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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
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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.

REGISTRATION
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Registration Participants can register to the workflow only or to the
workshop in combination with the BPM conference at a

reduced price. Registration information can be found at
http://bpm2012.ut.ee/registration/

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: 4 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, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten,
Germany
Oystein Nytro, 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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