[AISWorld] First call for papers: 5th ProHealth’12 / 4th KR4HC’12 - joint workshop!

[Mor Peleg]

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Full Day Workshop ProHealth’12 / KR4HC’12
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5th International Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in
Healthcare
&
4th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care
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Tallinn, Estonia –  September 3rd, 2012

In conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Business Process
Management (BPM12)

Workshop Web site:
http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/events/prohealth_KR4HC_2012

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WORKSHOP GOALS
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Healthcare organizations are facing the challenge of delivering high
quality services to their patients at affordable costs. These challenges
become more prominent with the growth in the aging population with chronic
diseases and the rise of healthcare costs. High degree of specialization of
medical disciplines, huge amounts of medical knowledge and patient data to
be consulted in order to provide evidence-based re­com­mendations, and the
need for personalized healthcare are prevalent trends in this
information-intensive domain. The emerging situation necessitates
computer-based support of healthcare process & knowledge management as well
as clinical decision-making.

This workshop brings together researchers from two communities who have
been addressing these challenges from two different perspectives. The
knowledge-representation for healthcare community, which is part of the
larger medical informatics community, has been focusing on knowledge
representation and reasoning to support knowledge management and clinical
decision-making. This community has been developing efficient
representations, technologies, and tools for integrating all the important
elements that health care providers work with: Electronic Medical Records
(EMRs) and healthcare information systems, clinical practice guidelines,
and standardized medical vocabularies. The process-oriented information
systems in healthcare community, which is part of the larger business
process management (BPM) community, has been studying ways to adopt BPM
technology in order to provide effective solutions for healthcare process
management. BPM technology has been successfully used in other sectors for
establishing process-aware enterprise information systems (vs. collections
of stand-alone systems for different departments in the organization).
Adopting BPM technology in the healthcare sector is starting to address
some of the unique characteristics of healthcare processes, including their
high degree of flexibility, the integration with EMRs and shared semantics
of healthcare domain concepts, and the need for tight cooperation and
communication among medical care teams.

This joint workshop brings together two approaches: healthcare process
support, as addressed in previous ProHealth workshops, and healthcare
knowledge representation as dealt with in previous KR4HC workshops. The
workshop shall elaborate both the potential and the limitations of the two
approaches for supporting healthcare process & healthcare knowledge
management as well as clinical decision-making. It shall further provide a
forum wherein challenges, paradigms, and tools for optimized
knowledge-based clinical process support can be debated. We want to bring
together researchers and practitioners from these different, yet similar
fields to improve the understanding of domain specific requirements,
methods and theories, tools and techniques, and the gaps between IT support
and healthcare processes yet to be closed. This forum also provides an
opportunity to  explore how the approaches from the two communities could
be better integrated.

History of the Two Workshops

Providing computer-based support in healthcare is a topic that has been
picking up speed for more than two decades. We are witnessing a plethora of
different workshops devoted to various topics involving computer
applications for healthcare. Our goal has been to try to join forces with
other communities in order to learn from each other, advance science, and
create a stronger and larger community. The history of the two workshops,
KR4HC and ProHealth demonstrates the efforts we have done in that direction
so far, reaching this year, a joint workshop between communities who have
been actively holding such workshops since the year 2000.

The first KR4HC workshop, held in conjunction with the 12th Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine conference (AIME'09), brought together members of
two existing communities: the clinical guidelines and protocols community,
who held a line of four workshops (European Workshop on Computerized
Guidelines and Protocols (CPG'2000, CPG'2004); AI Techniques in Health
Care: Evidence-based Guidelines and Protocols 2006; Computer-based Clinical
Guidelines and Protocols 2008) and a related community who held a series of
three workshops / special tracks devoted to the formalization,
organization, and deployment of procedural knowledge in healthcare (CBMS’07
Special Track on Machine Learning and Management of Health Care Procedural
Knowledge 2007; From Medical Knowledge to Global Health Care 2007;
Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures 2008). Since then, two more
KR4HC workshops have been held, in conjunction with the ECAI’10 and the
AIME’11 conferences.

