ACM Health Informatics Symposium
Arlington, VA, Nov 11-12

IHI 2010 is the inaugural symposium on health informatics promoted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). IHI is designed to run as an annual showcase for exciting and innovative research on techniques and technologies developed in universities, hospitals, research labs, and companies all over the world.

IHI 2010 will feature about 120 contributions from more than 30 countries, including regular 10-page papers, short 5-page papers, and demonstrations. Selected regular papers will be presented in oral plenary sessions. Other papers and demos will be presented by the authors in an open setting, specifically designed to encourage conversation and discussion. The symposium will cover the breadth of problems faced by the community: health informatics education, telemedicine, systems for decision support, human-centered design, information retrieval techniques for health applications, accessibility to personalized predictive modeling techniques, and so on. A highlight of the conference is that we will give awards for the best regular paper and the best short paper.

IHI 2010 reflects a collective community effort including reviewers as well as corporate sponsors, who gave generously of their time and who provided funds to specific areas of the symposium. The following companies and institutions generously provided financial support: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, IBM, Indiana University, Google, Hidola, and Siemens.

Arlington, VA is in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The conference hotel, Hilton Crystal City, is easily accessible by the Washington Metro System and the Reagan National Airport. Within a few subway stops it is possible to reach many of the Washington area museums, monuments, and other attractions.

Online registration is now available at the conference website (ihi2010.sighi.org). We also encourage you to stay at the conference hotel at the pre-negotiated conference rates. A direct link to the Hilton hotel reservation system is conveniently available at the conference website.

The conference co-organizers are looking forward to your visit!