Information Reuse and Integration in Health Informatics IRI-HI 2013

Call for Papers (pdf version)

The advancement of technology and computational science has influenced a wide range of fields, including clinical research leading to health informatics as an emerging vital research area which is attracting more attention in academia and industry. Health informatics combines computational science and the clinical world to help improve the treatment of patients; it deals with resources, devices, and methodologies required for optimizing the acquisition, storage, maintenance, retrieval, and use of healthcare information and resources for effective diagnosis and treatment of patients.

The goal of this research track is to bring together professionals, researchers and practitioners in the area of health informatics to present, discuss, and share the latest finding in the field, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions.

Topics covered by IRI-HI 2013 include but are not limited to work in progress as well as cutting-edge and novel findings on the latest trends and developments in health informatics, encompassing areas such as:

• Clinical and hospital human resource management and performance analysis
• Computer aided diagnosis
• Computational biomedicine, genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolimics, sociogenomics
• Controlled and optimized utilization of resources
• Data analysis and disease biomarker prediction
• Data mining and machine learning techniques in health informatics
• Drug design, disease diagnosis and control
• e-health and web-based information services
• Evaluation and use of information technology in healthcare
• Healthcare applications of mobile and pervasive technologies
• Human-computer interaction
• Future developments in technologies and applications
• Intelligent health information systems and decision support systems
• Integration and sharing of heterogeneous health information systems
• Integration and sharing of heterogeneous health data sources
• Information and image retrieval
• Language parsing methods in biomedicine
• Modelling, simulation, and evaluation of healthcare services
• Mobile solutions for sharing information in healthcare services
• Patient tracking and monitoring: spatio-temporal models
• Privacy protection and data security in health informatics systems
• Process management and collaborative work
• Reuse in Health Information System development and maintenance
• Signal processing and streaming databases
• Spread and control of epidemics
• Social network modelling and analysis in health informatics
• User interfaces and visualization for health informatics systems
• Big data analytics and its applications

Authors are invited to submit a paper up to 8 pages (in English) in double-column IEEE format following the submission guidelines available at the IRI-2013 website. Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted by the paper submission deadline and following submission guidelines available at the IRI-2013 website - please select the Health Informatics Workshop track. All submissions will be acknowledged.

Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two to three experts in the topical area. Papers accepted by the workshops will be published in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. The best paper from the Workshop will be recognized for award presentation.

A select group of outstanding papers will be selected for publishing their expanded versions in a Special Issue of the "Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics" journal by Springer Publishing. In addition, a select group of outstanding papers will be selected for publishing their expanded versions in a Special Issue of the newly formed "Journal of Big Data", by Springer Publishing.

Important Dates:

	May 24 May 6,April 23, 2013	Submission of abstract (Recommended)
	May 30, May 10, April 30, 2013	Paper submission deadline
	June 17,June 3, May 31, 2013	Acceptance Notification
	June 28, June 17, June 7, 2013	Camera-ready paper due
	June 28, June 17, June 7, 2013	Author registration due
	TBA	Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author
	TBA	Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date
	August 14-16,2013	Conference events

 

Paper Submission:

Authors should follow the paper submission guidelines available at the IRI-2013 website. Please choose
the Health Informatics Workshop track when submitting a paper.

Workshop General Chair:

Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Naeem Seliya, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Keivan Kianmehr, TeraDada Inc, California, USA
Tansel Ozyer, TOBB University of Science and Technology, Turkey
Randall Wald, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Program Committee:

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