CFP: 1st International Workshop on Information Technology for Patient Safety
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1st International Workshop on Information Technology for Patient
Safety (ITPS 2009)
http://ivibis.ctr.teilam.gr/itps09.htm
held in conjunction with ITAB 2009
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/itab2009/itab2009/
November 5-7, 2009, Larnaca, Cyprus
Errors in healthcare are recognized causes of adverse events
threatening patient safety. Recent studies are alerting on the number,
the magnitude and the consequences of such errors, and have raised
patient safety to the top of the healthcare agenda worldwide.
Information technology is increasingly becoming the number one weapon
against avoidable adverse healthcare events by providing essential
tools for the monitoring of healthcare processes, and for the
automatic reporting, analysis and prevention of healthcare errors.
The International Workshop on Information Technology for Patient
Safety, held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on
Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine ITAB 2009, is
envisaged as a compilation of the latest trends and developments in
the field of information technology for patient safety.
The workshop aims to enable interaction and knowledge exchange with
researchers actively involved in this field. It is organized in the
framework of the project DEBUGIT (Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria
UsinG Information Technologies), which focuses on building information
technology tools that should have significant impacts for the
monitoring and control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial
resistances in Europe. DEBUGIT is funded by the European Commission's
Seventh Framework Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme,
ICTs for Health (contract no. 217139).
The workshop will be open to all the participants of the ITAB 2009
conference and will include only peer reviewed papers. Selected papers
of the conference (including those of the proposed workshop) will be
invited to various special issues, including a special issue on the
IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine. High quality
contributions on patient safety issues from the fields of medical
informatics, biomedical engineering and bioinformatics are welcome.
Specific topics may include, without being limited to, the following:
- Standardization and interoperability in healthcare
- Clinical information systems
- Ontologies
- Data mining and knowledge discovery
- Pattern recognition
- Signal/image processing and analysis
- Artificial intelligence
- Expert and decision support systems
Paper submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than four
(4) pages in IEEE format including results, figures and references.
Paper submission and registration will be handled by the conference
management system of the ITAB conference
(http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/itab2009/itab2009/). All accepted papers will
be included in the proceedings of ITAB 2009 to be published by the
IEEE. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend
the workshop for presentation.
Important Dates
July 5, 2009 Paper submission
July 30, 2009 Notification of acceptance
August 30, 2009 Camera-ready submission and author registration
Workshop organizer
Dr. Dimitris K. Iakovidis
Department of Informatics & Computer Technology
Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Lamia, Greece
dimitris....@ieee.org
Scientific committee (in alphabetical order)
Martin Boeker, University of Freiburg, Germany
Dirk Colaert, Agfa Healthcare, Belgium
Stavros Karkanis, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece
Christian Lovis, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
Patrick Ruch, University of Applied Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland
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