Call for Papers EDBT 2006 Workshop on Information Integration in Healthcare Applications (IIHA) Munich, Germany, March 26, 2006 in cooperation with

10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology Munich, Germany, March 26-30, 2006 Promoted by the EDBT Endowment In cooperation with the VLDB Endowment

Introduction

Healthcare information systems continuously have to be adapted to new requirements,standards, laws, etc. Cost pressure is massively increasing, and at the same time, system complexity is growing. This constantly changing environment is also characterized by highly interdisciplinary processes which depend on timely providing patient related information at the point of care in order to prevent medical errors. In addition, medical knowledge should be provided in a way that enables effective decision support for clinicians. Huge amounts of data with increasingly complex data structures are created in the course of this process, and legacy systems have to be integrated. The core challenge is to establish flexible and responsive IT infrastructures that are capable of effectively adapting to changing requirements.

Information integration thus is a key factor for healthcare applications, as most medical applications are determined by a huge variety of heterogeneous and independent health care institutions that have to share data. The continuity of medical processes has to be improved, and medical pathways will play an important role as integration backbone within institutions and across institutional borders.

In order to ensure efficient and high-quality patient treatment, data have to be exchanged between participating systems in a consistent and appropriate way. In order to avoid information overflow and to ensure that the right information is available at the right place and right point in time, an effective method to organize the flow of information is needed. Various aspects have to be considered in order to support health care professionals in their clinical routine work. In addition, scientists need support for their (distributed) research.

Accepted Papers

The following contributions have been accepted for the workshop and will be presented at the workshop in Munich:

• An integrated platform for analyzing molecular biological data within clinical studies (Toralf Kirsten, Jörg Lange, Erhard Rahm)
• Managing valid time semantics for semistructured multimedia clinical data (Carlo Combi and Barbara Oliboni)
• Context-Sensitive Clinical Data Integration (James F. Terwilliger, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Judith Logan)
• Data integration targeting a drug knowledge base (O. Curé, R. Squelbut)
• A Tag-based Data Model for Privacy-Preserving Medical Applications (Surya Nepal, John Zic, Frederic Jaccard and Gregoire Kraehenbuehl)
• Clinical Document Repository System based on ebXML (Il Kwang Kim, Jae Young Lee, Il Kon Kim, Yun Sik Kwak)
• Augmenting e-SOPs for clinical trials with domain vocabularies (Matthias Löbe)
• Data management in medicine: the EPIweb information system, a case study and some open issues (Pierpaolo Vittorini and Ferdinando di Orio)

Besides paper presentations sufficient room for discussions in the subject area of the workshop will be arranged. The preliminary program will be available soon.

Topics of Interest

According to the banner theme of this EDBT conference "From Database Systems to Universal Data Management" this workshop will focus on all topics which support information integration in healthcare applications. One focal point will be on process related methods and techniques.

The topic of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Data Management in Medicine / Health Care Environments
• Scientific/Medical Workflow Management
• Data Integration in Health Care
• Support of Clinical/Medical Pathway Execution
• Information Flow Management for Integrated Clinical Processes
• Medical Information/Knowledge Management
• Medical Process/Pathway Modelling
• Clinical Vocabularies, Domain Models and Ontologies
• Standards based Information Integration
• Data Integration across Institutional Borders
• Embedding IT support into Clinical Workpractice

Submission

Papers should be submitted in pdf or postscript format (format according to LNCS style) here (submission is closed!). The paper length should not exceed 12 pages. Workshop and submission language is English.
Selected papers will be published as post-workshop proceedings in the LNCS series by Springer.

Program Committee

• Wolfgang Deiters (FhG ISST, Dortmund, Germany)
• Evelyn Hovenga (School of Information Systems, Central Queensland University, Australia)
• Stan Huff (Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, USA)
• Stefan Jablonski (Chair for Database Systems, Uni Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) (Chair)
• Klaus Kuhn (Chair for Medical Informatics, TU Muenchen, Germany)
• Richard Lenz (Institute of Medical Informatics, Uni Marburg, Germany)
• Christian Lovis (Service of Medical Informatics, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland)
• John Mantas (Health Informatics Lab, University of Athens, Greece)
• Sascha Mueller (Chair for Database Systems, Uni Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) (Organization)
• Manfred Reichert (Information Systems Group, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands)

Contact Address

Stefan Jablonski, Workshop Chair
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) <stefan.jablonski.at.cs.fau.de>