The advancement in technology and computational science influenced a wide range of fields, including research in clinical leading to health informatics as emerging vital research area which is attracting more attention in academia and industry. Health informatics combines computational science and the clinical world for better treatment of patients; it deals with resources, devices, and methodologies required for optimizing the acquisition, storage, maintenance, retrieval, and use of healthcare information and resources for effective diagnosis and treatment of patients.
The target of this research track is to bring together professionals, researchers and practitioners in the area of health informatics to present, discuss, share the latest finding in the field, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions.
Topics covered by HI-BI-BI 2012 include but are not limited to work in progress as well as cutting-edge and novel findings on the latest trends and developments in health informatics, encompassing areas such as:
Clinical and hospital human resource management and performance analysis
Computer aided diagnosis.
Computational biomedicine, genomics, proteomics,
transcriptomics, metabolimics, sociogenomics
Controlled and optimized utilization of resources
Data analysis and disease biomarker prediction
Data mining and machine learning techniques in health informatics.
Drug design, disease diagnosis and control
e-health and web-based information services
Evaluation and use of information technology in healthcare
Healthcare applications of mobile and pervasive technologies
Human-computer interaction
Future developments in technologies and applications
Intelligent Health Information Systems& Decision Support Systems
Integration and sharing of heterogeneous health information systems
Integration and sharing of heterogeneous health data sources
Information and image retrieval
Language parsing methods in biomedicine
Modelling, simulation and evaluation of healthcare services
Mobile solutions for sharing information in healthcare services
Patient tracking and monitoring: spatio-temporal models
Privacy protection and data security in health informatics systems
Process management and collaborative work
Reuse in Health Information System development and maintenance
Signal processing and streaming databases
Spread and control of epidemics
Social network modelling and analysis in health informatics
User interfaces and visualization for health informatics systems
We encourage researchers to submit full research papers (8 pages), short research papers (6 pages), and posters (2 pages) reporting work in progress. All accepted papers from the three types of submissions will be included in the proceedings to be published by IEEE CPS. Full and short papers will be scheduled for presentation during the conference. Posters will be included in the poster session, which is open for discussion with participants. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for journal publication.
Papers should be submitted to the Conference Submission System. If Web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to: ozyer (at) etu (dot) edu (dot) tr or tnjarada (at) ucalgary (dot) ca by April 15, 2012. The attachment must be in PDF format.
Important Dates: Submission of abstract (Recommended) April 8, 2012 Paper submission deadline April 15, 2012 Acceptance Notification May 20, 2012 Camera-ready paper due May 31, 2012 Presenting authors registration due May 31, 2012 Conference events August 27-28, 2012
General Chair: Jon Rokne University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Symposium co-chairs: Tansel Özyer TOBB University, Ankara Turkey Jia Zeng, Baylor College of Medicine, Huston, TX, USA Mehmet Tan TOBB University, Ankara Turkey Ghada Naji Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon