BHI 2012 - 2012 International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics

he goal of biomedical and health informatics is to advance biomedicine and healthcare using information technologies. One of fundamental issues that healthcare/biomedical researchers encounter today is how to make use of the enormous amount of electronic healthcare/biomedical data. Healthcare knowledge discovery from the data holds great promise to improve the quality of patient care, prevent potential medical errors, and reduce healthcare cost. In addition, this may enable the practices of medicine to be (healthcare) data-driven and accelerate evidence-based medicine. Establishing a methodology for knowledge discovery and management of large amounts of health/biomedical data has therefore become a main priority in health informatics and biomedicine. To accomplish this objective, both practical applications and theoretical research will be essential.
Organized in conjunction with BIBM 2012, the goal of this workshop is to attract various researchers from both computer science, information science, biomedical informatics, biomedicine, and healthcare for sharing and exchanging their awareness of current research issues, technologies, and ideas. Papers are welcome from the following topics (but not limited to):
Foundations of biomedicine and health informatics
Health information technology (HIT)
Evidence-based medical practice using HIT
Medical imaging informatics
Electronic health/medical record applications
Personal health record applications
Healthcare data warehouses
Human-computer interaction and usability in healthcare
Clinical Workflow and Human Factors
Health information modeling and sharing
Biomedical/Health database integration and management
Health Information retrieval and extraction
Research on MEDLINE/PubMed
Linguistic and semantic resources including dictionary and ontology
Extraction of functional information from biomedical literature
Biomedical ontology applications
Computer-aided annotation
Personalized medicine and drug discovery
Text mining in biomedicine/healthcare
Lessons learned from health information system implementation
Nursing Informatics
Clinical decision support
Healthcare IT Standards
Translational bioinformatics and biomedicine