Healthcare informatics focuses on the efficient and
effective acquisition, management, and use of information in healthcare.
Advancing health informatics has been declared a Grand Challenge by the
National Academy of Engineering and is a major area of emphasis for agencies
such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. As such, it has been
identified as an area of national need. Sample uses of AI in health informatics
includes expert systems for decision support, machine learning and data mining
to discover patterns across patients, image analysis to assist in diagnosis,
and natural language processing to extract information from free text medical
documents.
A strength of FLAIRS is the diversity of areas represented by attendees. The
goal of this track is to broaden participation by encouraging researchers in
healthcare to submit and attend.
The track should be of interest to both computer scientists as well as
researchers and providers in medicine.
Papers and contributions are encouraged for any work relating to AI in Healthcare
Informatics. Topics of interest may include (but are in no way limited
to)
Machine learning and data mining in healthcare
NLP applications in healthcare
Intelligent healthcare decision support
Medical image processing
Processing and managing patient records
Syndromic surveillance
Drug discovery
Personalization of clinical care
Note: We invite original papers (i.e. work not previously submitted, in
submission, or to be submitted to another conference during the reviewing
process).
SubmissionGuidelines
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting
guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in
submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should
not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 20, 2017. For
FLAIRS-31, the 2018 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Fake
author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers to provide double-blind
reviewing. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference
system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-31.info/). Note: do not use a fake name for your
EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers.
Authors should indicate the AI in Health Informatics special track for
submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. Authors
of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of
their contribution to AAAI. FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full
author registration per paper.
