and Insurance Reform

■ The Changing Landscape of Provider Organizations

■ Specialty and Manpower Issues

Practice of Quality

■ Involving Patients in Quality Care

■ Learning from Projects Done in a Practice

■ Learning from Projects Done in a Health System

■ Patient Safety

■ Use of IT to Improve Quality

Science of Quality

■ Communication, Decision Making, and Behavior

■ HIT Analytics

■ Quality Improvement

■ Quality Measurement

■ Studies Using Registries or Combining Large Databases

Call for Presentations and Abstracts: AMDA Long Term Care Medicine - 2014: Creating Harmony in Long Term Care

February 27- March 2, 2014 Nashville, Tennessee

The Program Committee invites you to submit program proposals and abstracts for AMDA Long Term Care Medicine - 2014: Creating Harmony in Long Term Care, February 27- March 2, 2014 in Nashville, TN - Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.

Submissions should be based on the learning objectives and areas of interest noted below and include current trends and best practices in long term care. Of special interest is emerging clinical information, research, innovations in non-pharmaceutical modification of challenging behaviors, emerging concepts in management and medical direction, and updates on approaches to regulatory compliance. AMDA also seeks proposals that emphasize strategies for successful cooperation with consultant pharmacists and administrators as well as the entire interdisciplinary team.

Results of the conference evaluation clearly show that a majority of attendees come for the education program and the associated continuing education credits. Our attendees expect clinical topics to be evidence-based with cited references and management topics to be relevant to their setting and grounded in best practices. For their learning experience, attendees seek opportunities to network with colleagues and engage in interactive presentations through various formats such as point-counterpoint, case-based discussion (Q&A), small group and/or role play, and practical information for valuable take home tools such as handouts, key points, guides or quick tips.

TIMELINE:

Oral Presentation Submission Deadline: July 16, 2013

Model Programs and Policies Swap Deadline: September 16, 2013

Poster Submission Deadline: October 28, 2013

AMDA will only accept proposals and posters submitted using the online submission system. Please do not submit a proposal unless you can be available to present on any day of the conference.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Upon conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:

Analyze available data to improve process and promote quality improvement in long term care.

Apply knowledge and skills gained to enhance the effectiveness and quality of medical direction in nursing facilities.

Discuss clinical advances and new research findings relevant to long term care medicine.

Implement clinical practice guidelines in the long term care setting.

Utilize available data, tools, and emerging technologies to inform decisions about clinical care and/or medical direction.

Implement strategies for effective communication with patients, families and care teams.

Engage in professional interaction with colleagues in long term care.

Enhance skills and abilities to collaborate with and/or lead the long term care interdisciplinary team.

Gain new perspectives on relevant aspects of fiscal issues, health care policy, risk management, and AMDA policy priorities.

Establish a network with active members of AMDA and the long term care medical community.

EDUCATIONAL NEEDS:

AMDA welcomes submissions on all topics pertinent to long term care medicine and medical direction. Based on the latest educational needs analysis conducted by the Program Planning Committee, the following topics have been identified as areas of focus:

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Advance directives

Antipsychotics/dementia

OIG/survey process (off label use, Black Box warning)

Dose reduction

Non-pharmacological options

Appropriate use

Beers criteria (using it for clinical practice)

Conducting research in the long term care setting

Congestive heart failure

Culture diversity among patients, residents and staff

Dealing with challenging/difficult families (specific to decision making, goal setting)

Decision making capacity

Disaster Planning

Dermatology (skill based session – practical applications to long term care)

Scabies (dealing with it from a facility standpoint)

Common conditions (advanced level)

Health Information Technology (HIT)

Improving communication with staff and families

Improving patient/resident experience (beyond culture change)

Patient centered care

Resident satisfaction (and family)

Long term care practice models

Assisted Living

Acute

Financial/business

Management of recurrent/refractory C. diff

Managing higher acute residents in the long term care setting (IDT perspective)

MDS 3.0 (skill based sessions – practical applications)

Nutrition - palliative care (feeding protocols, etc.)

