Health Information Management calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Papers: Managing Interoperability & compleXity in Health Systems

held in conjunction with the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM’12

October 29 to November 2, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA

Workshop Submissions Due: June 29, 2012

Topics of interest, include but are not limited to:

-- Bio-medical Data-Mining, Information retrieval and extraction and NLP on biomedical text

-- Inference and statistical Models of diseases & Multimorbidity

-- Clinical Information Retrieval, Management and Normalization

-- Medical Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Expert and Clinical Decision Support Systems -- Interoperability in Distributed healthcare Systems

-- Clinical Information and Interoperability Standards (e.g. HL7) Clinical Terminologies, Classifications (e.g. ICD 10) and
biomedical ontologies (e.g. SNOMED - CT)

-- Hospital Enterprise Information Management Systems, Electronic Health Record, (EHR), Clinical Document Architecture

To submit your paper, go to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mixhs12

Call for Abstracts: International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Conference

The ISDS Annual Conference is the premier event dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of biosurveillance. This year’s theme, Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance, will highlight the importance of working together across agencies, sectors, and disciplines to improve surveillance methods and population health outcomes. The conference will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA, December 4-5, 2012, with Pre-Conference Workshops on December 3rd.

The ISDS Conference draws professionals from a broad range of disciplines— epidemiology and computer science to mathematical modeling and health policy—to learn and contribute the latest achievements, methodologies, best practices, conceptual frameworks, and technical innovations in the rapidly evolving field of biosurveillance. This year's conference will provide fertile ground for cultivating new ideas and partnerships with roundtable discussions, panels and other opportunities to collaborate.

The scope of this conference includes all of the components, policies, methods, practices, infrastructure, research and evaluation related to timely surveillance of communicable diseases, chronic diseases and injuries. This includes notifiable conditions, adverse events and emerging/novel threats; biological, chemical, and radiological health threats; plant, animal, and food surveillance; and environmental monitoring.

Questions regarding the Call for Abstracts may be sent to Tera Reynolds, ISDS Program Manager.

Submission deadline: September 6, 2012 (11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time)

Authors notified of acceptance: October 3, 2012

Pre-Conference Workshops: December 3, 2012

Annual Conference: December 4-5, 2012

Submission Types

Note: All abstracts for the ISDS Conference will be submitted using ScholarOne. There is a limit of 4810 characters for the text of your submission. The character count includes spaces. The character count WILL include title, authors, institutions, tables, and images, but WILL NOT include presenting author brief biographical summaries (bios) or the abstract summary that will be used in the conference program.

Oral

All abstracts submitted for oral presentation are automatically considered for poster presentation as well. Include the following components when submitting an abstract for oral presentation:

· Title (85 characters MAX)

· Objective

· Introduction

· Methods

· Results

· Conclusions

· Acknowledgements

· References

· Names and affiliations of authors

· Brief bio of lead author/intended presenter (450 characters/75 words)

· Brief summary (600 characters/100 words) of submission to be used in conference program

Poster

Include the following components when submitting an abstract for poster presentation:

· Title (85 characters MAX)

· Objective

· Introduction

· Methods

· Results

· Conclusions

· Acknowledgements

· References

· Names and affiliations of authors

· Brief bio of lead author/intended presenter (450 characters/75 words)

· Brief summary (600 characters/100 words) of submission (for potential inclusion in conference program)

Panel *New for 2012*

Panel topics should be a specific aspect of design, theory, application, or experience pertaining to the science or practice of biosurveillance. Suggested panels should be comprised of no more than four participants and a moderator. A typical panel session will consist of four 15 minute presentations, each followed by 5 minutes of questions, with 10 minutes for closing discussion (presentation lengths will be subject to change based on final agenda). When submitting an abstract for a panel, include the following components:

· Title (85 characters MAX)

· Objective

· Introduction

· Panel description

· How the moderator intends to engage the audience in discussions on the panel topic

