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
- E-learning for spreading health informatics awareness
- Economics of health computing (e.g., cost-benefit analysis
- 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 and Telemedicine
- Virtual conferencing systems for healthcare
2. Health data acquisition and visualization, 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
- Continuous monitoring and streaming technologies for healthcare
- Data analytics for healthcare quality assurance
- Data model for health information system
- Disease profiling and personalized treatment
- Display and visualization of medical data
- Healthcare workflow mining
- Intelligent medical devices and sensors
- Large-scale longitudinal mining of medical records
- Medical insurance fraud detection
- Medical signal acquisition, archiving, and communication
- Medical signal analysis and processing
- Natural language processing and text mining for biomedical literature, clinical notes, and health consumer texts
- 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 data&knowledge management and decision support
- Biomedical modeling and simulation
- 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
- Disease diagnostic models
- Disease prognostic models
- Epidemiological modeling
- Health risk evaluation and modeling
- Healthcare knowledge abstraction, classification, and summarization
- Healthcare knowledge computerization, execution, inference, management, and representation
- Medical data management
- Medical recommender systems
- 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
- Semantic Web, linked data, ontology, and healthcare
- Statistics and quality of medical data
- Survival analysis and health hazard evaluations
- Visual analytics for healthcare
4. Health information systems
- Acceptance testing for healthcare systems and applications
- Applications in electronic health records
- Clinical information systems
- Cloud computing and big data for healthcare
- Consumer and clinician health information needs, seeking, sharing, and use
- Database design for health information systems
- Development and implementation of medical data and vocabulary standards
- E-visit system
- Evaluation of health information systems
- Experiences of building health information systems
- Health digital library
- Health information systems for chronic disease management
- Health IT project management
- Health software architecture, framework, design, and engineering
- Health systems simulation
- High-performance computing for healthcare
- 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
- Multi-agent systems for healthcare
- Open-source software for healthcare
- Pharmaco- and pharmacy informatics systems
- Privacy in healthcare
- Security in healthcare
- System integration for healthcare
- System software for clinical studies and translational research
- Trustworthy and secure infrastructures for health information systems
5. 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
6. 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