1. Call for Papers
The IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics
(BHI) is the flagship conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society (IEEE-EMBS) on the specific topic of informatics and computing in
healthcare and life sciences. BHI-2017 will be held at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in
Orlando, Florida, USA, 16-19 February 2017, and is co-located with the annual
HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Orlando.
The main theme of the BHI-2017 is the “Informatics for smart, precision and
preventive medicine.” Advancing health informatics has been identified as a
grand challenge for engineering in the 21st century by the National Academy
of Engineering. Managing and improving human health and curing complex
diseases will require novel and creative informatics methods and solutions to
accelerate scientific discovery, translate discoveries into successful
treatments, re-engineer care practices and infrastructure for precision and
preventive medicine, and harvest big data to improve care, save lives and
lower costs.
The BHI-2017 will provide a unique forum to showcase enabling technologies
of computing, databases, devices, imaging, sensors, and systems that
optimize the acquisition, transmission, processing, monitoring, storage,
retrieval, analysis, visualization and interaction of vast volumes and different
modalities of biomedical data and related social, behavior, environmental,
and geographical information. In addition, it will share how BHI informatics
solutions can be used in novel applications to improve human health, and
how the deployment of bioinformatics, digital imaging, artificial intelligence,
Internet of Things (IoT), m-Health, e-Health, and telemedicine can enable
precision and preventive medicine in the era of digital health.
Networking is one of the most interesting facets of the IEEE BHI 2017
conference and we have dedicated part of the program to social events and
special topics workshops, which are going to provide the BHI-2017
participants opportunities to make personal contacts and cultivate
collaborations. We are looking forward to seeing you in Orlando!
BHI 2017 Organization Committee
Conference co-chairs:
StephenWong (Houston Methodist-Weill Cornell) USA
May D.Wang (Georgia Tech & Emory University) USA
Andrew Laine (Columbia University) USA
Program co-chairs:
Dimitris Fotiadis (University of Ioannina) Greece
Jie Liang (University of Illinois – Chicago) USA
Julien Penders (Bloom-life) USA
IEEE-HIMSS liaison chair:
Elliot Sloane (Villanova University) USA
Workshop co-chairs:
Nantia Nikita (National Technical University of Athens)
Greece
Bahram Parvin (University of Nevada, Reno) USA
Rapid Fire co-chairs:
Constantinos Pattichis (University of Cyprus) Cyprus
Mark van Gils (VTT, Finland) Finland
International program chair:
Metin Akay (University of Houston) USA
Steering Committee:
Chair: Guang ZhongYang (Imperial College London) UK
Vice Chair: May D.Wang (Georgia Tech & Emory University)
USA
IIkka Korhonen (Tampere University of Technology)
Finland
Steffen Leonhardt (RWTH Aachen University) Germany
Nantia Nikita (National Technical University of Athens,
Greece) Greece
YuanTing Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Hong Kong
BHI 2017 Timeline
Sept 1 2016
Submission deadline of special sessions
and workshops
Sept 20 2016
Notification of acceptance for special
sessions and workshops
Oct 20 2016
Submission deadline of full papers
Dec 1 2016
Notification of acceptance of full papers
Dec 15 2016
Submission deadline for 1 page extended
abstracts
Dec 30 2016
Notification of acceptance for extended
abstracts
Jan 15 2017
Submission deadline for final papers and
extended abstractshttp://bhi.embs.org/2017/home/call-for-papers/
16 -19 February 2017 Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando, FL