There are many interesting challenges in delivering intelligent decision support in the health domain. Collections of documents such as health records, scholarly publications, clinical trials, or drug orders grow at high rates and are distributed around the globe in a fragmented manner. Health data is highly multi-modal (clinical notes, time series, medical images, genomics etc.) and its interpretation is domain specific. Users of health information systems have different levels of expertise, and information needs, e.g., a patient vs. a primary care physician vs. cancer researcher. At the same time, the data is highly sensitive and subject to legal requirements regarding privacy, security, and confidentiality. This breadth of challenges requires interdisciplinary approaches. The Information Retrieval (IR) and Data Mining (DM) communities are particularly well-positioned to tackle these problems.
Search, recommendation, and information extraction systems help lay and expert users explore ever-growing collections. Decision support systems assist in complex decision making processes. Intelligent user interfaces present the right information at the right time and allow for unobtrusive interaction all the way from the lab to the bedside. Mobile device applications and other sensors help provide a more holistic view on the patient's case than what can be gleaned in an 10-minute physician interview.
Health-related topics of interest include, among others:
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Just author names, please.
We recommend using \documentclass[sigconf,nonacm]{acmart} to hide the copyright block.
Yes, 2020 is correct.
This is ultimately up to you but we recommend including an intro sentence along the lines of "This work was presented at the first Health Search and Data Mining Workshop (HSDM 2020) [x]"
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