CALL FOR PAPERS
12th Australasian Conference on
Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM)
Sydney, Macquarie University, 29 – 31 January 2019
http://www.hikm.net.au
Held in conjunction with the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) is the premier event for
Computer Science researchers across Australasia that comprise several conferences covering a wide
range Computer Science topics. ACSW is attended by many national and international delegates
comprising academics, industry representatives and HDR students.
HIKM has been a leading forum for academic research in the area of computing in support of healthcare in
the Pacific Australasian region for over a decade. Submission of papers presenting original unpublished
work is now open. Accepted papers will be published with ACM Press. Papers should address current
research topics in the field of computational intelligence, big data analytics, safety and security in health
IT, information and knowledge management applied to healthcare. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Data science and analytics for healthcare:
•big data analytics, health analytics, knowledge
discovery, data mining and visualization
•health information management
•health workflow management
• interoperability protocols, terminologies, and
ontologies
• standards for healthcare computing and health data
• collections and registries, data linkage and integration
•modelling spatial biological data
•privacy / security issues on healthcare
•public and population large and big dataset predictive
analytics and surveillance
Use and integration of computing in healthcare:
• biomedical devices and systems
• biotechnology and bioinformatics
• clinical and healthcare decision support systems
• conceptual models and architectures
health information systems
• consumer information systems
• design and implementation for new models of care
• use and quality of health data
• electronic health records and systems
• health informatics education
• mobile platforms and BYOD in healthcare
• online and web interventions in healthcare
• telemedicine and remote healthcare services