[AISWorld] Deadline approaching July 20th: Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA) 2018

[Ritu Agarwal]

Dear colleague,

This is a reminder that there are only a few days left to submit your paper
abstract for presentation at the 9th Annual Conference on Health IT and
Analytics (CHITA), Friday, July 20th is the submission deadline. Also,
please note that CHITA 2018 Doctoral Consortium applications and letters of
recommendation are coming due Friday, July 27th, 2018.

CHITA is an annual research summit and doctoral consortium that gathers
prominent scholars in a multi-disciplinary setting. CHITA focuses on the
increasing role, importance and impact of analytics and health information
technology in improving individual and population health, and health system
quality and performance. CHITA will be held in Washington DC, center of
health policy debates, on Friday and Saturday, October 19th - 20th,
2018. The conference will include full presentations, research round
tables, and research panels (which feature several brief presentations). As
in the past, CHITA will give awards for Best Paper, Best student-authored
Paper, and Young Researcher.

The CHITA Doctoral Consortium will be held on Thursday, October 18th, 2018,
from 1 pm to 6 pm, with a dinner following, in Washington, DC. The
invitation only Doctoral Consortium will provide an opportunity for
doctoral students to receive feedback on their research from senior
researchers, network and discuss career issues. All interested PhD students
and recent post-docs working on research in the areas of health information
systems, health economics, health informatics, clinical fields and health
policy are invited to apply, as we are seeking multi-disciplinary
conversations. Travel support is available.

More conference details including the full Call for Submissions and
Doctoral Consortium Call instructions are posted at: go.umd.edu/chita2018
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CHITA
is hosted by the Center for Health Information & Decision Systems (CHIDS)
with support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Robert H.
Smith School of Business and the University of Michigan School of Public
Health. Have questions? Send us an email atchita at rhsmith.umd.edu.

We hope to see you at CHITA 2018!

Best wishes,

CHITA Conference Chairs

Ritu Agarwal
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Professor, Robert H. Smith
School of Business, University of Maryland

Guodong (Gordon) Gao
Associate Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of
Maryland

Jeffrey McCullough
Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health


*Note: CHITA does not assume copyright over work accepted for presentation.
Conference abstract Proceedings will be indexed, with authors able to
optionally participate or not.

Why attend?
Hear from experts in machine learning, AI and blockchain for health care
and other emerging health care innovation areas, including Keynote
Speakers: Avi Goldfarb, Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and
Healthcare and coauthor of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of
Artificial Intelligence; Brian Jacobs, Vice President, Chief Medical
Information Officer and Chief Information Officer at Children's National;
and Ginger Jin, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, Chief Data
Scientist, Hazel Analytics
Learn the latest findings and practices connected to information technology
and data science to make health care more patient-centered, effective and
cost-efficient.
Network with researchers, clinical executives and policymakers that are
leading health care transformation.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports CHITA 2018.
Presented by:



-- 
Ritu Agarwal
Senior Associate Dean
Distinguished University Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems
Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems
Robert H. Smith School of Business
2416F  Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-1815
301.405.3121 TEL; 301.314.9120 FAX
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids
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