[CFP] 2011 International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics

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CALL FOR PAPERS
2011 International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics
in conjunction with 2011 IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2011)
November 12-15, 2011, Atlant, GA, USA
http://web.missouri.edu/~yooil/Workshop/BHI2011
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Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: October 5, 2011
Camera-ready of accepted papers: October 15, 2011
Workshop Day: Either November 12, 13, 14, or 15

# Full papers will be invited to submit extended versions for consideration of publication in a special issue of the BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (Impart Factor: 2.23, as of July 1, 2011)

Extended versions of 2008 BHI workshop papers were published in the BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedinformdecismak/9?issue=S1

Paper Submission Guideline

Length of paper:
- Full-paper: 8 pages
- Short-paper: 2 pages
Paper format: IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript format (Refer to the workshop homepage above)
File format: PDF only

Paper Topics (but not limited to)

Foundations of biomedicine and health informatics
Health information technology (HIT)
Evidence-based medical practice using HIT
Medical imaging informatics
Electronic health/medical record applications
Personal health record applications
Healthcare data warehouses
Human-computer interaction and usability in healthcare
Clinical Workflow and Human Factors
Health information modeling and sharing
Biomedical/Health database integration and management
Health Information retrieval and extraction
Research on MEDLINE/PubMed
Linguistic and semantic resources including dictionary and ontology
Extraction of functional information from biomedical literature
Biomedical ontology applications
Computer-aided annotation
Personalized medicine and drug discovery
Text mining in biomedicine/healthcare
Lessons learned from health information system implementation
Nursing Informatics
Clinical decision support
Healthcare IT Standards
Translational bioinformatics and biomedicine

Program Committee

Chikashi Nobata	University of Manchester, UK
Dimitri Theodoratos	New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Hong Yu	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
HongFang Liu	Mayo Clinic, USA
Hua Xu	Vanderbilt University, USA
Hune Cho	Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Korea
HwanJo Yu	POSTECH, Korea
Isabel Segura Bedmar	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Julio Facelli	University of Utah School of Medicine, USA
Kayvan Najarian	Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Luke Huan	University of Kansas, USA
Matthew Scotch	Arizona State University, USA
Shamkant Navathe	Georgia Tech, USA
Wook-Shin Han	Kyungpook National University, Korea
Yang Huang	Kaiser Permanente, USA
Yasunori Yamamoto	University of Tokyo, Japan
Youngja Park	IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Workshop Organizers

Illhoi Yoo, Ph.D.
University of Missouri School of Medicine
E-mail: yooil@health.missouri.edu

Min Song, Ph.D.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
E-mail: min.song@njit.edu

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