MAHA 2016 - ACM BCB Workshop on Methods and Applications in Healthcare Analytics

Healthcare is undergoing a massive transition, due to changes in payment incentives, growth of clinical data warehouses, advances in genome sequencing technology and digital imaging, as well as the increased role of the patient in managing their own health information and rapid accumulation of biomedical knowledge. As a result, data analytics techniques, for knowledge discovery and deriving data driven insights from various data sources, are increasingly important in modern healthcare. Although, effective analytical approaches have been applied in many healthcare problems, several challenges remain including: data heterogeneity, sparsity, irregular sampling and the difficulty of drawing inferences from such data. This proposed workshop will focus on novel methodologies and their applications in addressing these emerging healthcare analytics problems from both academia and industry.
Website
https://sites.google.com/site/feiwang03/acm-bcb-wo...
Topics to Be Covered
*Analytics Methodologies
--Active Learning
--Clinical alerting and outlier detection
--Cloud/Distributed-computing models and scalability
--Collaborative care delivery models
--Combining knowledge and data drive insights
--Disease progression modeling
--Intelligent payment models
--Privacy-preserving methods
--Sparse modeling and optimization methods
--Temporal analysis
--Visual analytics
*Healthcare Applications
--Clinical dashboards
--Clinical decision support system
--Clinical pathway analysis
--Comparative effectiveness research
--Precision medicine
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: June 20, 2016.
Notification: July 20, 2016.
Camera-Ready: July 27, 2016.
Submission Instruction
All submissions should be made to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maha16. Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. The workshop's technical program committee will review all submissions on the basis of their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees.
Organizers
Fei Wang. University of Connecticut.
Jyotishman Pathak. Cornell University.
Nigam Shah. Stanford University.