Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: September 23, 2018 September 30, 2018

• Notification of Acceptance: October 27, 2018 October 30, 2018

• Deadline for Camera-ready papers: November 15, 2018 (Camera-ready Paper Instruction, and Submission)

• Deadline for Workshop Author Registration: November 15, 2018

• Workshop Day: December 3-4, 2018

Conference Hotel

• NH Collection Madrid Eurobuilding, Madrid, Spain (Booking)

Description of the topics

The goal of biomedical and health informatics is to advance biomedicine and healthcare using information technologies. One of fundamental issues that healthcare/biomedical researchers encounter today is how to make use of the enormous amount of electronic healthcare/biomedical data. Healthcare knowledge discovery from the data holds great promise to improve the quality of patient care, prevent potential medical errors, and reduce healthcare cost. In addition, this may enable the practices of medicine to be (healthcare) data-driven and accelerate evidence-based medicine. Establishing a methodology for knowledge discovery and management of large amounts of health/biomedical data has therefore become a main priority in health informatics and biomedicine. To accomplish this objective, both practical applications and theoretical research will be essential.

Organized in conjunction with BIBM 2018, the goal of this workshop is to attract various researchers from both computer science, information science, biomedical informatics, biomedicine, and healthcare for sharing and exchanging their awareness of current research issues, technologies, and ideas. Papers are welcome from the following 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

• Data/Text mining in biomedicine/healthcare

• Lessons learned from health information system implementation

• Nursing Informatics

• Clinical decision support

• Healthcare IT Standards

• Translational bioinformatics and biomedicine

• Data/Text mining for precision medicine

Paper Submission Guideline

• Length of paper

  • Full-paper: 8 pages

  • Short-paper: 2 pages

• Paper format: IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Format

• File format: PDF only

• How to submit? Click on the Submission tab

All BHI workshop papers will be published in the main conference proceedings. The proceedings is indexed in PubMed (NLM ID is 101525347).

In order to solicit high-quality papers to the workshop, the workshop organizer will offer selected authors journal extension to have their best work published in a more extended format. The workshop organizer will select a small number of manuscripts submitted to the workshop for possible publication.

In 2018, selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making (5 year Impact Factor is 2.587). The article processing fee will be around US$1,355. The workshop organizer already completed a final agreement with the journal.

Previous Workshops

• 2017 BHI Workshop (Kansas City, MO, USA, November 3-16, 2017)

• 2016 BHI Workshop (Shenzhen, China, December 15, 2016)

• 2015 BHI Workshop (Washington D.C., USA, November 9-12, 2015)

• 2014 BHI Workshop (Belfast, UK, November 2-5, 2014)

• 2013 BHI Workshop (Shanghai, China, December 18-21, 2013)

• 2012 BHI Workshop (Philadelphia, USA, October 4-7, 2012)

• 2011 BHI Workshop (Atlanta, USA, November 12-15, 2011)

• 2008 BHI Workshop (Philadelphia, USA, November 3-5, 2008)

• 2007 KDMHI Workshop (Sillicon Valley, USA, November 2-4, 2007)

Workshop Organizer (Admin access)

Illhoi Yoo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Health Informatics

University of Missouri School of Medicine

E-mail: yooil  /AT/  health.missouri.edu