[BiO BB] Call for Participation: 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI)

[hanbing at ittc.ku.edu]

Call for Participation
IHI 2010
1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium
Arlington, VA
November 11-12, 2010
http://ihi2010.sighi.org

IHI 2010 is the inaugural symposium on health informatics promoted by the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). IHI is designed to run as an
annual showcase for exciting and innovative research on techniques and
technologies developed in universities, hospitals, research labs, and
companies all over the world.

IHI 2010 will feature about 120 contributions from more than 30 countries,
including regular 10-page papers, short 5-page papers, and demonstrations.
Selected regular papers will be presented in oral plenary sessions. Other
papers and demos will be presented by the authors in an open setting,
specifically designed to encourage conversation and discussion. The
symposium will cover the breadth of problems faced by the community:
health informatics education, telemedicine, systems for decision support,
human-centered design, information retrieval techniques for health
applications, accessibility to personalized predictive modeling
techniques, and so on. A highlight of the conference is that we will give
awards for the best regular paper and the best short paper.

IHI 2010 reflects a collective community effort including reviewers as
well as corporate sponsors, who gave generously of their time and who
provided funds to specific areas of the symposium. The following companies
and institutions generously provided financial support: Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, IBM, Indiana University, Google, Hidola, and Siemens.

Arlington, VA is in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The conference
hotel, Hilton Crystal City, is conveniently located near the Washington
Red Line Metro and the Reagan National Airport. Within a few subway stops
it is possible to reach many of the Washington area museums, monuments,
and other attractions.

Online registration is now available at the conference website
(http://ihi2010.sighi.org). We also encourage you to stay at the
conference hotel at the pre-negotiated conference rates. A direct link to
the Hilton hotel reservation system is conveniently available at the
conference website.

The conference co-organizers are looking forward to your visit!