ACM IHI 2010 - 1st ACM International Conference on Health Informatics (ACM IHI 2010)

We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the 2010 ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010).

IHI 2010 is ACM's premier community forum concerned with the application of computer and information science principles as well as information and communication technology to problems in healthcare, public health, the delivery of healthcare services and consumer health informatics aspects, and finally, the related social and ethical issues on the use of computing technology in the health informatics domain.

IHI 2010 is primarily interested in serving as a venue for the discussion of technical contributions highlighting end-to-end applications, systems, and technologies, even if available only in prototype form (where a system is not deployed in production mode and/or evaluation may be performed by giving examples). We strongly encourage authors to submit their original contributions describing their algorithmic contributions, methodological contributions, and well-founded conjectures providing whenever possible an application-oriented context. A paper does not have to be comprehensive and can focus on a single aspect.

Contributions in the realm of social and behavioral issues might include empirical studies of health-related information use and needs, socio-technical studies on the implementation and use of health information technology, studies on health informatics in the context of community impact and implications, studies on public policies on leveraging health informatics infrastructure, among others.

Specific topics of interest for this conference cover various facets of health informatics research, including but not limited to the following:
Accessibility and Web-enabled technologies
Analytics applied to direct and remote clinical care
Assistive and adaptive ubiquitous computing technologies
Bio-surveillance
Brain computer interface
Cleaning, preprocessing, and ensuring quality and integrity of medical records
Comparative effectiveness research
Computational support for patient-centered and evidence-based care
Consumer and clinician health information needs, seeking, sharing and use
Consumer health and wellness informatics applications
Continuous monitoring and streaming technologies
Data management, privacy, security, and confidentiality
Display and visualization of medical data
E-commerce in health informatics
E-communities and networks for patients and consumers
E-healthcare infrastructure design
E-learning for spreading health informatics awareness
Engineering of medical data
Evaluation of health information system
E-visit system
Experience of building health information system
Health informatics education
Health information system framework and enterprise architecture in the developing world
Health IT project management
Health software design
Health system simulation
High-performance computing in healthcare
Human-centered design of health informatics systems
Information retrieval for health applications
Information technologies for the management of patient safety and clinical outcomes
Innovative applications in electronic health records (e.g., ontology or semantic technology, using continuous biomedical signals to trigger alerts)
Intelligent medical devices and sensors
Issues involving interoperability and data representation in healthcare delivery
Keyword and multifaceted search over structured electronic health records
Knowledge discovery for improving patient-provider communication
Large-scale longitudinal mining of medical records
Medical compliance automation for patients and institutions
Medical recommender system (e.g., medical products, fitness programs)
Multimodal medical signal analysis
Natural language processing for biomedical literature, clinical notes, and health consumer texts
Novel health information systems for chronic disease management
Open-source software in healthcare
Optimization models for planning and recommending therapies
Personalized predictive modeling for clinical management (e.g., trauma, diabetes mellitus, sleep disorders, substance abuse)
Physiological modeling
Public health informatics
Quality assurance
Semantic Web, linked data, ontology, and healthcare
Sensor networks and systems for pervasive healthcare
Social studies of health information technologies
Survival analysis and related methods for estimating hazard functions
System software for complex clinical studies that involve combinations of clinical, genetic, genomic, imaging, and pathology data
Systems for cognitive and decision support
Technologies for capturing and documenting clinical encounter information in electronic systems
Telecare
Telemedicine
User-interface design issues applied to medical devices and systems

Each contribution will be carefully evaluated by a set of reviewers, including experts with multidisciplinary experience spanning computing, information science, social and behavioral sciences, public health, medicine, and nursing as appropriate, to ensure that proper and comprehensive peer-review analysis and feedback can be provided to authors. Submissions will be judged on validity, originality, technical strength, practical and clinical significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference topics.

Because of IHI's multidisciplinary nature, the review process will include at least a computing expert and a health expert as well as a review editor to reconcile the evaluation, making a single recommendation to the Program Committee Co-Chairs. This process is designed to ensure that experts from multiple areas can assess the importance and validity of the work. Therefore, we encourage submissions from a variety of fields where in-depth application-centric ideas addressing important problems in health informatics are discussed.

The conference will accept both regular and short papers. Regular papers (6-10 pages in length) will describe more mature ideas, where a substantial amount of implementation, experimentation, or data collection and analysis will be described. Short papers (1-5 pages) can be less formal and will describe innovative ideas where a lesser degree of validation and implementation have occurred. All papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. The best papers of IHI 2010 will also be considered for journal publication in a special issue of Springer’s Journal of Medical Systems. Depending on the availability of time and space, not all papers will be given an oral presentation slot. Papers not selected for oral presentation will be available as posters. The conference organizers will work on ensuring that poster sessions are well attended and have a vibrant discussion environment.

Submitted papers must not have appeared in, or be under consideration for, another conference, workshop, journal, or other target of publication.

All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled electronically. Submissions must adhere to the following formatting instructions:
Papers must adhere to the ACM Proceedings Format available for LaTex, WordPerfect, WordPerfect 9, and Word. Changing the template's font size, margins, inter-column spacing, or line spacing is prohibited. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file, formatted for 8.5" x 11" paper.
The length of submission depends on the type of submission:
Regular papers must be 6-10 pages long.

Short papers may be at most 5 pages long.
Each paper must provide an appendix (which is excluded from the page limit) indicating the preferred review approach, including:
The preferred allocation of reviewing expertise. This can be done by electing the primary and secondary focus of the paper (e.g., Computing, Information Science, Medicine, Nursing, and Social/Behavioral Science).
A bulleted list with up to 3 topics covered in the paper (from the list of conference topics presented above)
Please submit your paper here.
IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline

June 2, 2010 11:30pm EST

Paper submission deadline

June 4, 2010 11:30pm EST

Notification of acceptance

August 6, 2010 11:30pm EST

Camera-ready copy due

August 16, 2010 11:30pm EST
CONTACT

General Chair
Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Henrique Andrade, IBM Research
Neil R. Smalheiser, University of Illinois, Chicago

COMPLETE LIST OF CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS