[Ieee_vis] CFP: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2016)

[Visual Analytics Healthcare]

                                                       CALL FOR
PAPERS, POSTERS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS:


                                                         Workshop on
Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2016)

                                                          (In
conjunction with AMIA 2016, Nov. 12th, Chicago, IL)



Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org


                                                           *** Paper
Submissions due August 31st, 2016 ***



Call for Papers:
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The 2016 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2016) is the
seventh annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants
to discuss state-of-the-art data visualization techniques and review
how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. The primary
objective of the annual workshop is to bring together medical experts,
leading scientists, and visionaries to discuss visualization
techniques that can be applied to healthcare data and discuss the
areas of healthcare that need more attention from the visualization
and visual data mining communities. The workshop will allow
participants to showcase their ongoing work on visual analytics of
healthcare-related data through podium, posters, or demo presentations
as well as to learn more about emerging techniques, software
applications, and datasets.

This year the VAHC 2016 workshop is co-located with the American
Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium in Chicago, Illinois.



Topics and Scope:
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We will welcome discussions of the use of visual approaches,
interaction design, statistical methods, and machine learning for
healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of a
variety of users, including clinical researchers, epidemiologists,
public health analysts, pharmaco-vigilance experts, physicians,
hospital-based quality assurance officers, insurance claim analysts,
and patients.

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

  * Visualization of Public Health Data
  * Visualization of patient-generated health data
  * Design of dashboards for Public Health Surveillance programs
  * Visual analysis and exploration of longitudinal clinical data
  * Visual data mining and analysis of Electronic Health Records (EHR)
  * Visualization of prescriptions drugs and interactions
  * Improving operating room (OR) workflow with Visual Analytics
  * Outcome forecasting or prediction
  * Visual Analytics for patient safety
  * Pandemic forecasting and tracking
  * Visual Analytics in surgery
  * Visual Analytics in radiology
  * Visual Analytics in the emergency room (ER) and OR
  * Improving patient understanding and/or physician-patient
communication with Visual Analytics



Paper Submission and Format Guidelines:
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We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from
academic, healthcare organizations, and industry that addresses any of
the topics listed above.  Submissions can be for (1) paper / podium
presentations,  (2) poster presentations, or (3) live & interactive
demonstrations.

  - Paper: Papers are limited to eight pages.
  - Poster: Poster abstract submissions are limited to two pages.
  - Demo: Demonstration abstract submissions are limited to two pages.

Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions.



Important Dates:
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Deadline for submission:        August 31st, 2016

Notification of acceptance:     Sept 15th, 2016

Camera-ready papers due:    Sept 30th, 2016

VAHC 2016 workshop:           November 12th, 2016



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Organizers:
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Jesus J Caban, PhD  -- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Bhanu Bahl, PhD -- Harvard Medical School
Jacquelyn W. Blaz, PhD, MS -- UW-Madison School of Nursing
Sary Beidas, MD -- Orange Park Medical Center
Carolyn Petersen, MBI, MS -- Mayo Clinic
Danny Wu, PhD, MSI -- University of Cincinnati
Adam Perer, PhD -- IBM Research
Jeremy Warner, MD -- Vanderbilt University
Uba Backonja, PhD RN -- University of Washington School of Medicine
Shira Fischer, MD, PhD -- RAND Corporation