[AISWorld] International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH) 2017 Call For Papers

[Xin Li]

Dear Colleagues,

International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH), originated in 2013, 
intends to provide a forum for the growing international smart health 
research community to discuss the technical, practical, economic, 
behavioral, and social issues associated with smart health. ICSH 
welcomes studies on the principles, approaches, models, frameworks, new 
applications, and effects of using novel information technology to 
address healthcare problems and improve social welfare.

In 2017, ICSH will come to the City University of Hong Kong.
Important Dates
– Submission Deadline: Mar 1st, 2017
– Conference Dates: Jun 26th-27th, 2017
Conference Co-Chairs
– Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
– Elena Karahanna, University of Georgia
– Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona, and Chinese Academy of Sciences
Conference Website
– http://www.icsh2017.org

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes 
in Computer Science (LNCS). Extended versions of selected papers will be 
considered for publication by IEEE Intelligent Systems (IEEE IS), 
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), and Pacific Asia 
Journal of the Association for Information Systems (PAJAIS).

The conference will feature an MIS Quarterly health analytics workshop, 
which will invite established scholars to discuss their insights and 
experience on publishing healthcare informatics studies in top-tier 
journals.

Here we sincerely invite submissions from the following (or related) 
areas. We would appreciate it if you can help forwarding the message to 
people who may interested in this conference.

Topics of Interest:
I. Information Systems for Clinical Practice and Training
♦ EHR Application & Integration
♦ Computer-aided Diagnosis
♦ Visual Analytics for Healthcare
♦ Telehealth Applications
♦ IS for Mental Healthcare
♦ IS for Patient-centered & Evidence-based Care
♦ Virtual Patient Modeling for Training
♦ Innovative Design of New Health Information Systems and Clinical 
Decision Support Tools
II. Clinical and Medical Data Modeling & Analytics
♦ Disease Profiling and Precision Medicine
♦ Healthcare Predictive Modeling & Patient Support
♦ Text Mining for EHR and Clinical Unstructured Data
♦ Information Retrieval for Healthcare Applications
♦ Pharmacy Informatics Systems & Drug Discovery
♦ Side-effect & Drug Interaction
♦ Medical Data Management
♦ Data Standards (FHIR, inter-operability, etc.) & Healthcare IT
♦ Disease Surveillance & Epidemics Forecasting/Intervention
♦ Prediction of Emergent Events with Healthcare Impacts
III. Community, Social Media, and Knowledge Management
♦ Online Patient Communities
♦ Online/offline Support Groups
♦ IS for Patient Education, Learning and Involvement
♦ Role of IS in Patient Data Generation/Collection
♦ Healthcare Knowledge Classification and Summarization
♦ Health Information Needs, Seeking, Sharing, & Use
♦ Social media applications
IV. Smart/Mobile Devices for Healthcare
♦ Assistive Devices for Individuals with Special Needs
♦ Mobile / Wearable Devices in Wellness
♦ Intelligent Medical Devices & Sensors
♦ Continuous Monitoring & Streaming Technologies for Healthcare
♦ Virtual & Augmented Reality for Healthcare
♦ Computer Support for Surgical Intervention
♦ Localized Data for Improving Emergency Care
♦ Smart Devices for Healthy Life Styles and Better Self-care
V. Management of Smart Health Systems
♦ Adoption and Use of Clinical Decision Support
♦ Adoption and Management of Smart Health Devices
♦ Healthcare Workflow Management
♦ Real-time Analytics & Optimization in Healthcare Operations
♦ Managing the Use of Health IT by Care Providers
♦ Privacy, Security & Trust Issues in Health System Use
♦ Data Quality of Clinical & Patient-generated Data
VI. Smart Health Business, Social, and Economic Issues
♦ Patient & Physician Engagement & Relationships under IT
♦ Impact of Health IT on Small & Rural Communities
♦ Impact & Management of IT on Healthcare Access, Costs, Delivery, & 
Outcomes
♦ Accountable Smart Health, Reporting, Pricing, & Auditing
♦ Value-based Care & Care Pricing Models
♦ New Business Models for Healthcare IT
♦ IT & Public Health
♦ Population Health Management - Clinical & Financial impact
♦ Impact of New HIPAA Guidelines on Privacy and Security
♦ Meta-studies of Community, National & International Programs

Regards,
Indranil Bardhan, University of Texas at Dallas
Jiexun Li, Western Washington University
Xin Li, City University of Hong Kong
(Program Co-Chairs of ICSH 2017)