· Names of panel presenters, moderator and affiliations

· Brief bios for each panel presenter and moderator (450 characters/75 words each) for abstract reviewers to assess appropriateness to serve on the panel for the described topic

· Brief summary (600 characters/100 words) of panel to be used in conference program

Roundtable *New for 2012*

Roundtables can have up to three facilitators to briefly introduce the topic of interest and facilitate active discussion among attendees. Roundtables must be discussion-oriented rather than didactic, lecture-driven sessions. Roundtable discussions will be 60-90 minutes (depending on final agenda). When submitting an abstract for a roundtable, include the following components:

· Title (85 characters MAX)

· Objective

· Introduction

· Roundtable description

· How the facilitator intends to engage the audience in the roundtable discussion, including sample questions

· Names of facilitators and affiliations

· Brief bios for each facilitator (450 characters/75 words each) for abstract reviewers to assess appropriateness to lead a discussion on the described topic

· Brief summary (600 characters/100 words) of roundtable to be used in conference program

System Showcase Demonstrations *New for 2012*

System showcase demonstrations will be presented during the evening poster session on the first day of the conference. A typical demonstration will illustrate one or more aspects of an innovative population/public health surveillance system that is in use or under development. Demonstrations of open source and/or free products are strongly encouraged. System showcase demonstrations are not intended to be marketing or sales presentations and such submissions will be rejected; those interested in supporting the ISDS conference with an exhibit booth should contact Tera Reynolds at ISDS for more information. When submitting an abstract for a system showcase demonstration, include the following components:

· Title (85 characters MAX)

· Objective

· Introduction

· Description, highlighting benefits to public/population health surveillance and how this demonstration will be a unique addition to the ISDS conference

· Conclusions, including lessons learned and design principles from this demonstration that attendees can take away, even if not using or intending to use the system demonstrated

· Names of demonstrators and affiliations

· Brief summary (600 characters/100 words) of showcase to be used in conference program

Track Descriptions

I. Analytical Methods

a. Analytical Methods: Applied

b. Analytical Methods: Research & Development

This theme is focused on important and novel advances in the field of surveillance methodologies and analytical approaches. Abstracts in the Applied sub-track should describe methods or processes routinely used in a production-type environment. Abstracts in the Research and Development sub-track should describe methods and processes still under development or tested within a research or pilot setting. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· Analytic evaluation of surveillance components

· Decision support

· Estimating morbidity and impact

· Evaluation of algorithms and systems through epidemic simulation

· Geospatial analysis

· Innovative use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology

· Integrating evidence from multiple sources

· Integration of mathematical modeling and statistical analyses

· New algorithms and evaluation of existing algorithms for cluster and event detection

· Pattern recognition algorithms

· Predictive disease modeling/predictive analytics

· Spatial cluster detection

· Statistical methods and tools for analyzing and interpreting data

· Time series analysis

II. Informatics

a. Informatics: Applied

b. Informatics: Research & Development

Abstracts in the Applied sub-track should describe methods or processes routinely used in a production-type environment. Abstracts in the Research and Development sub-track should describe methods and processes still under development or tested within a research or pilot setting. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· Advances in methods for classifying data

· Approaches to building interoperable surveillance systems and components

· Borderless data exchange models (e.g. federated information sharing approaches)

· Cloud computing for public health surveillance

· Data integration – acquiring, moving, storing, processing, coding, normalizing, and preparing data for analysis between systems

· Data quality

· Data visualization methods

· Electronic health records and public health surveillance

· Health information exchange

· How clinical information systems can support public health surveillance efforts

· How public health information systems can support clinical efforts

· Informatics lessons learned

· Information and knowledge exchange

· Innovations in public health informatics

· Mobile technologies for public health

· Natural language processing

· Standards and Interoperability Framework (Public Health Reporting Initiative)

· Standards used in public health surveillance

· System architectures for limited connectivity environments and disaster surveillance

· System architectures for surveillance in low-resource environments

· System architectures to leverage HIE for public health surveillance

· System descriptions of real-world solutions to challenging integration problems

· Workforce requirements and training

· Use of social media for biosurveillance

III. Policy (at local, state, federal, international levels)

This theme is focused on sharing successes, challenges or approaches leveraged in the use or development of policy which affects biosurveillance operations and activities. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· Creating successful surveillance partnerships

· Data sharing policies

· Federal policy agendas

· Funding strategies for surveillance

· How public health surveillance data have been used to inform policy

· International Health Regulations

· Legal/ethical/security/privacy issues in surveillance

· Meaningful Use responses by public health departments

· Policies around social media/leveraging social networks for risk communication, etc.

