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IDAMAP 2011: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN BIOMEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY

Special Topic Workshop

Intelligent Data Analysis for Quality and Safety in Healthcare

July 6th, 2011
A workshop in Association with AIME 2011, Lake Bled, Slovenia
Niels Peek, John Holmes, Allan Tucker and Riccardo Bellazzi

http://idamap.org/idamap2011

Organized in collaboration with Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining Workgroup of International Medical Informatics Association, and Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining SIG of American Medical Informatics Association

Contributions are sollicited regarding theory and application of data analysis methods for improvement of quality and patient safety in healthcare, building on methods and insights from the fields of machine learning, data mining, statistics, and artifical intelligence. Contributions to theory should present or analyse of the properties of novel data analysis methods. Papers on techniques and methodologies should describe the development or the extension of existing methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods and their novelty with respect to the state of the art. Papers addressing applications or systems should describe the implementation of new methods, and discuss their specific suitability and effectiveness for improvement of healthcare quality and patient safety. In particular, empirical studies are sought that have evaluated the impact of such data analysis methods on care.

TOPIC

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • data analysis methods for adverse event detection
  • prognostic models for case-mix adjustment in quality measurement
  • data analysis methods for feedback and audit of care quality
  • pharmacovigilance methods and systems
  • outcomes-based benchmarking and institutional/provider comparison
  • statistical process control methods
  • measurement and analysis of guideline compliance
  • data analysis for clinical decision support
  • strategies for risk measurement and adverse event prevention

    SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED PAPERS

    We invite submissions of either short papers (up to 5 pages, leading to a short presentation at the meeting) or full papers (up to 10 pages, leading to a long presentation at the meeting). Papers should be written in English. Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (see www.springeronline.com/lncs or www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

    Authors should send an electronic submission in PDF to Niels Peek ([email protected]). Please use "IDAMAP SUBMISSION YOUR_NAME" as a subject, where YOUR_NAME is the surname of the first author. Submissions should be received no later than April 14, 2011.

    Submissions will be reviewed by at least two people of the programme committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by May 8, 2011. Accepted papers will appear in colloquium notes that will only be distributed among registered participants. A selection of revised and expanded papers from the workshop will appear in an international, peer-reviewed scientific journal.