Theme
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 and Empowerment
- Connected and Digital Health
- Human, Organizational and Social Aspects
- Medical and Healthcare Knowledge Management
- Patient Safety, Care Quality and Clinical Outcomes
- Continuum of Care in Chronic Diseases and Aging Population through Informatics
- Telehealth and Smart Health for the Ageing Population
- Application of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Clinical Practice, Clinical Research Data and Innovations
- Public-Private Partnerships towards UHC and the SDGs
- International Standard for Medical Informatics
- Biobank and Health Big Data Science
- Data Verification & Validation
- Nursing Informatics
- Bio informatics
- Ethical, Legal and Social Studies on Medical Data
- Security and Privacy
- Health Technology Strategy and Blueprint
- Medical Information System Architecture
[1] Patient Engagement and Empowerment
- 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] 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
- Uidelines and protocols
- Hospital and clinical information systems
- Open data and open source systems
- Sustainability of health and care
- Workflows and socio-organizational impact
- User-centric design, usability engineering and human-computer interaction
[4] 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
[5] Patient Safety, Care Quality and Clinical 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
[6] Continuum of Care in Chronic Diseases and Aging Population through Informatics
- Clinical information systems
- Evaluation
- Healthcare quality
- Measuring outcomes
- Quality of data, metadata
- Continuum of Care in Chronic Diseases
- Aging Population Healthcare
[7] Telehealth and Smart Health for the Ageing Population
- Intelligent Software
- Prototypes
- Solutions supporting Healthcare Professionals
- Connected care
- Digital health literacy
- Electronic health records
- Uidelines and protocols
- Hospital and clinical information systems
- Integrated Care
[8] Application of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Clinical Practice, Clinical Research Data and Innovations
- AI-empowered clinical decision support systems
- AI methods and tools
- Clinical evaluation of AI tools
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence
- Health data science, big data, healthcare analytics
- Individualized therapy
- Symbolic and Semantic Reasoning
- Learning healthcare systems
- Predictive Modeling and Risk Prediction
[9] Public-Private Partnerships towards UHC and the SDGs
- Digital divide/li>
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Informatics
- Health information literacy
- Informatics Competencies for Diverse Audiences
- Patient empowerment / engagement
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social media, apps, and patient portals
[10] International Standard for Medical Informatics
- Information retrieval/li>
- Interoperability and standards
- Standards for exchanging health information
[11] Biobank and Health Big 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
- Interoperability and standards
- Learning healthcare systems
- Molecular sequence processing
- Natural language and speech processing
- Personalized and precision medicine
[12] Biobank and Health Big Data Science
- Data Verification
- Data Validation
- Data Quality
- Data Check
[13] Nursing Informatics
- 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
[14] Bio informatics
- Genomics and pharmacogenomics
- Precision medicine
- Translational informatics
[15] Ethical, Legal and Social Studies on Medical Data
- Legal, ethical, and regulatory issues
- Health policy issues
- Privacy and consent management
[16] Security and Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data safety
[17] Health Technology Strategy and Blueprint
- Government Policy