Forum Discussions - Health Informatics Forum

New Member Introduction

2012-05-28T20:29:58.255Z

Hi everyone,

I am currently a student working towards my Bachelor of Science in Health Information Technology at the University of Victoria, B.C, Canada. I have taken two years of general science and one year of Health Informatics, and I am currently taking some summer classes.

As someone recently introduced to this area of study, does anyone have any advice or words of wisdom?

I also was wondering if anyone could tell me about the different directions I could go in terms of employment? I would prefer something with some biology/science involved.

Thanks!

Dessertation Topics

2012-05-28T19:16:53.081Z

Dear All,

I am new this forum and very excited to be part of this.

Can you please advice me few topics ,which are current in the market for my Msc dessertation.I would like to do my dessertation on the latest topics.

Much apprecaited.

thanks

Prashanth

job prospects

2012-05-28T16:59:17.071Z

hey

I'm currently applying to MS in health informatics in usa after completing b.tech cse in India.

I want to know what type of job i will be offered and what the different positions are?

Thanks.

CFP: IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine(BIBM12) (Due May 31)

2012-05-26T04:13:14.733Z

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Call for Papers
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2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM12)

http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/ieeebibm/bibm12/
October 4-7, 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA,

The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
has established itself as the premier research conference in bioinformatics
and biomedicine. IEEE BIBM 2012 provides a leading forum for disseminating
the latest research in bioinformatics and health informatics. It brings
together academic and industrial scientists from computer science, biology,
chemistry, medicine, mathematics and statistics.

We solicit high-quality original research papers (including significant
work-in-progress) in any aspect of bioinformatics and biomedicine. New
computational techniques and methods in machine learning; data mining; text
analysis; pattern recognition; knowledge representation; databases; data
modeling; combinatorics; stochastic modeling; string and graph algorithms;
linguistic methods; robotics; constraint satisfaction; data visualization;
parallel computation; data integration; modeling and simulation and heir
application in life science domain are especially encouraged Relevant topics
include but are not limited to:

1.   Genomics and Molecular Structure, Function and Evolution
       a.      Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics
        b.      Evolution, Phylogeny, Comparative Genomics
        c.      SNPs and haplotype analysis, GWAS
        d.      Protein/RNA Structure, Function and Interactions

2.      Computational Systems Biology
        a.      Transcriptomics - Microarray Data Analysis
        b.      Gene Regulation, Alternative Splicing, Network/Pathway Analysis
        c.      Proteomics, PTMs, Metabolomics
        d.      Epigenomics, non-coding RNA analysis, DNA methylation analysis

3.      Medical Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics
   a.   Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Data Analysis, and
        Electronic Health Record
   b.   Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis
   c.   Genome-Phenome Analysis
   d.   Biomarker Discovery

4.   Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics Infrastructure
   a.   Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
   b.   Biological Data Mining and Visualization
   c.   Computational Modeling and Data Integration
   d.   High Performance Computing

5.   Healthcare Informatics
   a.   Healthcare knowledge representation & reasoning
   b.   Health data acquisition, analysis and mining
   c.   Healthcare information systems
   d.   Clinical Decision Support and Informatics

INDUSTRIAL Track
The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Bioinformatics and
Biomedicine solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on
papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues
related to the use of bioinformatics and biomedicine technologies in industry. We accept
full papers (up to 8 pages), extended abstracts (2-4 pages), as well as short abstracts (1
page, 500 words).

* Journal special issues: IEEE BIBM has a tradition to publish
selected papers as special issues in highly respected journals. So
far we have confirmed the special issues publications with 7
journals: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions onÊ System, Men and Cybernetics,
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, BMC
Bioinformatics, BMC Proteomics, BMC Genomics, BMC Proteomics
Science,Ê Proteomics, Journal of Network Modeling and Analysis in
Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (In the past BIBM conference,
the number of special issues is: BIBM 2011-8 special issues, BIBM
2010-7 special issues, BIBM 2009-4 special issues; BIBM 2008-4
special issues)

* Student Travel Award: BIBM 2012 will offer as many as possible
student travel awards to student authors (including post-doc) (BIBM
2011-28 student travel awards, BIBM 2010-22 student travel awards,
BIBM 2009-16 student travel awards )

