Informatics 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: International Society for Disease Surveillance 2013 Conference

 December 12-13, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana 

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 9, 2013

Abstract submissions are now being accepted for presentation at the 2013 International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 12-13, 2013. The theme for this year's conference— Translating Research and Surveillance into Action— will focus on strategies for incorporating the latest in biosurveillance approaches, methodologies, and results into evidence-based public health practices, programs, and policies. Submissions that address the conference theme, i.e. the effective transfer of evidence to inform public health, and/or international surveillance and collaboration are especially encouraged.

The ISDS conference is the premier annual scientific gathering for researchers and practitioners in public health, epidemiology, health policy, biostatistics and mathematical modeling, informatics, computer science, and related fields focused on biosurveillance and emerging challenges to public health practice. The 2013 ISDS Conference will feature internationally renowned speakers from health departments, leading academic institutions, government agencies, international health agencies and top industrial organizations.

Abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2013 ISDS Conference will be published in a special supplement of the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics.

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 Papers: 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Healthcare

September 12-14, 2013 Yokohama, Japan

Paper Submission Deadline: July 19 (Fri.), 2013

Track Categories

Non-intrusive Measurement

Sensors for u-Healthcare

Ambient assisted living & smart homes

Body sensor/area networks

Signal and Data Processing

Wireless/Mobile Healthcare System

Home Healthcare System

Emergency Healthcare System

Telemedicine

Sleep Monitoring & Evaluation

Cardiovascular Informatics

u-Healthcare for The Elderly

Brain Computer Interface

Therapeutic & Rehabilitation Methods

Energy Scavenging Technologies

Informatics for Assistive Technologies

Contact Person

Toshiyo Tamura
E-mail: tamurat@isc.osakac.ac.jp

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