[AK-MI] ProHealth 2009: CfP - Deadline extension

[Elske Ammenwerth]

Liebe KollegInnen,

ich darf Sie informieren, dass die Deadline für die ProHealth'09
Konferenz in Ulm wurde verlängert (Details: siehe unten).
Falls Sie also noch einen Beitrag zum Thema "Prozessunterstützung im
Gesundheitswesen" einreichen wollen, ist noch bis 22. Mai 2009 Zeit. 

Ausgewählte Beiträge des Worksohps werden in einem Special Issue des
Journals of Software Process Improvement and Practice publiziert werden.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Elske Ammenwerth



> Call for Papers
>
> 3d International Workshop on
> Process-oriented information systems in healthcare
> (ProHealth '09)
>
> In conjunction with 7th Int'l Conf. on Business Process Management
(BPM
> 2009), Ulm, Germany
>
>
> Workshop URL: 
http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/events/prohealth09/
>
>  Workshop Goals:
>
> Healthcare organizations and providers are facing the challenge of
> delivering high quality services to their patients, at affordable
costs.
> High degree of specialization of medical disciplines, prolonged
medical care
> for the ageing population, increased costs for dealing with chronic
> diseases, and the need for personalized healthcare are prevalent
trends in
> this information-intensive domain. The emerging situation
necessitates a
> change in the way healthcare is delivered to the patients and
healthcare
> processes are managed.
>
> BPM technology provides a key to implement these changes. Though
> patient-centered process support becomes increasingly crucial in
healthcare,
> BPM technology has not yet been broadly used in healthcare
environments.
> This workshop shall elaborate both the potential and the limitations
of IT
> support for healthcare processes. It shall further provide a forum
wherein
> challenges, paradigms, and tools for optimized process support in
healthcare
> can be debated. We want to bring together researchers and
practitioners from
> dif-ferent communities (e.g., BPM, Information Systems, Medical
Informatics,
> E-Health) who share an interest in both healthcare processes and BPM
> technologies.
>
> The success of the first two ProHealth Workshops, which were held in
> conjunction with the 5th and 6th International Conferences on
Business
> Process Management (BPM'07 and BPM'08), demonstrated the potential of
such
> an interdisciplinary forum to improve the understanding of domain
specific
> requirements, methods and theories, tools and techniques, and the
gaps
> between IT support and healthcare processes that are yet to be
closed.
>
> Workshop Description:
> Enterprise-wide process-oriented information systems have been
demanded by
> healthcare institutions for over 20 years and terms like "continuity
of
> care" have even been discussed for over 50 years. Yet, healthcare
> organizations are currently using a plethora of specialized
non-standard
> information systems and continue to focus on development of systems
for
> specialized departments that frequently only focus on their
in-ternal
> processes. Many of the successful existing information systems focus
on
> non-process oriented systems, such as imaging, drug order-entry,
laboratory
> test result storage, storage of diagnoses and progress notes in
electronic
> medical records, alerts and reminders, and billing applications.
>
> Information systems and decision-support systems for managing patient
care
> processes, however, are still scarcely developed; most often only by
a small
> number of university-led teams. Such patient care management systems
are
> highly complex and pose many challenges: they require availability
of
> encoded data coming from different sources, flexibility in deviating
from
> the encoded process at the discretion of the physician user, and may
involve
> a team of clinical users that together take care of a patient in a
> coordinated way.
>
> The recent trend towards healthcare networks and inte-grated care
even
> increases the need to effec-tively supp
ort interdisciplinary
cooper-ation
> along with the patient treatment process. Recent studies discussing
the
> preven-tability of adverse events in medicine recommend the use of
> information technology, since insufficient communication and missing
> information turned out to be among the major factors contributing to
adverse
> events. Yet, there is still a discrepancy between the potential and
the
> actual usage of IT in healthcare.
>
> This workshop focuses on research projects which aim at closing this
gap.
> It shall ela-borate both the potential and the limitations of IT
support for
> healthcare processes, and discuss approaches existing in this
context.
>
> Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
>     * Process modelling in healthcare
>     * Process oriented system architectures in healthcare
>     * Workflow management in healthcare
>     * IT support for guideline implementation and decision support
