Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: September 16, 2019
Workshop Day: November 18-20, 2019
Conference transferred papers | Workshop directly submitted papers | |
Notification of Acceptance | October 2, 2019 | October 15, 2019 |
Deadline for Camera-ready papers (Camera-ready Paper Instruction and Submission) |
October 23, 2019 | November 1, 2019 |
Deadline for Author Registration | October 23, 2019 | November 1, 2019 |
Conference Hotel:
Hard Rock Hotel San Diego (207 5th Avenue, San Diego, CA, US, 92101)
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 2019, 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 available in IEEE XploreŽ Digital Library and is found in NLM Catalog (for PubMed).
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.
10 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$1600-1700. The journal editor and the BHI workshop completed a final agreement on this type of publications.
Paper Review Policy
The BHI workshop is the program committee (PC). The role of the workshop Chair is just to organize the committee. Each PC member is able to select papers for review based on their research interests and availability unlike the traditional review practice in which the Chair assigns papers to PC and they review the papers regardless of their interests. As a result, depending on PC's interests, some papers may not be reviewed by the PC at all. Those papers cannot be accepted and published since they are not even selected for review and thus the workshop cannot evaluate them.
Previous Workshops
2017 BHI Workshop (Kansas City, MO, USA, November 3-16, 2017)
2015 BHI Workshop (Washington D.C., USA, November 9-12, 2015)
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