PROGRAM
Themes
Authors are encouraged to submit under the following streams. The bullet points under each stream provides context of the type of content in those areas.
Tracks (see topics per track below)
- Patient Engagement
- Connected and Digital Health
- Health Data Science
- Human, Organizational and Social Aspects
- Medical and Healthcare Knowledge Management
- Quality and Safety, and Patient Outcomes
- Continuum of Care in Chronic Diseases and Aging Population through Informatics
- Telehealth and Smart Health for the Ageing Population
- Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Clinical Practice
- Application of Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Research Data and Innovations
- Public-Private Partnerships towards UHC and the SDGs
- HL7 FHIR
[1] PATIENT ENGAGEMENT
- Personal health record
- PHR and patient engagement
- Patient reported outcome
- Patient experience
- Patient empowerment and experiences
- Public trust and citizen engagement
- Healthcare education and training
- Design and development of patient-centered processes and systems
- Patients’ access to their own electronic health records
- Social Media and Online Patient Communities
- Remote Patient Monitoring and Telemedicine
- Wearables and Mobile Devices with Internet of Things (IoT)
- Patient-Generated Health Data (PGHD)
- Health Literacy, Health Information Technology (HIT) Literacy
- Alert systems
[2] CONNECTED AND DIGITAL HEALTH
- Aged care systems and solutions for people with special needs
- Design, implementation and evaluation of telehealth solutions
- eHealth tools and services
- mHealth apps, IoT, wearable sensors and self-monitoring devices
- Modelling and simulation of human physiology/anatomy/pathology
- Participatory medicine
- Patient portals and personal health records
- Quantified self
- Robotics and virtual reality systems
- Smart homes & cities and the Internet of Things
- Web 2.0, social media and social networks
- Ubiquitous and pervasive computing
[3] HEALTH DATA SCIENCE
- Big data platforms and methods
- Biosurveillance and population health monitoring
- Cybersecurity
- Data integration
- Data and text mining, machine learning and predictive modelling
- Data visualization
- Electronic phenotyping
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Exposome and environmental exposure data collection and analysis
- Health geographical information systems
- High-performance and large-scale computing
- Biomedical image and signal processing
- Information processing in clinical research and trials
- Information retrieval
- Interoperability and standards
- Learning healthcare systems
- Molecular sequence processing
- Natural language and speech processing
- Personalized and precision medicine
- Standards for exchanging health information
[4] HUMAN, ORGANIZATIONAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS
- Barriers to clinical system implementation
- Cognitive models and problem solving
- Education and training of health professionals and specialists
- e-learning environments and MOOCs
- Informatics policies and ethical issues
- Innovative Information Governance
- Management of large-scale health IT projects
- Open data and open source systems
- Privacy, confidentiality and security
- Sustainability of health and care
- Workflows and socio-organizational impact
- User-centric design, usability engineering and human-computer interaction
[5] MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
- Controlled terminologies and vocabularies
- Health information portals and digital libraries
- Knowledge acquisition and processing
- Ontologies, knowledge bases, data models and metadata
- Semantic interoperability and semantic web methods
- Expert systems and knowledge based decision support
[6] QUALITY AND SAFETY, AND PATIENT OUTCOMES
- Chronic disease prevention and management, and continuity of care
- Clinical decision support
- Connected care
- Cost-effective healthcare
- Digital health literacy
- Electronic health records
- Electronic prescription and computerized provider order entry (CPOE)
- Empirical research and evaluation studies
- Guidelines and protocols
- Hospital and clinical information systems
- Integrated Care