Submission Guidelines

The SPC solicits authors to submit scientific papers addressing a variety of themes, including – but not limited to – the following: 

1. IMIA Track 1: Interpreting health and biomedical data
   • Data interoperability and data integration 
   • Information models and data representation standards 
   • Controlled terminologies, ontologies, and vocabularies 
   • Biomedical imaging and image analysis 
   • Visualization 
   • Natural language processing 
   • Machine learning and data mining 
   • Artificial Intelligence methods and tools 
   • Big data analytics 
   • Health data science 
   • Quality of data and metadata 
    
2. IMIA Track 2: Supporting care delivery
   • Health information systems and evaluation 
   • Electronic health records / electronic patient records  
   • Learning healthcare system 
   • Clinical decision support systems and reasoning 
   • Clinical guidelines 
   • Health-enabling technologies and sensors 
   • Telemedicine and telehealth 
   • Medical robotics 
   • Safety and security of health information systems and medical devices 
    
3. IMIA Track 3: Enabling precision medicine and public health 
   • Individualized therapy 
   • Measuring outcomes 
   • Healthcare quality 
   • Patient safety 
   • Genomics and pharmacogenomics 
   • Public health informatics 
   • Biosurveillance 
   • Registries and health information exchange 
   • Health policy issues  
   • Disaster management 
4. IMIA Track 4: The human element in medical informatics
   • Human computer interfaces and usability 
   • Education and capacity building 
   • Learning analytics for competence assessment 
   • Patient simulators 
   • Serious gaming 
   • Patient empowerment / engagement 
   • Social media, mobile apps, and patient portals 
   • Human factors and technology adoption 
   • Legal, ethical, and regulatory issues 
   • Privacy and consent management 
   • Health information literacy
    

Reduced fee: Applies to (1) students or to (2) applicants from countries in the United Nations list of least developed countries. UN classification: AFGHANISTAN, ANGOLA, BANGLADESH, BENIN, BHUTAN, BURKINA FASO, BURUNDI, CAMBODIA, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, CHAD, COMOROS, CONGO, DEM. REP., DJIBOUTI, ERITREA, ETHIOPIA, GAMBIA, THE, GUINEA, GUINEA-BISSAU, HAITI, KIRIBATI, LAO PDR, LESOTHO, LIBERIA, MADAGASCAR, MALAWI, MALI, MAURITANIA, MOZAMBIQUE, MYANMAR, NEPAL, NIGER, RWANDA, SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE, SENEGAL, SIERRA LEONE, SOLOMON ISLANDS, SOMALIA, SOUTH SUDAN, SUDAN, TANZANIA, TIMOR-LESTE, TOGO, TUVALU, UGANDA, VANUATU, YEMEN, REP., ZAMBIA.

(1) Student status only applies to full-time undergraduate students (not to part-time or postgraduate students) and is limited to 200 registrations, which will be granted on a first-come first-served basis.
(2) If you work in a country of the UN list of least developed countries, you are entitled to a reduced fee as soon as you submit an oral presentation or a poster. Moreover, if your submission is accepted as an oral presentation or a poster, you can apply for registration fee waiver. If you do not work in a country of the UN list of least developed countries and your submission is accepted as an oral presentation or a poster, you can apply for a reduced fee.