[Ieee_vis] CFP: Visualization of EHR data (workshop) - Paris, November 2014

[Silvia Miksch]

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         Visualizing Electronic Health Record Data (Workshop)
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A workshop of the IEEE VIS 2014 Conference (Paris, 9-14 November 2014)

Catherine Plaisant, Silvia Miksch, Theresia Gschwandtner, Sana Malik

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/parisehrvis

Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases contain millions of patient
records including events such as diagnoses, test results, or medication
prescriptions. These records are an invaluable data source for clinical
research and improvement of clinical quality, as they provide 
longitudinal health information about patient populations. The use of 
EHR databases could be dramatically improved if easy-to-use interfaces 
allowed clinical researchers and quality improvement analysts to explore 
complex patterns in order to build and test hypotheses regarding the 
benefits, risks, and appropriateness of treatments or medication regimens.

Novel strategies in information visualization and visual analytics are
needed.  The interest in this topic is growing at very rapid pace and is
very interdisciplinary by nature, both in term of field (medicine and
computer science) but also research environment (academic research as 
well as industry and government agencies). Because of the European 
location of the conference, we have a unique opportunity to create 
bridges and explore new collaborations between groups that would have 
never met otherwise.

Dates:
      Deadline:     JULY 25th 2014 (submit short paper to present)
      Notification: AUGUST 8th 2014
      Workshop:     NOVEMBER 9 or 10 (to be finalized by VIS committee)

To participate: the workshop is open to all VIS 2014 attendees

See http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/parisehrvis for more details