[AISWorld] 4th ProHealth Workshop: call for papers: May 16

Mor Peleg peleg.mor at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 16:27:43 EDT 2011 

*Call for Papers*

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*ProHealth’11 *

*4th International Workshop on *

*Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare

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Clermont-Ferrand, France –  August 29th 2011


In conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Business Process
Management (BPM’11)



Web Site: http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/prohealth-11.html

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*Workshop Goals*

Healthcare organizations and providers are facing the challenge of
delivering high quality services to their patients at affordable costs. High
degree of specialization of medical disciplines, prolonged medical care for
the aging population, increased costs for dealing with chronic diseases, and
the need for personalized healthcare are prevalent trends in this
information-intensive domain. The emerging situation necessitates a change
in the way healthcare is delivered to the patients and healthcare processes
are managed.



BPM technology provides a key to implement these changes. Though
patient-centered process support becomes increasingly crucial in healthcare,
BPM technology has not yet been broadly used in healthcare environments.
This workshop shall elaborate both the potential and the limitations of IT
support for healthcare processes. It shall further provide a forum wherein
challenges, paradigms, and tools for optimized process support in healthcare
can be debated. We want to bring together researchers and practitioners from
dif­ferent communities (e.g., BPM, Information Systems, Medical Informatics,
E-Health) who share an interest in both healthcare processes and BPM
technologies.



The great success of the first three ProHealth Workshops, which were held in
conjunction with the 5th, 6th and 7th International Conferences on Business
Process Management (BPM’07 and BPM'08, and BPM09), demonstrated the
potential of such an interdisciplinary forum to improve the understanding of
domain specific requirements, methods and theories, tools and techniques,
and the gaps between IT support and healthcare processes that are yet to be
closed.





*Workshop Theme*

Enterprise-wide process-oriented information systems have been demanded by
healthcare institutions for over 20 years and terms like “continuity of
care” have even been discussed for over 50 years. Yet, healthcare
organizations are currently using a plethora of specialized non-standard
information systems and continue to focus on development of systems for
specialized departments that frequently only focus on their in­ternal
processes. Many of the successful existing healthcare information systems
are not process-oriented, but focus on specific functions like imaging, drug
order-entry, laboratory test result storage, storage of diagnoses and
progress notes in electronic medical records, alerts and reminders, and
billing.

Information systems and decision-support systems for managing *patient care
processes*, however, are still scarcely developed; and the latter is most
often accomplished by only a small number of university-led teams. Such
patient care management systems are highly com­plex and pose many
challenges: they require availability of encoded data coming from different
sources, flexibility in deviating from the encoded process at the discretion
of the physician user, and may involve a team of clinical users that
together take care of a patient in a coordinated way.

The recent trend towards healthcare networks and inte­grated care even
increases the need to effec­tively support interdisciplinary cooper­ation
along with the patient treatment process. Recent studies discussing the
preven­tability of adverse events in medicine recommend the use of
information technology, since insufficient communication and missing
information turned out to be among the major factors contributing to adverse
events. Yet, there is still a discrepancy between the potential and the
actual usage of IT in healthcare.

This workshop focuses on research projects which aim at closing this gap. It
shall ela­borate both the potential and the limitations of IT support for
healthcare processes, and discuss approaches existing in this context.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

   - Process modelling in healthcare
   - Workflow management in healthcare
   - IT support for guideline implementation and decision support
   - Visualization, monitoring and mining of healthcare processes
   - Managing flexibility and exceptions in healthcare processes
   - Process optimization in healthcare organizations and healthcare
   networks
   - Process patterns in healthcare
   - Facilitating knowledge-acquisition of healthcare processes
   - Compliance of healthcare processes
   - Lifecycle management for healthcare processes
   - Integrating healthcare processes with electronic medical records
   - Context-aware healthcare processes
   - Ambient intelligence & smart processes in healthcare
   - Mobile process support in healthcare
   - Process interoperability & standards in healthcare
   - Process-oriented system architectures in healthcare

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Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance,
originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly
establish their research contribution and the relation to healthcare
processes.

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*Format of the Workshop*

The 1-day workshop will comprise accepted papers, tool presentations, and a
keynote. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at
least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers will
appear in the workshop proceedings published
by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)
series. There will be a single LNBIP volume dedicated to the proceedings of
all BPM workshops. As this volume will appear after the conference, there
will be informal proceedings during the workshop. At least one author for
each accepted paper should register for the workshop and present the paper.

*Paper Submission*

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of
the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Three types
of submissions are possible: (1) full papers (12 pages long) reporting
mature research results, (2) position papers reporting research that may be
in preliminary stage that has not yet been evaluated, and (3) tool reports.
Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers
must present original research contributions not concurrently submitted
elsewhere.

Papers should be submitted in the
LNBIP<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0>format.
The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of
the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an
indica­tion of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool
report).

Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the Easychair
system. The corresponding link will be published within the next days!



Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair
System.To do so, please open an EasyChair account and submit a paper by
going to  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prohealth11 (using the
role of an author).




*Intended Audience*

The ProHealth’11 workshop will deal with different facets of
process-oriented information systems in healthcare and it will give insights
into the technological challenges, applications, and perspectives emerging
for BPM technology in this context. With varied contents, we hope to present
a lively and inspiring program for participants from academia, industry, and
healthcare organizations.

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*Important Dates*

Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 16 May 2011
Notification of Acceptance: 10 June 2011

Camera-ready version: 30 June 2011
ProHealth Workshop: 29 August 2011

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*Workshop Co-Chairs*



Dr. Mor Peleg
Senior Lecturer
Department of Information Systems
University of Haifa
Haifa, 31905, Israel
E-Mail: morpeleg(at)mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il



Prof. Dr. Richard Lenz
University of Erlangen and Nuremberg
Department of Computer Science 6
(Data Management),
Martensstraße 3
91058 Erlangen, Germany
E-Mail: richard.lenz(at)informatik.uni-erlangen.de

Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert

University of Ulm
Institute of Databases and Information Systems

James-Franck-Ring

89069 Ulm, Germany

E-Mail: manfred.reichert(at)uni-ulm.de

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*Program Committee (to be confirmed)*



Joseph Barjis, The Netherlands

Oliver Bott, Germany

Stefan Jablonski, Germany

Adela Grando, USA

Richard Lenz, Germany (co-Chair)

Wendy MacCaull, Canada

Ronny Mans, The Netherlands

Silvia Miksch, Austria

Bela Mutschler, Germany

Øystein Nytrø, Norway

Leon Osterweil, USA

Mor Peleg, Israel (co-Chair)

Manfred Reichert, Germany (co-Chair)

Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands

Shazia Sadiq, Australia

Danielle Sent, The Netherlands

Yuval Shahar, Israel

Ton Spil, The Netherlands

Annette ten Teije, The Netherlands

Paolo Terenziani, Italy

Lucineia Thom, Brazil

Dongwen Wang, USA

Barbara Weber, Austria



*Invited speaker*

Leon Osterweil, Department of Computer Science <http://www.cs.umass.edu/>,
University of Massachusetts, http://laser.cs.umass.edu/people/ljo.html




-- 
Mor Peleg
Assoc. Prof. of Information Systems
Head, Department of Information Systems
University of Haifa, 31905, Israel
Email: morpeleg at is.haifa.ac.il
URL: http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/
Phone: 972-4-824-9641
Fax: 972-4-828-8522
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