<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">WORKSHOP ON INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE </span>2011<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Co-located with the American Medical Informatics Association’s Fall Symposium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">October 22,</span> 2011<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Washington Hilton, Washington, DC</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><i><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Sponsored by: ACM, AMIA, Georgia Institute of Technology, Microsoft Research, Northeastern University, NSF, AHRQ</span></i></p>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">***OVERVIEW***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; ">
<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">With the growing emphasis on the adoption and impact of Health IT (HIT), HIT researchers and practitioners are increasingly focusing on the design of interactive systems, human factors, and human-computer interaction. Despite this progress, however, there exists a largely untapped potential to create deeper and more profound connections among the biomedical, informatics, human-computer interaction, human factors, medical sociology, and anthropology communities that would lead to the development of new methods, approaches, and techniques for removing the barriers to the adoption of HIT.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">To address this limitation, the Association of Computing and Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010) hosted the 2010 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH 2010, </span><a href="http://www.chi2010.org/wish/" target="_blank">http://www.chi2010.org/wish/</a><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">). The workshop attracted over 150 participants from a variety of disciplines and institutions and included a combination of invited panels, keynote talks, and research presentations. At</span> WISH <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">2010, researchers and practitioners discussed the most pressing issues in the design, development, and evaluation of HIT and the impact of new research on commercial HIT systems.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">***INVITATION TO ATTEND WISH 2011***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">You are cordially invited to attend WISH 2011, hosted by the American Medical Informatics Association and collocated with its Annual Symposium in Washington, DC, on October 22,</span> 2011<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">. Building on the success of WISH 2010, the workshop will be a part of the pre-AMIA program and will have a format similar to</span> last year’s workshop<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">, including invited panels, a peer-reviewed technical program and an interactive poster reception. In addition, the workshop will include keynote talks by Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Dr. William Stead (Vanderbilt University).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">We encourage anyone interested in the topic of interactive systems in healthcare to join us for what will be a stimulating day of presentations, discussion and idea sharing amongst an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; ">***REGISTRATION***</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; ">
Through the generous support of our sponsors, registration costs have been significantly lowered. Information on registering can be found here: <a href="http://wish2011.wordpress.com/attending/" target="_blank">http://wish2011.wordpress.com/attending/</a>. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; ">***HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS***</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; ">
WISH 2011 will be held at the Washington Hilton (<a href="http://www.amia.org/amia2011/hotel" target="_blank">http://www.amia.org/amia2011/hotel</a>), the same hotel at which the AMIA Annual Symposium will be held. Attendees wishing to book their hotel reservation at the Hilton should do so soon as the hotel will likely fill up quickly. There are also a number of other hotel options nearby.</p>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">For more information on the workshop, including the program and steering committee, please visit the WISH website:<a href="https://wish2011.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://wish2011.wordpress.com</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span></p>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">We hope to see you at WISH!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Madhu Reddy (Penn State), Co-Chair</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Lena Mamykina (Columbia University), Co-Chair </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Andrea Grimes Parker (Georgia Institute of Technology), Co-Organizer</span></p>
</span><div><br></div>-- <br>Andrea Grimes Parker, Ph.D.<br>Postdoctoral Fellow<br>Institute for People & Technology || Georgia Institute of Technology<br><a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~agrimes" target="_blank">www.cc.gatech.edu/~agrimes</a><br>