<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Call for Papers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ProHealth’11 </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4<sup>th</sup> International Workshop on
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Process-oriented Information Systems in
Healthcare<br>
<br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Clermont-Ferrand, France
–<span> </span>August 29<sup>th</sup> 2011</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br>
</span><span>In
conjunction with the 9<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Business
Process Management (BPM’11)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: CMR12;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Web Site: <a href="http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/prohealth-11.html" target="_blank">http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/prohealth-11.html</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Workshop Goals</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span>Healthcare organizations and providers are facing the challenge of
delivering high quality services to their patients at affordable costs. High
degree of specialization of medical disciplines, prolonged medical care for the
aging population, increased costs for dealing with chronic diseases, and the
need for personalized healthcare are prevalent trends in this information-intensive
domain. The emerging situation necessitates a change in the way healthcare is
delivered to the patients and healthcare processes are managed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span>BPM technology provides a key to implement these changes. T</span>hough
patient-centered process support becomes increasingly crucial in healthcare,
BPM technology has not yet been broadly used in healthcare environments. This
workshop shall elaborate both the potential and the limitations of IT support
for healthcare processes. It shall further provide a forum wherein challenges,
paradigms, and tools for optimized process support in healthcare can be
debated. We want to <span lang="EN-GB">bring
together researchers and practitioners from different communities (e.g., BPM, Information
Systems, Medical Informatics, E-Health) who share an interest in both healthcare
processes and BPM technologies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">The great success of the first three ProHealth
Workshops, which were held in conjunction with the 5<sup>th,</sup> 6<sup>th</sup>
and 7<sup>th</sup> International Conferences on Business Process Management
(BPM’07 and BPM'08, and BPM09), demonstrated the potential of such an
interdisciplinary forum to improve the understanding of domain specific
requirements, methods and theories, tools and techniques, and the gaps between
IT support and healthcare processes that are yet to be closed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Workshop Theme</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Enterprise-wide process-oriented
information systems have been demanded by healthcare institutions for over 20
years</span><span lang="EN-GB"> and terms like
“continuity of care” have even been discussed for over 50 years. Yet,
healthcare organizations are currently using a plethora of specialized
non-standard information systems and continue to focus on development of
systems for specialized departments that frequently only focus on their internal
processes. Many of the successful existing healthcare information systems are not
process-oriented, but focus on specific functions like imaging, drug
order-entry, laboratory test result storage, storage of diagnoses and progress
notes in electronic medical records, alerts and reminders, and billing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Information systems and
decision-support systems for managing <i>patient
care processes</i>, however, are still scarcely developed; and the latter is most
often accomplished by only a small number of university-led teams. Such patient
care management systems are highly complex and pose many challenges: they require
availability of encoded data coming from different sources, flexibility in
deviating from the encoded process at the discretion of the physician user, and
may involve a team of clinical users that together take care of a patient in a
coordinated way. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">The recent trend towards healthcare
networks and integrated care even increases the need to effectively support
interdisciplinary cooperation along with the patient treatment process. Recent
studies discussing the preventability of adverse events in medicine recommend
the use of information technology, since insufficient communication and missing
information turned out to be among the major factors contributing to adverse
events</span><span lang="EN-GB">. Yet, there is still a discrepancy
between the potential and the actual usage of IT in healthcare. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">This workshop <span lang="EN-GB">focuses on research projects which aim at
closing this gap. It </span>shall elaborate both the potential and the limitations
of IT support for healthcare processes, and discuss approaches existing in this
context.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Relevant topics include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Process modelling in healthcare</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Workflow management in
healthcare</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">IT support for guideline
implementation and decision support</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Visualization, monitoring and
mining of healthcare processes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Managing flexibility and
exceptions in healthcare processes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Process optimization in healthcare
organizations and healthcare networks</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Process patterns in healthcare</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Facilitating
knowledge-acquisition of healthcare processes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Compliance of healthcare
processes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Lifecycle management for
healthcare processes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Integrating healthcare
processes with electronic medical records</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Context-aware healthcare
processes </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ambient intelligence &
smart processes in healthcare</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mobile process support in
healthcare</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Process interoperability &
