Hi,
Due to many reasons we extended the deadline to
--> Monday Oct 27, 2003
Best Regards
Silvia & Samson
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Submission deadline for research and short papers: Monday 27 October, 2003
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Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols
(CGP-2004)
organized in the framework of the International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004
http://euromise.vse.cz/cgp04
12 - 14 April, 2004
Novotel Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
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In recent years, guidelines and protocols have gained support as the
vehicles for promoting best practices in clinical medicine. They offer
the possibilities of reducing unwarranted practice variations, of
containing cost while maintaining quality of care, and of defining
standards of care for quality assurance purposes. These promises have
led to an explosion of guideline publications. Yet studies have shown
that dissemination and effective use of guidelines in clinical care
remain a major bottleneck.
A number of researchers have developed different technologies for
delivering computerized guidelines in clinical care. These
technologies range from alerts and reminders to knowledge-based
systems, information-retrieval systems, and others. The tasks to which
guidelines have been applied include classic clinical decision
support, workflow management, quality assurance, and
resource-requirement estimates. The research has spanned several
communities (information retrieval, artificial intelligence, medical
informatics, software engineering, clinical medicine), but
unfortunately, there has been little cross fertilization between the
communities working in this area.
Following the success of the first European Workshop on Computerized
Guidelines and Protocols held at Leipzig, Germany, in 2000, this
symposium seeks to identify use cases for guideline-based applications
in healthcare, computerized methods for supporting the guideline
development process, and pressing issues and promising approaches for
developing usable and maintainable vehicles for guideline delivery. It
will bring together researchers from different communities to examine
cutting-edge approaches to guideline modeling and application
development, to consider how different communities can leverage each
other's strengths, and to discuss additional challenges brought by new
application contexts.
Endorsing Organization
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University of Economics, Prague
European Centre for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (EuroMISE),
Prague
Czech Society of Cybernetics and Informatics
GIN: Guidelines International Network; http://www.g-i-n.net
OeGAI: Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence; http://oegai.at/
Health Level 7 (to be confirmed)
Symposium Format
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This symposium will include invited talks, presentations of papers,
posters, demonstrations of implemented systems, and thematic
discussions based on position statements. There will be ample time for
general discussion.
Topics
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Symposium topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- use cases for computerized guidelines and protocols
- ontological foundation and conceptual models of guidelines and protocols
- modeling and use of goals and intentions of guidelines
- standardization of guideline models and interfaces to clinical information systems
- guideline mark-up languages, document models, and their uses
- temporal dimension of guidelines and protocols
- supporting and managing the life cycle of guidelines and protocols
- guideline workbenches and acquisition and visualization methods
- guideline and protocol validation and verification
- use of ontologies / medical vocabulary in computerized guidelines
- use of formal and simulation techniques in computerized guidelines
- localization and version management issues
- methods of communicating guideline and protocol content to end users
- integration of computerized guidelines in clinical information systems and care
delivery
process
- use of guidelines for quality assessment
- evaluation of computerized guidelines
- quality and safety of computerized guidelines
Submission categories
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We solicit two types of submissions for review:
1. Research papers (up to 15 pages)
2. Short papers (up to 5 pages) that are either
(a) proposals to present demonstration of implemented guideline-based systems
(b) proposals to present work-in-progress as posters or short presentations
In addition, conference attendees are encouraged to submit position
statements explaining the author's interests and current work in
computerized guidelines and protocols (1 page) for inclusion in
workshop notes.
Research papers and short papers will be peer-reviewed for acceptance
and presentation at the workshop. Accepted research papers will be
published by the IOS Press as a volume in the "Studies in Health
Technology and Informatics" series. Research papers should conform to
the format required by the IOS press. (See
http://www.iospress.nl/site/authco/ instruction_crc.html for
details). Short papers and position statements will be collected
together as workshop notes. Both IOS Press volume and workshop notes
will be distributed at the workshop.
Submission instructions
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We strongly prefer submissions of papers in PDF files to be send
electronically to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We encourage to send
PDF files. A free service to convert a number of widely used file
formats to PDF is available at http://createpdf.adobe.com/ (the first
three uses of this service are for free).
Submissions in hardcopy may also be made if electronic submission is
problematic for the authors. In that case, the paper should be sent by
postal mail or courier service to
Silvia Miksch
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (IFS)
Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188
A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe
Symposium activities
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Monday, 12 April, 2004: Welcome party in the evening
Tuesday - Wednesday, 13 - 14 April, 2004: Technical sessions
Wednesday, 14 April, 2004: Farewell party in the evening in the
historic premise of the Charles University
Registration information
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Registration will be done via the website of the International Joint
Meeting EuroMISE 2004:
http://www.euromise2004.org. Registration for CGP2004 consists of
standard registration fee for EuroMISE 2004 (including both social
events) plus additional cost of the IOS Press proceedings of
CGP2004. Details will be specified later.
Important dates
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- Submission deadline for research and short papers: extended to Monday 27 October,
2003
- Notification of paper acceptance: Monday 24 November, 2003
- Camera-ready papers (including position statements) due: Monday 15 December, 2003
- Symposium: April 12-14, 2004
Program committee
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Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (co-chair)
Samson Tu, Stanford University, USA (co-chair)
Michael Balser, University of Augsburg,Germany
Aziz Boxwala, Harvard University, USA
Paul de Clercq, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Joyce van Croonenborg, Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement (CBO), The
Netherlands
John Fox, Cancer Research, UK
Doug Fridsma, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Robert Greenes, Harvard University, USA
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Arie Hasman, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Reinhold Haux, University for Health Informatics and Technology Tyrol
Barbara Heller, University of Leipzig, Germany
Robert Jenders, UCLA, USA
Johan van der Lei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Peter Lucas, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mar Marcos, Universitat Jaume, Castell�, Spain
Eneida Mendonca, Columbia University, USA
Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA
Mor Peleg, Haifa University, Israel
Ian Purves, University of Newcastle, UK
Silvana Quaglini, University of Pavia, Italy
Roberto Roche, Intermountain Health Care, USA
Wolfgang Reif, University of Augsburg, Germany
Kitty Rosenbrand, Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement (CBO), The Netherlands
Brigitte Seroussi, STIM, DPA/DSI/AP-HP, France
Andreas Seyfang, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Richard Shiffman, Yale University, USA
Mario Stefanelli, University of Pavia, Italy
Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Paolo Terenziani, Univ. del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Italy
Thomas Wetter, University Heidelberg, Germany
Dongwen Wang, Columbia University, USA
Local arrangement
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Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Czech Republic
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Silvia Miksch, a.o.Univ.-Prof. PhD. MSc.
Vienna University of Technology
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (IFS)
Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188
A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
url: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia
phone: +43-1-58801-18824
phone-sec: +43-1-58801-18801
fax: +43-1-58801-18899
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