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Explore the highlights of the ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium in Miami. Discover cutting-edge research topics, invited talks, and innovative demos shaping the future of healthcare data analytics and knowledge management. Uncover how the Semantic Web is revolutionizing health informatics through tutorials and live demos. Delve into the role of social networking sites in disseminating information on stigmatized illnesses. Gain insights from presentations on ICT adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa, human motion recognition, and public health community mining on YouTube.
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2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium January 28-30, 2012 Miami, Florida, USA
Highlights • 223 attendees • 2 invited talks • Authors from 38 countries submitted 269 papers across the different tracks • 4 Panels, 3 Tutorials • Regular 10-page papers: 68 accepted - 25% • Short 5-page papers: 31 accepted • Demos: 8 accepted
Invited talks • Biomedical Text Mining for Semantic Search and Knowledge Discovery • Professor Sophia AnaniadouSchool of Computer ScienceUniversityofManchester • Brain-Computer Interfaces: Progress, Problems, and Possibilities • Jonathan R. Wolpaw, M.D.Chief, Laboratory of Neural Injury and Repair Universityof New York
Topics • Data • Data acquisition - Intelligentmedicaldevices and sensors • Data analytics, data mining, and machine learning • Knowledge management - Semantic Web, linkeddata • (Privacy) • Healthcare communication networks and environments • Interactions with health information technologies
Role of Semantic Web in Health Informatics • Tutorial • Introduction, RDF, SPARQL, … • Live Demo • Provides interface for medical staff to build they own queries instead of asking computer analytics . • Matching of patients based on similarity of one measurement/condition and finding correlation in others
DisseminatingInformationonStigmatizedIllnessesviaSocialNetworkingSitesDisseminatingInformationonStigmatizedIllnessesviaSocialNetworkingSites • Users to send anonymous messages (Veiled messages) to known friends. Recipients know that a message is from a friend of theirs, but not which friend • Trusted source + anonymity
Presentations • A Meta-analysis of ICT Adoption and Use by Medical Professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa • Human Motion Primitive Identification and Activity Recognition Using a Bag-of-Features Approach • Public Health Community Mining in YouTube