Connectionists: Call for Papers: Distributed and Parallel Databases: Data Management and Analytics for Healthcare

[Gang Luo]

Distributed and Parallel Databases

             Special Issue Call for Papers
       "Data Management and Analytics for Healthcare"
              www.Springer.com/10619

GUEST EDITORS:
Fusheng Wang (Fusheng.wang at stonybrook.edu)
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook University

Gang Luo (luogang at uw.edu)
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education
University of Washington

Distributed and Parallel Databases invites papers for a special issue
on Data Management and Analytics for Healthcare.

Scope
Healthcare enterprises are producing large amounts of data through
electronic medical records, medical
imaging, health insurance claims, surveillance, and others. Such data
have high potential to transform current healthcare to improve
healthcare quality and prevent diseases, and advance biomedical
research. Medical Informatics is an interdisciplinary field that
studies and pursues the effective use of medical data,
information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving
and decision making, driven by efforts to improve human health and
well-being. This special issue seeks original and high-quality
research articles cross-cutting information management and medical
informatics to discuss innovative data management and analytics
technologies highlighting end-to-end applications, systems, and
methods to address problems in healthcare, public health, and
everyday wellness, with clinical, physiological, imaging,
behavioral,environmental, and omic- data, and data from social media
and the Web. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

*	Big data integration for biomedical data;
*	Data cleansing for noisy and missing data;
*	Medical data and knowledge management and decision support;
*	Data management technologies for medical data;
*	Semantic Web and ontologies for biomedical applications;
*	Medical natural language processing and text mining;
*	Data mining and knowledge discovery from medical data;
*	Algorithms to speed up the analysis of big medical data;
*	Innovative visualization for query and analysis of medical data;
*	Medical image mining;
*	Medical information retrieval;
*	Data privacy and security for healthcare data;
*	Hospital readmission analytics;
*	Medical fraud detection;
*	Social media and Web data analytics for public health;
*	Data analytics for pervasive computing for medical care.

PAPER SUBMISSION:
*	Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that
     has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other
	journals.
*	All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing
     procedures for the Journal.
*	Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines:
     www.springer.com/10619
*	Submit manuscripts to: http://DAPD.edmgr.com.
     Choose “title” as the article type.

Distributed and Parallel Databases www.Springer.com/10619
Editor-in-Chief:
Mohamed F. Mokbel : Professor, University of Minnesota, USA
Amit P. Sheth, Wright State University, USA
Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA


IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: March 31, 2018 (articles will be
    handled as soon as they are received)
First author notification: May 31, 2018
Revised articles due: June 30, 2018
Final author notification: September 1, 2018