NetMed 2013 - Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and NetMedicine

Medical tele-reporting and second-opinion over the Internet are nowadays cost-effective and widely adopted practices. Physicians and general practitioners make daily use of tele-consultation over the WEB, VOIP, chat and video-conferencing. Social networking favors the constitution of large communities of members sharing similar medical interests, so that TeleMedicine is rapidly turning into what we call NetMedicine, which simply denotes every Health-related activity which is carried on through the Internet.
Since its inception and along all its history, Artificial Intelligence served the Medicine, under both its souls, the logicistic and the connessionistic ones. But in the current digitally networked and hyperlinked e-Health scenario, Artificial Intelligence has to play also new important roles. Today we urge intelligent software to semantically interpret and filter diagnostic data, automatically classify and convey medical information, virtualize nurses and hospital lanes to reduce the costs of healthcare, etc.
This one-day workshop aims at bringing together scholars and practitioners active in Artificial Intelligence driven Health Informatics, to present and discuss their research, share their knowledge and experiences, define key research challenges and explore possible international collaborations to advance the intelligent practice of Medicine over the Internet.
Relevant Topics
Participants are invited to submit papers on all research and application aspects of Artificial Intelligence driven e-Health, including, but not limited to:
Tele-Health and Telemonitoring over the Internet
Collaborative care and communication
Intelligent devices and instruments
Ontology modeling and reasoning in Health Information Engineering and Systems
SNOMED CT
Patient care, monitoring and diagnosis
AI-based clinical decision making
Clinical Evidence-Based decision support systems
Architectures of Electronic Health Records
AI in medical education
Medical knowledge engineering
Medical data mining
Modelling and simulation
Implementation and case studies
Intelligent Visualization in Medicine
Intelligent Medical Information Systems
Intelligent health records
Automated Reasoning and Metareasoning in Medicine
Philosophical, Ethical, and Social issues of AI in Medicine
Extending quality healthcare to rural communities
Health Informatics in the developing world
Social Networks for improved Health Education
Patient Centric (and evidence-based) Decision Support Systems
Submissions reporting on case studies in a medical context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses and strength in sufficient depth.