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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
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- 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

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# Paper Submission Guideline
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- Length of paper:
o Full-paper: 8 pages
o Short-paper: 2 pages
- Paper format: IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript format
- File format: PDF only

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# Paper Topics (but not limited to)
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- 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

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# Program Committee
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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

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# Workshop Organizers
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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