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Final Workshop Programme

Overview

The business of Health Delivery is a complex one. Employing over 850,000 people, and delivering services to 21.3 million residents, the Australian health care system is currently strained to the maximum in dealing with increasing demand for services, and an acute shortage of skilled professionals. The National e-Health Strategy drives a nationwide research agenda to provide the infrastructure and tools required to support the planning, management and delivery of health care services.

Deriving principles from the disciplines of computer science, mathematics, philosophy and physiology, and consisting of different fields, from machine vision to expert systems, the field of Artificial Intelligence deals with the creation of "machines that can think". Focused on traits of reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, learning, communication, perception and social intelligence, Artificial Intelligence has been widely applied to augment the state of the art in Health Informatics.

The AIH 2011 workshop is a first of its kind National initiative to bring together scholars and practitioners in the field of Artificial Intelligence driven Health Informatics to present and discuss their research, share their knowledge and experiences, define key research challenges and explore possible collaborations to advance e-Health development nationally and internationally.

Supported by the CSIRO AEHRC & Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University.

Topics

Participants are invited to submit full papers and posters on all research and application aspects of Artificial Intelligence driven Health Informatics, including, but not limited to:

• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Clinical decision support systems
• Collaborative care and communication
• Tele-health and telemonitoring
• Medical data mining
• Modelling and simulation
• Forecasting, planning, and scheduling
• Patient care, monitoring and diagnosis
• Natural language processing
• Intelligent health records
• Workflow and capacity optimization
• Implementation and case studies

Submissions

Submissions are invited in two categories: Full Papers (up to 10 pages in length) and 2-page Abstracts for Posters. Accepted full papers will be presented as oral presentations. Poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present a 3 minute pitch about their posters before the poster session. An extended lunch break will be used to facilitate poster display and ensuing discussion and interaction. Unsuccessful full papers submissions may also be invited to resubmit as 2-page Abstracts and accompanying posters.

All submissions will be assigned to a Senior Program Committee member and reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. The main aspects to be reviewed will be originality, technical accuracy and relevance to the workshop. Submission of a paper will be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.

All accepted full papers and abstracts will be invited to revise and reformat their papers for publication in the Australasian Medical Journal (www.amj.net.au). The journal is indexed on the following databases: DOAJ, EBSCO, Genamics journalseek, ProQuest, Index Copernicus, Open J-Gate, Intute, Global health and CAB Abstracts databases, MedWorm, Scopus, Socolar.

Papers and Abstracts must be submitted by the due date, in PDF format only, through the AIH 2011's EasyChair site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aih2011).

Key Dates

• Submission of papers: October 23, 2011
• Acceptance notification: November 4, 2011
• Camera ready paper deadline: November 18, 2011

Committee

Program Chairs

• Abdul Sattar (Griffith University)
• David Hansen (AEHRC)

Workshop Chair

• Sankalp Khanna (AEHRC)

Senior Programme Committee

• Aditya Ghose (University of Newcastle)
• Anthony Maeder (University of Western Sydney)
• Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales)
• Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University)
• Dr Yogesan (Yogi) Kanagasingam (AEHRC)

Programme Committee

• Simon McBride (AEHRC)
• Adam Dunn (University of New South Wales)
• Stephen Anthony (University of New South Wales)
• Lawrence Cavedon (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology / NICTA)
• Diego Mollá Aliod (Macquarie University)
• Michael Lawley (AEHRC)
• Anthony Nguyen (AEHRC)
• Amol Wagholikar (AEHRC)
• Bevan Koopman (AEHRC)
• Kewen Wang (Griffith University)
• Vladimir Estivill-Castro (Griffith University)
• John Thornton (Griffith University)
• Bela Stantic (Griffith University)
• Byeong-Ho Kang (University of Tasmania)