* Panel on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Research Challenges and
Opportunities led by top researchers and program managers from NSF
and NIH

Conference Co-Chairs:

Prof. Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA, ungar@cis.upenn.edu
Prof. Cathy Wu, University of Delaware, USA, wuc@dbi.udel.edu

Program Co-Chairs:

Prof. Reda Alhaij, University of Calgary, Canada, rsalhajj@gmail.com
Prof. Jean Gao, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, gao@uta.edu
Prof. Dubitzky Werner, University of Ulster, UK, W.Dubitzky@ulster.ac.uk

Industry Program Committee Chair:

Dr. Anastasia Christianson, AstraZeneca, USA,
    anastasia.christianson@astrazeneca.com

BIBM Steering Committee Chair:

Prof. Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA, thu@cis.drexel.edu

Paper Submission:

Please submit a full-length paper (upto 8 page IEEE 2-column format) through
the online submission system (you can download the format instruction here
http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2012/bibm12/cbc_index.html for Latex or word).
Electronic submissions (in PDF or Postscript format) are required. Selected
participants will be asked to submit their revised papers in a format to be
specified at the time of acceptance.

Online Submission:

http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2012/bibm12/cbc_index.html

Important Dates:

Electronic submission of full papers : May 31, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance     : July 20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers      : August 15, 2012
Conference                           : October 4-7, 2012

New member With a Degree in Informatics Need Advice

2012-05-19T12:42:08.842Z

Hi Health Informatics Community,i am new here and I have found the site by searching through the topic of health informatics,and in my opinion is a gold mine for someone who wants to find more about health informatics.I've been reading through the blogs and forums the last days and i have answered many of my questions ,but a few remain.

I have a bachelor in Informatics (computer technology) and i was thinking of continuing my studies with a master in health informatics.I am currently in a dilemma of what to do and what to choose.I am a bit confused because i mostly see students with a healthcare degree get involved in the field of health informatics and i was thinking it would be a bad choice for someone who has a background of computer technology to get in this field and it would be better for him to chase and pursue other paths and doing a different master. What is your opinion,is it a good choice?what would you recommend?

Also in the field of health informatics and bioinformatics,i see lots of specializations,which would be more appropriate for someone like me?Which is the best path to follow?Also which university is better to attend & which course?I'm not interested in an online degree as i see many universities offer only online courses for health informatics.

Sorry for asking to much.

Any reply & advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks

nigerian students.

2012-05-17T23:04:33.030Z

heaith information in nigeria is still practiced traditionally,please how do we help nigeria and other developing nations improve technologically in the practice of health information.

Career paths in Health Informatics

2012-05-16T13:53:06.489Z

Could you please help me find the career paths in health informatics? currently pursuing BSc in Public health Informatics. what do I study to become a good lecturer in Health Informatics?

Best HI Course Between Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm and City University, London

2012-05-16T10:20:02.040Z

What is in your opinion the best Health Informatics course (taking in account also future job opportunities) between the ones offered by Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm and City University, London?

Thanks,

Andrea

The 'Print' button on Healthcare IT systems

2012-05-13T22:47:07.015Z

Hi all,

I'm a fan of paperless hospitals, I believe there may be only a few hospitals in the world that has gone completely paperless.

I like the fact that healthcare IT systems are helping hospitals to improve performance and digitize patient records. However, I've seen product demo's of some major health IT industry players in the UK..and I've noticed that all of the systems provide the option to print documents/forms of patient records although they are securely entered and stored in the system.

How do you think, the option of printing electronic notes, prescription, test results, etc off the system would encourage hospitals to go paperless?

Many thanks,

IN LOVE WITH THE COURSE, FINANCE IS JUST LIMITING ME

2012-05-11T19:01:26.618Z

PLEASE HOW CAN ONE GET SPONSORS OR SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY MASTERS IN HEALTH INFORMATICS. I ALREADY GOT ADMISSION IN UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. ALREADY DEFERRED IT FOR ONE YEAR. ANOTHER YEAR IS GOING.

ALL KINDS OF ADVICE WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED