Submission Guidelines
SUBMISSION MedInfo 2019 : closed
More than 1100 submissions from 63 countries
The SPC solicits authors to submit scientific papers addressing a variety of themes, including – but not limited to – the following:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.