Health Informatics Scotland (HIS'13) - Call for Papers

18 - 19 September 2013, Edinburgh, UK.
The Health Informatics Scotland (HIS'13) conference is a leading annual conference and exhibition held to showcase the latest advances in the field of Health Informatics. Following the introduction of a very successful research stream in 2012, HIS'13 is now inviting submissions for: Research Papers, Presentations, Posters, and Workshop Proposals.

Presentations and posters will be welcomed from projects which have not yet been completed but which the author(s) feel is of such a standard to be included in the research stream.

Authors of full research papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for inclusion in a conference journal special issue.

The Themes of Interest for the 2013 conference include, but are not limited to:

  • Data exchange and integration within and between healthcare and allied settings
    (Interoperability, semantic interoperability, EPR & standards
  • Knowledge generation and use
    (data mining, knowledge management, decision support systems, physiological modelling, databases, data warehouses, pattern recognition and machine recognition, evaluation and use of HC IT)
  • The evolving Care-research interface
    (Practice-based methods for healthcare IT, patient safety and quality improvement)
  • Mobile healthcare applications and technologies
    (Telemedicine, wearable health informatics, mobile tech for healthcare apps)
  • Analytics
    (Healthcare management systems, data visualisation)
  • Systems and technologies
    (Therapeutic systems and technologies, Software systems in medicine, pervasive health systems and services, development of assistive technology, ICT aging and disability, clinical problems and applications, HMI for disabled persons)

Deadlines

  • 15th May 2013: Submission deadline for research papers (papers up to 5 pages) or presentations (2 page abstract) or workshop proposals (up to 2 page description).
  • 30th June 2013: Submission deadline for posters (1 page abstract).
  • 1st August 2013: Notification of acceptance to authors.
  • 18th / 19th September 2013: Health Informatics Scotland conference.

Submission
Abstracts for presentations and posters should be in double column format, with a font size not less than 10 points and margins of at least 2.5cm all around. Research papers should follow the ACM template, available on: www.acm.org/sigs/publications/pubform.doc

Research papers: up to 5 pages

Presentations: Abstract of up to 2 pages

Workshop proposals: Description up to 2 pages

Poster: Abstract of 1 page

Please submit your paper through the Easychair conference system, you will need to register for a username before submitting.

Register on easychair here: https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi

And then find HIS'13 here: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=his13
(select the HIS'13 conference and indicate if your submission is for a paper or poster abstract)

Organising Committee

  • Elizabeth Brooks, (Track Chair), University of the Highlands and Islands
  • Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Institute of Health & Well-Being, University of Glasgow
  • Mario Kolberg, Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling
  • Claudia Pagliari, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh
  • Mark McGilchrist, Health Informatics Centre, University of Dundee
  • Paul Woolman, NHS National Services Scotland

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