[AISWorld] Second CfP: Workshop ProHealth-2012 / KR4HC-2012
Mor Peleg
peleg.mor at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 07:19:18 EDT 2012
Call for papers: Workshop ProHealth-2012 / KR4HC-2012
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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
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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
International 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 entitled "The elicitation, representation, application, and
automated discovery of time-oriented declarative clinical knowledge: The
hidden aspect of supporting the automated application of procedural medical
knowledge" 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 Riano, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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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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