International Workshop on Innovation in Health Informatics (IWIHI’11)
July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA
 
The First International Workshop on Innovation in Health Informatics (IWIHI’11) 
will be organized as part of the 2011 International Conference on Bioinformatics 
and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP’11), July 18-21, 2011.  It will examine the 
innovation in acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using information in health 
care and biomedical environments.  The goal of the workshop is to bring together 
researchers from the fields of health care, computing, and engineering to 
enhance the multidisciplinary nature of Health Informatics.
 
Topics of Interest 
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
•Semantic Health Applications
•Privacy, Confidentiality, Security, and Ethics in Health Informatics
•Quality and Integrity of Health Data
•Evidence-Based Care
•Consumer Health Informatics and Technologies
•e-Healthcare Infrastructure 
•International Health Information System Frameworks
•Chronic Disease Management
•Predictive Modeling for Clinical Management
•Clinical Decision Support Systems
•User-Interface Design for Medical Devices and Systems
•Health Informatics Education
•Models and Architectures for Health Information Systems
•Health Knowledge Representation
•Standards in Health Data and Clinical Applications
•Medical Image Processing
•Ontology Applications
•Nursing Informatics
•E-learning 
•Evaluation of Health Information System
•E-visit Systems
•Health IT Project Management
•Health System Simulation
•High-Performance Computing in Healthcare
•e-Pharmacy
•Electronic Health Records/ Personal Health Records
•Data Mining
•Public and Community-based Health Informatics
•Medical Signal Processing  (either remove Image processing or combine)
•Assisted Ambient Living
 
Submission Guidelines
 
•Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the 
evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org.  Submissions must be uploaded by 
March 10, 2011 and they must be in pdf format (about 5 to 7 pages - single 
space, font size of 10 to 12). 

•Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for 
publication elsewhere
•The first page of the draft paper should include:
      -The Workshop name: “International Workshop on Innovation in Health 
Informatics (IWIHI’11) / Kevin Daimi”
      -The title of the paper
      -Name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and 
fax number for each author
      -The name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and 
a maximum of 5 keywords.
•Authors of accepted papers would later be instructed to submit their 
Camera-Ready papers in PDF format.  The maximum number of pages in the final 
papers is 7.  Papers must conform to IEEE style guidelines at
www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/journmag/transactions/TRANS-JOUR.doc 
 
      
Conference Proceedings
 
Accepted papers will appear in the BIOCOMP’11 Conference Proceedings – The 
proceedings will be indexed by major databases (including: Inspec / IET / The 
Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography). 
The proceedings (with ISBN in printed copy) will be available for distribution 
at the conference as well as it will be made available online (after the 
conference) for the world-wide access.
 
Almost all tracks of WorldComp annual conferences are now listed as "Top 
Conferences in Computer Science" by Microsoft Academic Search (based on the 
number of citations to papers).  These include PDPTA, ICAI/IC-AI, IPCV/CISST, 
GEM, SAM, BIOCOMP, CDES, ICOMP/IC, SWWS, ICWN, CSC, DMIN, ERSA, ESA, FECS, FCS, 
and others.
 
Important Dates
 
Submission deadline:          March 10, 2011
Notification of Acceptance:   April   03, 2011
Final papers Due:       April   24, 2011
 
 
Workshop Chair
 
Prof. Kevin Daimi
 
Members of the Advisory Committee
 
•Elske Ammenwerth Ph.D., Professor, Institute for Health Information Systems, 
UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, 
Austria.
•Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Coordinator & General Co-Chair, WORLDCOMP 2011, 
Professor, Computer Science, Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing 
(Springer), Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier), 
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing, The University 
of Georgia, Georgia, USA.
•Ananda S. Chowdhury Ph.D., Reader, Department of Electronics & 
Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
•Kevin Daimi Ph.D., Fellow of the British Computer Society, Senior Member of ACM 
and IEEE, Professor and Director of Computer Science Programs, University of 
Detroit Mercy, USA.
•Lis Herbert, Business Analyst – Clinical, Electronic Medical Record (eMR) 
Project, Australia.
•Michelle LL Honey RN, PhD, FCNA (NZ), Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, the 
University of Auckland, New Zealand.
•Christine M. Pacini, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, College of Health Professions 
and McAuley School of Nursing, University of Detroit Mercy, USA.
•Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar, Professor, President of the Romanian Society of 
Medical Informatics, University ”Politehnica” Timisoara, Faculty of Automation 
and Computers, Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Healthcare 
Information Systems Group, Romania.
 
 
Members of the Program Committee
 
 
•Yuan An, Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, 
Drexel University, USA.
•Brian D. Athey, Professor, Biomedical Informatics and of Psychiatry Chair 
Designate, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics Associate Director, 
Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research Director, Academic 
Informatics University of Michigan Medical School, USA.
•Zhaohui (John) Cai, Biomedical Informatics Director, AstraZeneca, Clinical 
Development, USA.
•Liangyou Chen, Ph.D., Research Scientist [Contractor, Foreign National], 
Bioinformatics Cell, TATRC, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, 
USA.
•Alec Holt, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Health Informatics Program, 
University of Otago, New Zealand.
•Faiz M Ishaq, Ph.D., Head, SZABIST, Dubai Campus, Dubai.
•Ashish Joshi M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor, Center for Global Health and 
Development Health Services Research & Administration, College of Public Health, 
USA.
•Christian Lovis, MD MPH, Professor, Division of Medical Information Sciences, 
University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland.
•Henning Müller, Ph.D., Professor, Business information systems, University of 
Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland.
•Soojin Park, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Director of Neurocritical 
Care Monitoring and Informatics, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 
USA.
•Michelle Rogers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and 
Technology, Drexel University, USA.
•Julia Stocker Schneider, PhD, RN, Associate Professor & Coordinator, Health 
Systems Management Program, McAuley School of Nursing, University of Detroit 
Mercy, USA.
•Chunqiang Tang, Research Staff Member, IBM. T.J. Watson Research Center, USA.
•Kiran Turaga, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, 
USA.
•Lu Wang, MD., MS., Research Fellow in Medical Informatics, Harvard-MIT, USA.
 
 
Workshop Website
 
www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/biocomp11/Workshops%20-%20Sessions