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CFP: International Workshop on Data Mining for Healthcare (September 11 2013)
Held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2013)
September 09-11, 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA

https://sites.google.com/site/dmh2013ichi/

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Important Dates
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Papers due: May 15th, 2013
Notifications: June 20th, 2013
Camera ready due: July 16, 2013

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Submission
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Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmh2013).

Papers must be in IEEE Proceedings format. Information about the formatting can be found at ICHI 2013 website, and the page limit is no more than 6 pages. The paper must clearly present author information including name, affiliation and email. Each paper will receive at least two reviews to determine acceptance.

The workshop papers **will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE**.

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Workshop Scope
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The workshop encourages the following topics (but is not limited to) related to application of data mining techniques to healthcare:

- Theoretical foundations in data mining
- Data models for healthcare management
- Patient management
- Medical decision making
- Medical diagnosis
- Evidence based medicinal decisions
- Medical insurance fraud detection
- Patient flow models in hospitals
- Clinical data analysis
- Privacy and security in healthcare.
- Improving data quality
- Text mining and natural language processing
- Improving the usability of electronic health records
- Improving quality of products and services
- Data collection and integration techniques
- Data cleaning and transformation
- Knowledge based medical recommendation models
- Information visualization of medical data.
- Enhancing quality of tools available to healthcare providers and consumers.
- Pattern recognition in medical images and data.

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Program Committee
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Yuan An, Drexel University
Si-Chi Chin, University of Washington
Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas, Austin.
Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University
Tae Hyun Hwang, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Harleen Kaur, United Nations University, Malaysia
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Robert Leaman, National Institutes of Health
Jiao Li, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Zhiyong Lu, National Institutes of Health
Yuqing Mao, National Institutes of Health
Aurelie Neveol, French National Centre for Scientific Research
Donald Pellegrino, Dow Chemical
Saurav Sahay, Intel Labs
Gyorgy Simon, University of Minnesota
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota
Ankur Teredesai, University of Washington
Tamara Winden, Allina Health
Xiaodan Zhang, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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Workshop Organization Chairs
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Prasanna Desikan
Sr. Research Scientist
Division of Applied Research
Allina Health

Ritu Khare
Research Fellow
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Institute of Health

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