>     * Managing flexibility and exceptions in healthcare processes
>     * Process optimization in healthcare organizations and
healthcare
> networks
>     * Process interoperability & standards in healthcare
>     * Process patterns in healthcare
>     * Lifecycle management for healthcare processes
>     * Visualization, monitoring and mining of healthcare processes
>     * Context-aware healthcare processes
>     * Ambient intelligence & smart processes in healthcare
>     * Process mining and learning
>     * Compliance of healthcare processes
>     * Facilitating knowledge-acquisition of healthcare processes
>     * Integrating healthcare processes with electronic medical
records
>
> Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance,
> originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should
clearly
> establish their research contribution and the relation to healthcare
> processes.
>
> The workshop will also provide opportunity for demo sessions, where
> presenters can showcase advanced prototypes based on their research.
>
> Format of the Workshop:
> The workshop will comprise accepted papers, tool presentations, and
a
> keynote. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed
by at
> least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers
will
> appear in the workshop proceedings published by Springer in the
Lecture
> Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. There will
be a
> single LNBIP volume dedicated to the proceedings of all BPM
workshops. As
> this volume will appear after the conference, there will be informal
> proceedings during the workshop. At least one author for each
accepted paper
> should register for the workshop and present the paper.
>
> Paper submission:
> Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in
any of
> the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted.
Three types
> of submissions are possible: (1) full papers (12 pages long)
reporting
> mature research results, (2) position papers reporting research that
may be
> in preliminary stage that has not yet been evaluated, and (3) tool
reports.
> Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages.
Papers
> must present original research contributions not concurrently
submitted
> elsewhere.
>
> Papers should be submitted in the LNBIP format (
> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0. The
title
> page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics
covered,
> preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the
> submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report).
>
> Papers (preferably in PDF format) should be submitted electronically
via
> e-mail to Mor Peleg (morpeleg at mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il).
>
> Important dates:
> Paper submission deadline: 22 May 2009 (extended!)
> Notification of acceptance: 2 June 2009
> Camera ready: 17 June 2009 (strict deadline)
> Workshop day: 7 September 2009
>
> Organization:
> Dr. Mor Peleg
> Senior Lecturer
> Department of Manage
ment Information Systems
> University of Haifa
> Haifa, 31905, Israel
> E-Mail: peleg.mor at gmail.com 
>
http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/<http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/>
> Currently on Sabbatical at BioMedical Informatics Research, Stanford
> University, CA, USA
>
> Prof. Dr. Richard Lenz
> University of Erlangen and Nuremberg
> Department of Computer Sciences
> Computer Science 6 (Data Management)
> Martensstrasse 3
> 91058 Erlangen, Germany
> E-Mail: richard.lenz at informatik.uni-erlangen.de 
> http://www6.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/people/lenz 
>
> Dr. Paul de Clercq
> CEO, Medecs BV
> Horsten 2
> 5612AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands
> E-Mail: p.a.d.clercq at medecs.nl 
> http://www.medecs.nl 
>
>
> Program Committee:
>
> Wil van der Aalst, The Netherlands
> Elske Ammenwerth, Austria
> Joseph Barjis, The Netherlands
> Oliver Bott, Germany
> Paul de Clercq, The Netherlands (Co-chair)
> Dominic Covvey, Canada
> Stefan Jablonski, Germany
> Richard Lenz, Germany (Co-chair)
> Silvia Miksch, Austria
> Bela Mutschler, Germany
> Øystein Nytrø, Norway
> Mor Peleg, Israel (Co-chair)
> Silvana Quaglini, Italy
> Manfred Reichert, Germany
> Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands
> Danielle Sent, The Netherlands
> Yuval Shahar, Israel
> Ton Spil, The Netherlands
> Annette ten Teije, The Netherlands
> Paolo Terenziani, Italy
> Lucineia Thom, Brazil
> Samson Tu, USA
> Dongwen Wang, USA
> Barbara Weber, Austria
>



-- 
Mor Peleg, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
BioMedical Informatics Research
Stanford University School of Medicine
MSOB x-215
251 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA  94305 USA
peleg.mor at gmail.com 

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University of Haifa, 31905, Israel
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