· Research collaborations to expand evidence-based health policy

· Workforce

IV. Public/Population health surveillance

a. Public/Population Health Surveillance: Practice

b. Public/Population Health Surveillance: Research

c. Public/Population Health Surveillance: Evaluation

This theme is focused on improving the daily processes of timely public/population health surveillance, including detection, signal validation, event characterization, investigation, and response. Abstracts in the Practice sub-track should describe practices routinely used in a production environment and/or deployed in field by public health departments or other agencies. Abstracts in the Research sub-track should describe research related to surveillance, health systems, etc. Abstracts in the Evaluation sub-track should describe evaluations of public/population health surveillance systems, workflows, protocols, etc. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· Adverse drug events and pharmacovigilance

· Case studies

· Chronic disease surveillance

· Collaboration success stories

· Contact tracing and network analysis

· Disaster/event surveillance

· Disparities surveillance

· Evaluation of surveillance systems

· Infectious disease surveillance

· Influenza-like illness surveillance

· Injury surveillance

· Innovations in biosurveillance

· Integrating surveillance across multiple data sources

· Integrating surveillance systems, e.g. syndromic and reportable diseases

· Linking response with frontline health workers

· Meaningful Use and how it’s changing/not changing surveillance practice

· Measuring vaccine efficacy, coverage, etc.

· Messaging/risk communication (what to say to the public, politicians and media about syndromic systems alerts)

· Mobile technologies for public health

· Novel approaches to communicable diseases surveillance and reporting (e.g., notifiable conditions, MRSA, nosocomial infections)

· OneHealth

· Outbreak detection, characterization and outbreak management

· School and university surveillance

· Situational awareness

· Social media and surveillance

· Surveillance across borders

· Surveillance for refugees and recent immigrants

· Surveillance in resource-limited settings

· Surveillance using ambulatory care data

· Surveillance using inpatient data

· Vaccine-preventable disease surveillance

Call for Papers: 2nd International Conference on Global Telehealth - GT2012

“Delivering Quality Healthcare Anywhere Through Telehealth”

25 - 28, 2012 November Sydney, Australia

Telehealth, including telemedicine, patient monitoring and associated eHealth considerations, is currently experiencing a rapid expansion in adoption worldwide. Deployment of new information and communications technologies, and their enabling systems and infrastructure, offer many emerging avenues for implementation of Telehealth solutions. Widespread initiatives by public and private sector health providers with government reimbursement and regulatory support are transforming previously small scale activities into widespread adoption. This situation provides a great opportunity to raise levels of access and increase quality of healthcare globally.

The Telehealth domain of interest covers a broad scope: from enabling direct clinical interventions and interactions by real-time or store-forward processes, to communicating and managing health information in electronic formats, to patient centred care needs such as personal monitoring and care team support, and to education, policy and professional aspects. Mainstream activities in healthcare systems internationally address these areas, and so this conference provides a platform for sharing of best practice and directions.

Telehealth is also acting as a major change driver in global health, particularly in underserved regions and emerging countries. This is aided by the rapid uptake of leapfrog technologies such as mobile wireless communications and portable computing devices, and the deployment of new models and processes of healthcare. The conference will give special emphasis to this sector and particularly invites participation by representatives from Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America.

