HealTAC-2019: The 2nd HealTex Conference (HealTAC-2019) – Unlocking Evidence Contained in Healthcare Free Text Cardiff, UK, April 24-25, 2019 |
Conference website | http://healtex.org/healtac-2019/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healtac2019 |
HealTAC 2019
April 24, 2019 - April 25, 2019
Following the exciting HealTAC 2018, the UK healthcare text analytics network (HealTex /hɛlθɛk/) is organising the second conference in the series next April in Cardiff, Wales.
Healthcare narratives recorded in documents such as encounter notes, discharge letters, nurse handover notes, imaging/pathology reports, patient-generated data posts in surveys and social media, etc. represent a key communication stream that contains the majority of actionable and contextualised information. Despite them being increasingly available in a digital form, they are yet to be routinely analysed on a large scale. The conference aims to bring the academic, healthcare, industrial and patient communities together to explore the current state of the art and share best practice, key results and common challenges.
HealTAC 2019 will bring the academic, clinical, industrial and patient communities together to discuss the current state of the art in processing healthcare free text and share experience, results and challenges. We invite various types of contributions, including long and short papers, posters, PhD student papers, demos and panels, that address the variety of aspects involved in processing and using healthcare free text, including but not limited to:
- Natural language processing of healthcare text
- Information extraction: identification of clinical variables and their values in free-text
- Medical ontologies and coding of healthcare text
- Machine-learning approaches to healthcare text analytics
- Transfer learning for healthcare text analytics
- Processing patient-generated data (e.g. social media, health forums, diaries)
- Processing clinical literature and trial reports
- Integration of structured and unstructured resources for health applications
- Text analytics and learning health systems
- Real-time processing of healthcare free text
- Real-world application of text analytics
- Implementation of healthcare text analytics in practice: public engagement and trust
- Sharing resources for healthcare text analytics (data and methods)
- Evaluation and assessment of text analytics methods
- Text mining for veterinary medicine
- Processing speech in healthcare applications
The event will also provide a forum for PhD students and industrial partners to present their work. The conference will be subsidised by HealTex – so please start preparing you contributions! Here are the key dates:
– Deadline for papers and special sessions/panels: January 21th, 2019 extended to January 31th, 2019
– Deadline for posters, PhD forum and demo proposals: February 15th, 2019
– Notification of acceptance: February 22nd, 2019
– Conference: April 24th and 25th, 2019