standards in healthcare</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Process-oriented system
architectures in healthcare</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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
healthcare processes. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Format of the Workshop</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">The 1-day workshop will comprise
accepted papers, tool presentations, and a keynote. Papers should be submitted
in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program
committee. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings
published<br>
by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)
series. There will be a single LNBIP volume dedicated to the proceedings of all
BPM workshops. As this volume will appear after the conference, there will be
informal proceedings during the workshop. At least one author for each accepted
paper should register for the workshop and present the paper.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paper Submission</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;">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 that has 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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;">Papers should be submitted in the <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0" target="_blank">LNBIP</a>
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/tool report).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via
the Easychair system. The corresponding link will be published within the next
days!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically
via the EasyChair System.To do so, please open an EasyChair account <span>and</span> submit a paper by going to <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prohealth11" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prohealth11</a>
(using the role of an author).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Intended
Audience</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">The ProHealth’11
workshop will deal with different facets of process-oriented information systems
in healthcare and it will give insights into the technological challenges,
applications, and perspectives emerging for BPM technology in this context</span>.
With varied contents, <span lang="EN-GB">we hope
to present a lively and inspiring program for participants from academia,
industry, and healthcare organizations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Important Dates</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deadline
for workshop paper submissions: 16 May 2011<br>
Notification of Acceptance: 10 June 2011</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera-ready
version: 30 June 2011<br>
ProHealth Workshop: 29 August 2011</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Workshop Co-Chairs</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Mor Peleg<br>
Senior Lecturer<br>
Department of Information Systems<br>
University of Haifa<br>
Haifa, 31905, Israel<br>
E-Mail: morpeleg(at)<a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/" target="_blank">mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prof. Dr. <span>Richard</span> Lenz<br>
University of Erlangen and Nuremberg<br>
Department of Computer Science 6<br>
(Data Management),<br>
Martensstraße 3<br>
91058 Erlangen, Germany<br>
E-Mail: richard.lenz(at)<a href="http://informatik.uni-erlangen.de/" target="_blank">informatik.uni-erlangen.de</a><br>
<br>
Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Ulm<br>
Institute of Databases and Information Systems</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">James-Franck-Ring</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">89069 Ulm, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="DE">E-Mail:
</span><span lang="DE">manfred.reichert(at)<a href="http://uni-ulm.de/" target="_blank">uni-ulm.de</a><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="DE"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Program Committee (to be confirmed)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Joseph Barjis, The Netherlands</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oliver Bott, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stefan Jablonski, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adela Grando, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Richard Lenz, Germany (co-Chair)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wendy MacCaull, Canada</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ronny Mans, The Netherlands</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Silvia Miksch, Austria</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bela Mutschler, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Øystein Nytrø, Norway</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Leon Osterweil,</span>
USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mor Peleg, Israel (co-Chair)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Manfred Reichert, Germany (co-Chair)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shazia Sadiq, Australia </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Danielle Sent, The Netherlands</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yuval Shahar, Israel</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ton Spil, The Netherlands</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Annette ten Teije, The Netherlands</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paolo Terenziani, Italy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lucineia Thom, Brazil</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dongwen Wang, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Barbara Weber, Austria</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Invited speaker</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Leon Osterweil, <a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Department of Computer Science</span></a>, University
of Massachusetts, <a href="http://laser.cs.umass.edu/people/ljo.html" target="_blank">http://laser.cs.umass.edu/people/ljo.html</a></span></p>
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Mor Peleg<br>Assoc. Prof. of Information Systems<br>Head, Department of Information Systems<br>University of Haifa, 31905, Israel<br>Email: <a href="mailto:morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank">morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il</a><br>
URL: <a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/" target="_blank">http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/</a><br>Phone: 972-4-824-9641<br>Fax: 972-4-828-8522 </div><br>
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