The first ProHealth workshop took place in the context of the 5th Int’l
Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) in 2007. The next three
ProHealth Workshops were also held in conjunction with BPM conferences
(BPM'08, BPM’09, and BPM’11). The aim of ProHealth has been to bring
together researchers from the BPM and the Medical Informatics communities.
As the workshop was associated with the BPM conference that had never been
attended by researchers from the Medical Informatics community, we had
included Medical Informatics researchers as keynote speakers of the
workshop, members of the program committee, and to our delight, saw a
number of researchers from the Medical Informatics community actively
participating in ProHealth workshops. Following the keynote talk given by
Manfred Reichert from the BPM community at the Artificial Intelligence in
Medicine 2011 (AIME’11) conference, where KR4HC was held, the organizers of
ProHealth and KR4HC workshops have shown their interest to hold their
workshops in conjunction as part of the BPM'12 conference, which marks a
landmark in the collaboration between the two communities. We are
continuing the efforts that started three years ago by members of the
Software Engineering in Health Care (SEHC) community to strengthen the
collaboration between the ProHealth and SEHC communities.


WORKSHOP THEME
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Original contributions are sought, regarding the development of theory,
techniques, and use cases of Artificial Intelligence and / or process
management in the area of healthcare, particularly connected to patient
data, clinical guidelines and healthcare processes.

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 the goals of the
workshop. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to the
following areas:

·       Process modeling in healthcare

·       Computer-interpretable clinical guidelines / protocols and decision
support

·       Workflow management in healthcare

·       Semantic integration of healthcare processes with electronic
medical records

·       Knowledge representation and ontologies for healthcare processes

·       Temporal knowledge representations and exploitation

·       Facilitating knowledge-acquisition of healthcare processes

·       Visualization, monitoring and mining healthcare processes

·       Knowledge extraction from healthcare databases and EPRs

·       Knowledge combination, personalization and adaptation of healthcare
processes

·       Compliance of healthcare processes

·       Evaluation of quality and safety of careflow systems

·       Managing flexibility and exceptions in healthcare processes

·       Process optimization and simulation in healthcare organizations and
healthcare networks

·       Experiences in deploying knowledge-based tools in healthcare

·       Patient empowerment in healthcare

·       Linking clinical care and clinical research

·       Lifecycle management for healthcare processes

·       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



FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
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The 1-day workshop will comprise accepted long and short papers, tool
presenta­tions, and 1-2 keynotes. Papers should be submitted in advance and
will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. An
informal proceedings will be available during the workshop. At least one
author for each accepted paper should register for the workshop and present
the paper. The selected best long (full) papers will be included in the
formal proceedings, which will be published as part of the LNAI Springer
series.


PAPER SUBMISSION
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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 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 LNCS  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, or tool report).



Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the Easychair
system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prohealth12kr4hc12)


IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 1 June 2012

Notification of Acceptance: 2 July 2012

Camera-ready version: 30 July 2012

ProHealth/KR4HC Workshop: 3 September 2012



KEYNOTE TALK
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A Keynote talk will be given by Prof. Yuval Shahar form Ben-Gurion
University, Israel.



WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
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Richard Lenz, University of Erlangen and Nuremberg, Germany

Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Mor Peleg, University of Haifa, Israel

Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany

David Riaסo, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


CONTACT PERSON
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Mor Peleg
Department of Information Systems
Rabin Bldg., room 7049
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 31905
E-Mail: morpeleg at is.haifa.ac.il
Tel: +972-4-824-9641


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University, Canada
Roberta Annicchiarico, Santa Lucia Hospital, Italy
Luca Anselma, Universitא di Torino, Italy
Joseph Barjis, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Oliver Bott, University of Applied Sciences and Art, Hanover, Germany
Fabio Campana, CAD RMB, taly
Adela Grando, UCSD, USA
Robert Greenes, Harvard University, USA
Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
David Isern, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Stefan Jablonski, Universitהt Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Katharina Kaiser, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Patty Kostkova, City University London, UK
Vassilis Koutkias, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Peter Lucas, University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Ronny Mans, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Mar Marcos, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Stefani Montani, Universitא del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
Bela Mutschler, Ulm University, Germany
״ystein Nytrר, Norwegian University of Science and Tehcnology,Norway
Leon Osterweil, University. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Silvana Quaglini, University of Pavia, Italy
Hajo Reijers, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Kitty Rosenbrand, CBO, The Netherlands
Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
Danielle Sent, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Brigitte Seroussi, STIM, DPA/DSI/AP-HP, France
Andreas Seyfang, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Ton Spil, University of Twente,The Netherlands
Maria Taboada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Paolo Terenziani, Univ. del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Italy
Lucineia Thom, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Samson Tu, Stanford University, USA
Dongwen Wang, University of Rochester, USA
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria

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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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