Call for Papers: Encyclopedia of Informatics in Healthcare & Biomedicine

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Encyclopedia of Informatics in Healthcare & Biomedicine
Editor: Athina A. Lazakidou, Ph.D

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LAST CALL FOR SHORT ARTICLES
[ew Deadline for Submissions: Thursday 30th June 2005]
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Information about the New Encyclopedia:
http://people.freenet.de/lazakid/encyclopedia/index.html

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Topics
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*Programming Methodologies in Applications for Health Care,
Biomedicine and Medicine
*Computer Applications for Medical Imaging and Biomedical Image
Analysis
*Computer Applications for Medical and Biomedical Signal Processing
*Health Care Information Systems and Groupware (HIS, CIS etc)
*Web-based Information Systems & Multimedia for Educational Purposes
in Healthcare and Biomedicine
*Distributed/Interactive/Virtual Learning Environments
*Lasers Applications in Medicine and Dentistry
*Decision Support Systems including Knowledge Based Systems
*Knowledge Recovery in Databases, including Data Mining and Methods
*Expert Systems in Biomedicine, Health Care or Medicine
*Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine, Health Care or Medicine
*Evidence-Based Health Care including Computer Assisted Diagnosis and
Prognosis
*Instumentation and Measurement Applied in Biomedical Engineering
*Medical (Biomedical) Devices and Technology
*Basic Concepts of Clinical Data Management & Coding Systems
*Important Medical Coding Systems
*Data Management in Clinical Trials
*Information Management in Biomedicine
*Documentation in Hospital, Clinical and Nursing Information Systems
*Privacy, Confidentiality and Security of Health Information
*Quality of Healthcare Information on the Internet
*Policies on Technology-based Health Education (Policy, Law,
Sociological Issues, Standards in Learning & Teaching)
*Clinical Decision Support Systems
*Social & Ethical Aspects of the Computer-Based Health Records
*Socio-Technical Aspects of Informatics Interventions
*Telemedicine Applications: The Future of the Healthcare
*Any Other Computer Application in Biomedicine, Health Care and
Medicine

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Call for Short Articles
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The Encyclopedia of Informatics in Healthcare & Biomedicine will
provide a compendium of terms, definitions and explanations of
concepts, processes and acronyms. Additionally, this volume will
feature short articles (2,000-2,500 words) authored by leading
experts offering an in-depth description of key terms and concepts
related to different areas, issues and trends in information
science and technologies in hospitals and other organizations
worldwide.

The Encyclopedia of Informatics in Healthcare & Biomedicine is an
excellent source of comprehensive knowledge and literature on the
topic of Health and Biomedical Informatics.

Individuals interested in submitting short articles on suggested
topics or other related topics in their area of interest should
submit an e-mail listing 2-3 selected topics and the short article
(2,000-2,500 words) by June 30, 2005. We strongly encourage other
topics that have not been listed in our suggested list, particularly
if the topic is related to the research area in which you have
expertise. Upon acceptance of your proposal, you will have two
months to prepare the final version of your article (2,000-2,500
words) and 7-10 related terms and their appropriate definitions.

For the title of the paper you can use Times New Roman Fonts
(16pt) and for the ther text Times New Roman (12pt). For the
terms and definitions (at the end of the paper) please use
Times New Roman Fonts (11pt). Other Guidelines for preparing
your short article and terms and definitions as well as a sample
article and terms and definitions are clearly described at this
web site.

Please forward your e-mail of interest including your name,
affiliation and a list of topics (2-3) on which you are interested
in writing a short article to Dr. Athina Lazakidou, editor, at
athina@unipi.gr no later than June 30, 2005.

You will be notified about the status of your proposed topics within
one week.

This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Idea Group
Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com) in
September 2005.

Information about the New Encyclopedia:
http://people.freenet.de/lazakid/encyclopedia/index.html

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Editor
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Dr. Athina A. Lazakidou
Health Informatics Laboratory
University of Piraeus
Karaoli & Dimitriou Str.80
GR-18534, Piraeus
GREECE

E-mail: athina@unipi.gr

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