Overcoming barriers in long term care noting skill based/case examples

Pain Management

Acute

End-of-life

Parkinson Disease (when to stop meds/labs)

Pediatric/young adult long term care

Professional Development

Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI)

Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) audits

Risk management

Staff retention

Transitions of care

Call for Papers: First International Conference on ICTs for Disaster Management 

March 24-25, 2014 Algiers, Algeria

Paper Submission deadline: September 23, 2013

ICT-DM’2014 aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning, disaster recovery, etc., to learn about the latest research developments, share experiences and information about this area and develop recommendations.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research on using ICTs for detection, prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in applied‐focused research. The conference topics are (but not limited to):

Communication systems for disaster management

Infrastructures, technologies and services for distributed crisis management teams and organizations

Mobile and wireless communication networks

Hastily formed networks (MANETs, Mesh, VANETs, Sensor, …)

Opportunistic communications

Multi-platform and multi-sensor data collection

Infrastructure protection and security

Interoperability of heterogeneous systems

Coordination and collaboration technologies and systems for disaster management

Collaborative information systems architectures, frameworks, technologies

Collaborative decision-making under stress, time pressure and limited resources

Service Oriented Architectures for collaboration

Ontology approaches

Contextual and situation-based collaboration

Security and privacy concerns in information sharing

Cloud computing for disaster management

Pervasive and mobile computing

Social media and networks for participation and collaboration

Modeling and simulation of collaboration

Data/information management and analysis for disaster management

Querying and filtering on heterogeneous, multi-source streaming disaster data

Human-system interactive information extraction

Uncertainty and possibly adversity in data handling and delivery

Context-awareness information analysis and extraction

Data mining from multiple information and huge sources

Mining and making decisions on time-evolving and uncertain data

Crowd sourcing

Trust and information credibility in social networks

Damage and loss assessment

Post disaster needs assessment

Geo-Information technologies for disaster management

Geospatial information technology and geo-collaboration

Situation awareness

Web mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Integration of data: building information models (BIM) and GIS

Standardization developments (models, icons, symbols)

Visualization and visual analytics

Evacuation and rescue geo-planning

Open source data and space based resources to support disaster management

Preparation and mitigation for managing disasters

Prediction and early warning

Remote sensing

Risk assessment, modeling and simulation tools for crisis situations

Healthcare crisis information systems

Multimedia-based communication skills for citizens and civil servants

E-government and population education

Practices for risk reduction and rapid response in developing countries

ICT in emergency planning and civil protection

Case studies, particular incidents and learned lessons

Benchmark and case studies in e-governance for disaster management

Case studies of the use of social media and networks

Innovative uses of technologies adapted to the readiness 

Requests can be sent to:

E-Mail: ictdm2014@gmail.com

Fax: +213 (0) 21 91 21 26

Call for Papers: Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Submission deadline (full paper): June 26, 2013

Recent advances in technology and computational science influenced a large spectrum of branches in approaching population health. Despite significant progresses, many challenges exist, including health informatics, cross-country platforms interoperability, system and laws harmonization, protection of health data, practical solutions, accessibility to health services, and many others. Along with technological progress, personalized medicine, ambient assistance and pervasive health complement patient needs. A combination of classical and information-driven approach is developing now, where diagnosis systems, data protection mechanisms, remote assistance and hospital-processes are converging.

GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 takes a global perspective on population health, from national to cross-country approaches, multiplatform technologies, from drug design to medicine accessibility, everything under mobile, ubiquitous, and personalized characteristics of new age population.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

FUNDAMENTALS

Foundations in global health informatics

Computational health

Software for health

Independent living technologies

ICT and health

Platform interoperability

Semantic interoperability

Diagnosis systems

Applied health informatics

User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY

Bio-medical semantics

Bio-medicine

Disease biomarker prediction

Applications of bio-nano technology

Body networks

Mobile healthcare

Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS

Clinical epigenetic

Long term health conditions

Ambient assisted

Genetics

Virtual reality in medicine surgery

Clinical trials

Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics

Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE

Nursing

Patient-centered care

Personalized medicine

Pervasive health

Homecare

Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE

Biomedicine

Natural medicine

Preventive medicine

Chronic diseases following

Home surveillance

CHALLENGES

Security aspects and access control on medical data

Data management in pervasive context

Data quality assurance and provenance

Patient flow models in hospitals

Clinical data analysis

Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL

eHealth initiatives

Social medicine

Health global accessibility

Epidemic spreading and control

Health Education

Providing health in remote areas

Decision support within healthcare

Ethical aspects in eHealth

Healthcare plans and patient benefits

Synchronization of federal regulations

Availability of medication

Community health services