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HIS'15 CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4th International Conference on
Health Information Science (HIS2015)
28 - 30th May 2015, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.his-conferences.org/2015/
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The 4th International Conference on Health Information Science provides
a forum for disseminating and exchanging multidisciplinary research results
in computer science/information technology and health science & services.
HIS 2015 aims to integrate computer science/information technology with
health sciences & services, embracing information science research coupled
with topics related to the modelling, design, development, integration, and
management of health information systems and health services. It covers all
aspects of the health information sciences and the systems that support this
health information management and health service delivery.

The scope includes:
1. Medical/health/biomedicine information resources, such as patient medical
records, devices and equipment, software and tools to capture, store,
retrieve, process, analyse, optimize the use of information in the health
domain;
2. Data management, data mining, and knowledge discovery (in health domain),
all of which play a key role in decision making, management of public
health, examination of standards, privacy and security issues;
3. Development of new architectures and applications for health information
systems.

Topics include, but not limited to:
- Information systems including electronic health records, hospital
information systems, data exchange and integration
- Health service delivery, workflow
- Data mining, knowledge discovery, decision making support
- System interoperability, ontology and standardization
- Bioinformatics
- Biomedical informatics, Brain informatics, Imaging informatics
- Telemedicine, Health data management
- Health database and information-system integration
- Health information extraction, Health information services
- Health information-system modeling, design, and development
- Health information visualization
- Support tools and languages for health information-system development
- Information system interface
- Data integration, Data processing
- Data federation, sharing, and mining
- E-health care delivery
- Distributed computing, Pervasive computing in content of e-health
- Information storage and retrieval in e-health
- Innovative applications in e-health
- Integration of heterogeneous information sources
- Agent systems with e-health

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission*: January 19, 2015
Acceptance notification: February 9, 2015
Camera-ready copy: March 1, 2015

(*research papers, industry papers and demo proposals)

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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The HIS2015 Proceedings will be published by Springer. Papers should
be submitted in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (style
files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PDF files, and may
not exceed 12 pages for regular paper, industry papers up to 6 pages.

HIS 2015 is using the EasyChair conference management system. The
submission website is at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=his2015.

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SPECIAL ISSUES
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Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit extended
versions to journals:
- Health Information Science and Systems
- Transactions on Scalable Information Systems
- World Wide Web

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DUPLICATE SUBMISSIONS AND NOVELTY REQUIREMENTS
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A research paper submitted to HIS 2015 cannot be under review for any
other publishing forum or presentation venue; including conferences,
workshops, and journals, during the time it is being considered for
HIS 2015 conference. Furthermore, after you submit a research paper
to HIS 2015, you must await the response from HIS 2015 and only
resubmit elsewhere if your paper is rejected--or withdrawn at your
request--from HIS 2015. This restriction applies to identical papers
as well as to papers with a substantial overlap in scientific content
and results.

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REVIEWING PROCESS
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Every research paper submitted to HIS 2015 will undergo a peer
reviewing process. All accepted papers will be incorporated into
the conference program and included in the conference proceedings
published by Springer LNCS.

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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General Co-Chairs
* Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
* Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia

Program Co-Chairs
* Xiaoxia Yin, Victoria University, Australia
* Kendall Ho, The University of British Columbia , Canada
* Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona and Chinese Academy of Sciences
* Uwe Aichelin, University of Notingham, UK

Industry Program Co-Chairs
* Jeffrey Soar, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Lei Liu, Fudan University, China

Conference Organisation Chair:
* Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia

Publicity Chair:
* Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Publication Chair:
* Rui Zhou, Victoria University, Australia

Financial Chair:
* Irena Dzuteska, Victoria University, Australia

Webmaster:
* Zhangwei Jiang, Victoria University, Australia