[AISWorld] CFP: Medical Informatics (NDT 2012)

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International Workshop on Medical Informatics
In conjunction with
The Fourth International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies
(NDT 2012)
April 24-26, 2012
Dubai
(www.ndtconf.org/workshop.php) 

Workshop Aim and Scope
The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from 
academia, industry and government institutions to exchange and share their 
experiences and research results about all aspects of Medical Informatics. 
The workshop will have special focus on practical challenges encountered and 
the solutions adopted in this field. 

Areas of Interest
The workshop program invites papers on various topics of interest to this 
Workshop including, but not limited to: 

    * Computer Applications in Public Health
    * Hospital-based Clinical Record Systems
    * Healthcare Practice Management Systems
    * Interoperable Health Systems
    * Patient Safety, Quality Improvement and Technology
    * Tele-health, E-prescribing and Patient Portals
    * Computing for Public Health Awareness
    * Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare
    * Artificial intelligence in Medical Informatics
    * Mobile Healthcare Services
    * Virtual Reality in Medicine
    * Healthcare Monitoring
    * Computer Assisted Intervention Systems and Robotics
    * Models and Systems for Healthcare Collaboration
    * Decision-Support Systems
    * Organizational Structures for Medical Informatics
    * Wireless Computing in Health Care Practice
    * Human performance engineering for Healthcare
    * Telemedicine
    * Bio-Ontology and Data Mining
    * Modeling and Simulation
    * Visual information interpretation
    * Human factors in systems
    * Security Issues in Health Care Network Development
    * Coding, Certification, and Healthcare Standards 

 

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline:            December 31, 2011
Paper Acceptance Notification:       January 31, 2012
Camera-ready Paper Submissions:  February 25,   2012 

Submission Instructions
Submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations. Papers 
should be submitted electronically as MS word. All papers will be fully 
refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, 
all referees' comments must be considered. Accepted papers will be published 
in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) of Springer 
LNCS.
Authors should format the papers according to the Springer template.
The detailed instruction for authors is available at Information for LNCS 
Authors 

Program Committee 


Chair:
Arnold Kim, Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute (TBRRI), Ontario, 
Canada. 

Co-Chairs:
Sabah Mohammed, Lakehead University, Canada
Richard Khoury, Lakehead University, Canada
Jinan Fiaidhi, Lakehead University, Canada
Kyle Galvin, Lakehead University, Canada