CONFERENCE TOPICS

     

    Specific topics of interest for this conference cover various facets of health informatics research, including but not limited to the following:
 
    1. Information technologies for healthcare delivery and management
     
    - Comparative effectiveness research
    - Consumer health and wellness informatics applications
    - E-commerce in health informatics 
    - Economics of health computing (e.g., cost-benefit analysis)
    - E-learning for spreading health informatics awareness
    - Health informatics education
    - Healthcare delivery in developing countries
    - Healthcare workflow management
    - Information technologies for alternative medicine
    - Information technologies for healthcare service delivery
    - Information technologies for hospital management
    - Information technologies for the management of patient safety and clinical outcomes
    - Medical compliance automation for patients and institutions
    - Organizational impacts of health information technologies
    - Public health informatics
    - Social studies of health information technologies
    - Technology informatics guiding educational reform
    - Telecare
    - Telemedicine
    - Virtual conferencing systems for healthcare

2. Health data acquisition, management, and visualization

    - Continuous monitoring and streaming technologies for healthcare
    - Data model for health information system
    - Disease profiling and personalized treatment
    - Display and visualization of medical data
    - Intelligent medical devices and sensors
    - Medical data management
    - Medical signal acquisition, archiving, and communication
    - RFID solutions for healthcare
    - Technologies for capturing and documenting clinical encounter information in electronic systems
    - Virtual and augmented reality for healthcare
    - Virtual patients

3. Healthcare knowledge management and decision support

    - Business intelligence and data warehousing for healthcare
    - Cognitive and decision support systems
    - Computational intelligence methodologies for healthcare
    - Computational support for patient-centered and evidence-based care
    - Computer support for surgical intervention
    - Computer-aided diagnosis
    - Healthcare knowledge abstraction, classification, and summarization 
    - Healthcare knowledge computerization, execution, inference, management, and representation
    - Medical recommender systems
    - Semantic Web, linked data, ontology, and healthcare

4. Healthcare modeling and simulation

    - Biomedical modeling and simulation
    - Disease diagnostic models
    - Disease prognostic models
    - Epidemiological modeling
    - Health risk evaluation and modeling
    - Operations research methods for healthcare
    - Optimization models for planning and recommending therapies
    - Personalized predictive modeling for clinical management (e.g., cancer, trauma, diabetes mellitus, sleep disorders, substance abuse)
    - Physiological modeling

5. Data analytics, data mining, and machine learning

    - Analytics for clinical care
    - Biomarker discovery and biomedical model development
    - Biomedical data mining
    - Biomedical pattern recognition
    - Cleaning, pre-processing, and ensuring quality and integrity of medical data
    - Data analytics for healthcare quality assurance
    - Healthcare workflow mining
    - Large-scale longitudinal mining of medical records
    - Medical insurance fraud detection
    - Medical signal analysis and processing
    - Natural language processing and text mining for biomedical literature, clinical notes, and health consumer texts
    - Statistics and quality of medical data
    - Survival analysis and health hazard evaluations
    - Visual analytics for healthcare

6. Health information system engineering

    - Acceptance testing for healthcare systems and applications 
    - Cloud computing for healthcare
    - Database design for health information systems
    - Experiences of building health information systems
    - Health IT project management
    - Health software architecture, framework, design, and engineering
    - Health systems simulation
    - High-performance computing for healthcare
    - Multi-agent systems for healthcare
    - System integration for healthcare
    - Trustworthy and secure infrastructures for health information systems

7. Health information systems

    - Applications in electronic health records
    - Clinical information systems
    - Consumer and clinician health information needs, seeking, sharing, and use
    - Development and implementation of medical data and vocabulary standards
    - Evaluation of health information systems
    - E-visit system
    - Health digital library
    - Health information systems for chronic disease management
    - Information retrieval for health applications
    - Intelligent personal health records
    - Issues involving interoperability and data representation in healthcare delivery
    - Keyword and multifaceted search over structured electronic health records
    - Open-source software for healthcare 
    - Pharmaco- and pharmacy informatics systems
    - Privacy in healthcare
    - Security in healthcare
    - System software for clinical studies and translational research

8. Healthcare communication networks and environments

    - Assistive and adaptive ubiquitous computing technologies for healthcare
    - Collaboration technologies for healthcare
    - Computer games for healthcare
    - E-communities, social networks, and social media for patients and caregivers
    - Health portals 
    - Healthcare communication system performance and adaptability
    - Peer-to-peer networks for healthcare
    - Sensor networks and systems for pervasive healthcare
    - Social media analysis and mining for healthcare applications

9. Interactions with health information technologies

    - Accessibility and Web-enabled technologies for healthcare
    - Affective computing for healthcare
    - Automated generation of textual document and multimedia content for healthcare
    - Biological effects of medical devices
    - Bio-surveillance
    - Communication interventions between patients and care providers
    - Consumer health literacy, numeracy, and graphicacy
    - Human factors (ergonomics) in health information systems
    - Medical biometrics
    - Medical robotics
    - Physiological computing (e.g., brain computer interface)
    - Speech, gesture, and handwriting acquisition and recognition for healthcare
    - Usability studies in healthcare
    - User-interface design for medical devices and health software