MEDINFO 2013

Scientific Program Committee

MEDINFO Program

• Conference theme: – Conducting medical informatics by Converging technologies,

Conveying sciences and Connecting people• 4 tracks:

– Representing and understanding biomedical knowledge– Enhancing care, patient safety and outcome– Managing care information and workflow– Enabling cost-effective health care

• Special focus:– “Care for the World” – eHealth activities aimed at improving

health care and quality of life for every world citizen

MEDINFO Program• 5 keynote presentations + 1 WHO Keynote panel• 186 papers – 38 sessions

(full papers, vision papers, student papers)• 310 posters – 4 sessions• 28 panels• 18 workshops• 8 scientific demonstrations• 4 Care for the World Mini-Symposia• 17 tutorials• Student Paper Competition

Geographic Distribution

• No. of countries represented in accepted presentations: 56 across 6 IMIA member regions

Africa2%

Asia Pacific27%

Europe36%

Latin America6%

Middle East1%

North America27%

Scientific Program CommitteeProgram Co-Chairs:

Dominik Aronsky Switzerland/US

Tze Yun Leong ‐ Singapore

Track-Chairs:

James Cimino USA Andre Kushniruk CanadaFernando Martin Sanchez ‐ Australia Niels Peek Netherlands

Members:Wendy Chapman USA Walter Curioso Peru Amado Espinosa Mexico Peter Haddawy Macau, ChinaLyn Hanmer South Africa Nicolas Hardiker UKChien Yeh Hsu‐ TaiwanFinn Kensing Denmark Michio Kimura JapanChristian Lovis Switzerland Daniel Luna Argentina Brad Malin USARae Woong Park South KoreaHans Ulrich Prokosch‐ GermanyNajeeb Al Shorbaji‐ JordanRicky Taira USAPaolo Terenziani Italy Lucy Westbrooke New Zealand

Scientific Program CommitteeStudent Paper Competition Committee

Chair: Ameen Abu Hanna‐

Paper Awards Committee

Riccardo BellazziReinhold HauxCasimir KulikowskiRobert A. JendersElmer V. BernstamJean Marie RodriguesSiaw-Teng LiawPirkko NykänenJohanna Westbrook

Distinguished paper & poster nominations: - 11 papers, 17 posters- Awards to be announced during closing session

Submissions (n = 862)

Total Submissions:

All papers: 519- full Papers: 402- vision Papers: 34- student Papers: 83

Posters 230Workshops 34Panels 45Demos 14Mini-Symposium 5Tutorials 15

Final acceptances:

All papers: 190 (36%)- full papers 147- vision papers 8- student papers 35

Posters 410 (paper-to-poster)Workshops 18Panels 28 Demos 8 Mini-Symposium 4

Tutorials 23 (plus invited)

Review Process

• Invited paper reviewers • > 400 reviewers agreed to participate (only 10% were

unable to participate after having agreed)• 379 reviewers completed 3 to 8 reviews• > 1700 paper reviews have been completed– 44% with 4 reviews – 45% with 3 reviews– 11% with 2 reviews

• SPC members rated the quality of the reviews• SPC co-chairs, track chairs and LOC met in February 2013

in Pavia (Italy)

How papers were selected ...

SPC co-chairs, track chairs and LOC met in February 2013 in Pavia (Italy)

«The Paper Mill»Historical Collection, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione, Pavia, Italy

SPC meeting in PaviaDiscussing submissionsfor acceptance

The hardest part:Choosing a dinner place

Editorial Process

• Editorial Committee– Christoph U. Lehmann - chair– Elske Ammenwerth– Christian Nøhr

• Papers were edited by 20 assistant editors as GoogleDocs (120 papers had moderate to heavy editing)

• Process allowed author involvement and final approval during the editing process

http://ebooks.iospress.nl/

Papers already in PubMed®

Reviewers – Thank you !

Outstanding Reviewers Bartz Claudia Manders Eric-Jan Bouamrane Matt-Mouley Nguyen Anthony Callen Joan Ong Mei-Sing Criegee-Rieck Manfred Roehrig Rainer Cullen Rowena Schulz Stefan Effken Judith Shahar Yuval Georgiou Andrew Swift Stephen González-Ferrer Arturo Tara Mahmoud Gurulingappa Harsha Toddenroth Dennis Gustav Bellika Johan Tong Maurine Hunter Inga Torii Manabu Ingenerf Josef Trinczek Benjamin Jenders Robert Valdez Rupa Jing Xia Valenta Annette Lau Annie Weng Chunhua Loebe Matthias Whetton Sue Luo Jake-Zhihui Wilbur W. John

Finally ….

… let’s discuss, present, meet, “un-conference”, connect, network, exchange ideas, agree, plan, listen, and … have fun!We hope you …