<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greetings,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My name is Chethan Jujjavarapu. I am contacting you on behalf of the Visual Analytics in Healthcare Committee (<a href="http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org/" class="">http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org/</a>). You may have received an email previously, but we are including more information in this one, specifically about the design challenge (see attachment) and deadline. We will be hosting a healthcare data visualization workshop this year at AMIA in November and are officially announcing a Call for Papers (see link below). Submissions include papers, posters, demonstrations, and a design challenge. Currently, submissions are due <b class="">August 1st</b>, but this may be extended, we will inform you soon. In addition, w<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">e have entered into an agreement with Prof. Chris Lehmann, Editor-in-Chief of </span><em class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Applied Clinical Informatics</em><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (ACI), to publish some or all of the presented papers (6 anticipated) and design challenge winners (3 anticipated) as part of a </span><strong class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Topic in Visual Analytics</strong><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. We believe this will be an opportunity for great visibility of your work. We look forward to your submissions!</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://easychair.org/cfp/VAHC_2018" class="">https://easychair.org/cfp/VAHC_2018</a></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chethan Jujjavarapu</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PhD Student at University of Washington: Biomedical and Health Informatics</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></div></body></html>