Contributions are sought addressing current research and practice in Telehealth, including (but not limited to):

• clinical applications of telemedicine
• teleconsultation and telecollaboration
• teleprocedures and robotic surgical methods
• telecare and remote patient monitoring
• tele-education and clinical training
• evaluation and benefits of telehealth
• web services for telehealth
• mobile telehealth and wireless applications
• telehealth software and systems
• telehealth technologies and methodologies
• telehealth for remote areas
• telehealth in emerging countries
• telehealth policy and governance
• international trends and perspectives for telehealth

Original unpublished contributions in all fields of Telehealth (and closely related areas of eHealth) are invited. These may be offered as Full Papers (maximum 8 pages or approx 4000 words, not previously published) subject to expert peer review by an international program committee of technical experts, or as extended abstract Short Papers (maximum 2 pages or approx 1000 words) also subject to peerl review. Full Papers will appear in a commercially published and indexed monograph or may be considered for invited journal publication. Short Papers will appear in proceedings to be distributed to delegates at the event.

Submissions must contain a clear statement of aims, methods, results and conclusions for the work reported. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to the conference, and presentation. Submission of a Full Paper or Short Paper will imply an undertaking that, should it be accepted, at least one author will register and attend the conference to present the work. Submissions should be made by following the instructions on the conference website, using the style guide provided.

Submission of Full and Short Papers: Friday 28 July 2012
Notification of acceptance to authors: Friday 25 August 2012
Camera-ready copy for proceedings: Friday 8 September 2012
Author & Early-bird registration deadline: Friday 8 September 2012

The conference will offer a limited number of half-day Workshops, for presentation of “work-in-progress” on thematically related sets of current Telehealth projects, and half-day Tutorials, for experts to provide concentrated overviews on topics of contemporary interest. These associated events will be available to delegates at very modest fees. Persons interested in offering to organise either a Workshop or a Tutorial should e-mail a 1 page summary of their proposal (including details of coverage, and names and affiliations of any intended presenters) to the organisers by the above Submission date. Other satellite events may be organised on the first day.

General Co-Chairs: Prof Anthony Maeder, University of Western Sydney & Prof Mohamed Khadra, University of Sydney
Program Co-Chairs: A/Prof Anthony Smith, University of Queensland & Dr Robert Eikelboom, University of Western Australia
Organising Co-Chairs: Dr Laurie Wilson, CSIRO ICT Centre & Dr David Allen, Quality Occupational Health

More Information: http://www.aths.org.au/GT2012/

Call for Papers: Third International Conference on Global Trends in Biomedical Informatics, Research Education and Globalization

Organized by the Department of Health Informatics, School of Health Related Professions, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Third International Conference on Global Trends in Biomedical Informatics, Research Education and Globalization which will take place on November 15th, 2012 in Newark, NJ, USA.

This conference will provide a unique opportunity for disseminating the latest advances, applications and future trends in the area of Biomedical Informatics. The conference will meet the diverse interests of the delegates - from conceptual, theoretical, practical applications to commercialization. It will be the center of action for health informatics professionals to interact with their peers, meet leaders in the field, learn about new products, and see demonstrations from top healthcare systems and services vendors.

We are inviting original, unpublished research manuscripts in the following areas of interest, but not limited to

Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use
Healthcare Outcomes Research
Personalized Medicine, Genetic Testing & Biomarkers
Interoperability and Standards in Healthcare
Public Health Informatics, GIS Applications, Disease Mapping & Surveillance
Clinical Informatics including Decision Support & Intelligent Systems
Healthcare Marketing and Outsourcing
Molecular Imaging & Nanomedicine
Privacy, Security and Confidentiality
Healthcare System Intrusion including Bio- and Cyber-Terrorism
Healthcare Disparities Research
Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials
Bio-computations
Nursing Informatics
Modelling and Simulation in Biomedical Research.
Translational Research in Healthcare including Bioinformatics Applications
Controlled Medical Terminologies & Ontologies
Healthcare Quality Research
Intelligent Systems
Mobile devices in Health care
Biomedical Instrumentation, Devices and Signal processing
Telemedicine Applications including Mobile Devices, Health Information Exchange & Service Oriented Architecture for Healthcare

