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Call for Papers for
Data Mining for Healthcare Quality, Efficiency and Practice Support
Part of the Information Technology in Health Care Track of the
Thirty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences
(HICSS-34)
Maui, Hawaii - January 3-6, 2001

The key to a successful health care program is providing decision makers
and analysts with timely, accurate, accessible information that allows
them to make critical health care decisions. Data mining is a process
that generates such information by finding meaningful new correlations,
patterns, and trends by sifting through large amounts of data stored in
repositories and by using pattern recognition, statistical and
mathematical techniques applied to that information.

Papers are requested that provide demonstrations of how data mining is
currently being used within the health care system, particularly for
early detection (and ideally prevention) of inappropriate patient and
provider behavior.  Theoretical papers that propose new techniques will
also be considered if they give an adequate comparison of their
performance to existing methods in use in health.  Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

* Treatment Patterns
* Disease Detection
* Fraud and Abuse Detection
* Outcome Assessment
* Quality of Care
* Utilization Patterns

Fast tracking: HICSS has a tradition of arranging fast-tracking of the
best papers to relevant peer-reviewed journals.  Select papers from this
minitrack will be invited to form a special issue of the journal Topics
in Health Information Management (to appear August 2001).

Minitrack Chairs:
Dr. Peri H. Iz E-mail: piz@hcfa.gov or izperi@iamdigex.net
Dr. Jim Warren E-mail: warren@cs.unisa.edu.au
Dr. Lisa Sokol E-mail: lsokol@mrj.com

Deadlines (provisional):

March 30, 2000 (or ASAP): 300-word abstract submitted to track chairs or
minitrack chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content.
June 1, 2000: Full papers submitted to minitrack chairs.
August 31, 2000: Minitrack chairs send notice of accepted papers to
Authors.
October 1, 2000: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, sent to minitrack
chair; one author must register by this time.
Nov. 1, 2000: Registration and payment for all others. Registrations
received after this date may not be accepted due to space limitations
For more information about the HICSS conference please check the HICSS
web page for a full listing of the tracks and minitracks:

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu or contact the Track Administrator, Eileen
Dennis, at edennis@uga.edu

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