Special track
HPORT-BD: Health Portals and Big Data Visualization
Chair and Coordinator
Assistant Professor Athina Lazakidou, Digital Health Applications & Health
Economics Analytics Laboratory,
Dept. of Economics, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece
lazakid@uop.gr
along with
HEALTHINFO 2017, October 8 - 12, 2017 - Athens, Greece
The Second International Conference on Informatics and Assistive Technologies
for Health-Care, Medical
Support and Wellbeing
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/HEALTHINFO17.html
Data has always been key to measure the quality of care, analyze health trends,
predict epidemics and
improve treatments. But today, we can do this faster and better than ever before.
Health Portals and
Visualization Tools can help healthcare organizations leverage analytics to
improve their processes and the
outcomes of care. Analyzing Big Data holds tremendous promises for improving
healthcare.
There is a huge amount of existing data distributed in several repositories and
new data generated daily by
billions of connected devices or self generated by people. It is necessary to
find more appropriate and effective
ways to leverage these data in line with privacy and ethical principles, to
access them, to understand the
purposes for their adoption and their quality in order to improve and optimize
care processes, diseases
diagnosis, personalized care and in general the healthcare system.
Patients and healthcare professionals are profiting from big data. There is a
need to develop approaches that
allow for humans and machines to cooperate more closely on exploiting big data
for a better health. This
includes guarantees on the trustworthiness of information, a focus on generating
actionable advice, and
improving the interactivity and understandability of big data processing and
analytics. The requirements of
different target groups - researchers, doctors and care-givers, or patients and
general population – may require
different focus.
When healthcare organizations envision the future of big data, they often think
of using it for analyzing textbased
notes. Current analytics technologies for the most part make use of discrete
data and struggle to capitalize
on all of the valuable clinical information captured in physicians’ and nurses’
notes. Big data indexing
techniques, and some of the new work finding information in textual fields,
could indeed add real value to
healthcare analytics in the future. With the overlay of advanced big data
analytics, healthcare providers and
executives can make great leaps ahead in terms of improving patient outcomes,
while lowering the costs of
doing so.
Submissions are encouraged from all areas of practice relevant to HEALTHINFO
2017.
Topics include, but not limited to:
Digital Health Applications
Big Data Technologies in Healthcare
Health Portals
Health Data Visualization and Reporting
Health Economics Analytics
Geographic Information Systems in Healthcare
Important Datelines
Inform the Chair: As soon as you decided to contribute
Submission: August 31
Notification: September 7
Registration: September 14
Camera ready: September 14
Note: These deadlines are somewhat flexible, providing arrangements are made
ahead of time with the chair.
Contribution Types
Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
Paper Format
See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
Publications
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
Paper Submission
https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=HEALTHINFO+2017+Special
Please select Track Preference as HPORT-BD
Registration
Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the
camera-ready manuscript can be included in
the proceedings.
Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html
Contacts
Athina Lazakidou, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece lazakid@uop.gr
HEALTHINFO logistics: steve@iaria.org
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