Selected papers will be submitted for publication in the

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Consumer Health Informatics
International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Healthcare Informatics

Highlights of the Conference

State-of-the-Art Overviews by Renowned Experts
Presentation of Scientific and Application Papers
Panel Discussions Exploring Critical Issues of the Day
Demonstrations of Advanced Health Informatics Systems
In-depth Tutorial Sessions in Current State of Art Biomedical Informatics by Eminent Speakers

We are looking forward for your participation to make this event a grand success

Important Deadlines:

Manuscript Submission: September 1, 2012
Decision on Paper Acceptance: September 30, 2012
Submission of Final Manuscript: October 30, 2012

CONTACT DETAILS
Dr. Syed Haque
Chair & Program Director

Ms. Yvonne Rolley
Conference Coordinator
Department of Health Informatics
UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions
65 Bergen Street, Rm.350
Newark, NJ 07107-3001
Phone: 973 972 6871, Fax: 973 972 8540

Call for Abstracts: Advances in eHealth 2012 Workshop

The workshop provides a forum for eHealth researchers from multiple disciplines to share current advances and research on increasing the effectiveness and adoption of technology in healthcare in the coming decade. This ranges from the use of sensor devices, human-computer interfaces, to cloud based medical record systems in order to provide radically new solutions for helping patients. At the same time medical informatics and large scale genomics data analysis are playing major role in clarifying the opportunities for personalized medicine applications. Biobanks as the back end of data-driven biomedical science open the possibilities for studying genetic and environmental influences over time, accelerating the pace of biomedical research. On other hand, ongoing efforts toward a global sharing of digital healthcare data will pave the way to maximize the potential for knowledge discovery.

These advances require structural changes as well as technological development. Society is facing an increase in chronic degenerative diseases that require monitoring and long-term patient management, the growing desire of patients to be treated in a family environment in order to protect their social ties, and, finally, a need to reduce costs. These factors necessitate a new strategic orientation in services and infrastructures for supporting these services. Both the shift towards networked sensors and cloud-based systems also require new security concepts to facilitate secure and effective use of these systems.

We are looking for papers that address medium to large-scale and medium to long-term challenges for eHealth and potential solutions.

The workshop is part of the eScience2012 conference (http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012), 8-12 October 2012, Chicago, USA.

Workshop twitter hashtag: #aeh2012

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

Medical Simulations
Computing Infrastructures for eHealth
Data Storage, Transfer, and Indexing Systems for eHealth Applications
Security & Privacy for eHealth
HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) for eHealth
User Studies of eHealth Systems
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems and Applications
Bio-banking and eHealth
Data Mining and Applications for Personalized Medicine

Workshop format
The workshop will include invited speakers, paper presentation sessions and a tentative panel discussion.

Organizing Committee
Rossen Apostolov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
rossen@kth.se
Matthew Smith, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
smith@dcsec.uni-hannover.de
Tristan Glatard, CREATIS, Medical Imaging Research Center, Lyon, France
tristan.glatard@creatis.insa-lyon.fr

Important dates
Abstract submission: 4 July 2012
Paper submission: 11 July 2012
Paper author notification: 22 August 2012
Camera-ready papers due: 10 September 2012
Conference: 8-12 October 2012

Submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. (Up to 2 additional pages may be purchased for US$150/page). Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeh2012

(Note that paper submitters also must submit an abstract in advance of the paper deadline. This should be done through the same site where papers are submitted.)

It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference.

Call for Submitted Symposia: IAGG (International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics) 20th World Congress

June 23-27, 2013 Seoul, South Korea

Main Theme
Digital @geing: A New Horizon for Health Care and Active Ageing

Important Dates
· Period: September 1st 2011 ~ May 31st 2012
· Notification of Acceptance: September 2012
· Notification of Presentation schedule: October 2012
· Final list of accepted proposals: October 2012

Main Themes
The congress program is primarily organized around four main themes:

· Biological Science
· Clinical Medicine
· Social & Behavioral Science
· Research, Policy and Practice