The 2023 International Workshop on Health Informatics Education (HI-Edu 2023)

in Conjunction with the 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics ICHI 2023

June 26, 2023, Houston, Texas, USA

• Overview
• Topics
• Submission
• Publication
• Organizing Committee
• Important Dates
• Schedule
• Registration
• Link to the Previous Workshop
• More Information

Overview

The advancement in biotechnologies and health information technology has created the opportunity to generate and collect digital health-related data. The wide adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems, smart devices, and social media has produced enormous amounts of data. To utilize the rich data in health care, it is an urgent need to train many qualified Health Informatics (HI) professionals and researchers to manage, explore, analyze, and explain the healthcare data. For that purpose, many new health informatics (HI) education programs have been created in the last decade.

Researchers and educators also have devoted significant time and efforts to explore the best approaches for providing high-quality HI education so that HI graduates can overcome the challenges they face in their careers. However, as an interdisciplinary field, there are different patterns of HI education around the world with various challenges. Moreover, the large amount of health data presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges for training with hands-on experiences on real-world data to solve real-world problems.

To shape the future of health informatics education, the 2023 International Workshop on Health Informatics Education (HI-Edu 2023) will provide a unique platform for close interactions among educators, researchers, students, scholars, and industry professionals who are interested in HI education. HI-Edu 2023 will be a one-day workshop that consists of a keynote speech, an invited talk, podium talks, and poster presentations. We are calling for full papers (regular and short papers) and abstracts on novel approaches, work in progress, and original state-of-the-art projects in HI education activities, HI education program development, HI education research, tools and resources for HI education, and cases studies.

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Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• HI Education Research: any original educational research in HI education
• HI Education program development and curriculum improvement
• Pedagogy for High Quality HI Education: any general or specific pedagogy for HI education.
• Tools and Resources for HI Education: such as data sets, apps, websites, etc., for HI education.
• Challenges in HI Education: any challenges and obstacles facing the HI education and training
• The Current state of HI education: such as the global environment in HI education and training.
• HI Education: opportunities and constraints
• Case studies: best practice, research projects, and case studies in HI education and training

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Submission and Review

We are inviting contributions to the HI-Edu 2023, including regular papers, short papers, and abstract for posters.

• Regular papers (8-10 pages, references not counted towards the page limit) will describe mature ideas, where a substantial amount of implementation, experimentation, or data collection and analysis has been completed.
• Short papers (4-6 pages, excluding references) will describe innovative ideas, where preliminary implementation and validation work have been conducted.
• Abstracts (1 page, including references) will describe work in progress and preliminary results.

Your submissions must adhere to the IEEE Proceedings Format. All papers will be submitted and handled through EasyChair. When it is time to select a Track, please choose "HI-EDU workshop". Submissions must contain the names and affiliations of authors listed on the paper. The review process will be single-blinded.

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Presentation and Publication

All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Accepted papers have an oral presentation slot at the conference. Accepted abstracts will have a poster presentation slot.

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Organizing Committee

Chairs:

• Leming Zhou, PhD, Leming.Zhou@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh, US
• Huanmei Wu, PhD, huanmei.wu@temple.edu, Temple University, US
• Yanshan Wang, PhD, yanshan.wang@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh, US.
• Stephen Abah, FWACP, abah.steve@fuhso.edu.ng, Federal University of Health Sciences Otukpo, Nigeria.

Steering committee:

• Bambang Parmanto, PhD, parmanto@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh, US.
• David Marc, PhD, dmarc@css.edu, College of St. Scholastica, US.
• Dilhari DeAlmeida, PhD, drd7@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh, US.
• Hongfang Liu, PhD, Liu.Hongfang@mayo.edu, Mayo Clinic, US.
• Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, valgeo@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh, US.

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Important Dates:

• Deadline for full paper submissions: March 21, 2023
• Notification of workshop paper acceptance: March 28, 2023
• Camera ready workshop paper due: April 15, 2023
• Workshop date: June 26, 2023

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Schedule

• Keynote Speech , Susan H. Fenton, PhD, RHIA, ACHIP, FAMIA, UTHealth Houston, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM (1 hour)
• Invited Talk, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM (30 minutes)
  • Amanda Stefan, CAHIIM, Health Informatics Program Accreditation

• Coffee break (10:00 AM - 10:30 AM)

• Paper presentations, 15 minutes each, including 12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes discussion
  
  • Vincent Major, Claudia Plottel and Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs, "Ten Years of Health Informatics Education for Physicians" (10:30 AM - 10:45 AM)
  • Sahaja Ratna, Saptarshi Purkayastha and Cathy Fulton, "Improving Health Informatics Competencies Using an Open-source Educational EHR" (10:45 AM - 11:00 AM)

• Paper presentations, 15 minutes each, including 12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes discussion
  
  • Rob Quick, Marcela Alfaro Cordoba, Stephan Diggs, Raphael Cobe, Louise Bezuidenhout, Hugh Shannahan and Bianca Peterson, "Foundational Data Science Training for Health Equity Researchers at Minority Serving Institutions: A SoRDS Event" (11:00 AM - 11:15 AM)
  • Duo Helen Wei, Keith Kiminsky, Patrick Hamill and Quynh Nguyen, "Involving Undergraduates into Health Informatics Research via Project-Based Learning Classes – A Case Study" (11:15 AM - 11:30 AM, virtual)
  • Toufeeq Ahmed, Aidan Hoyal, Katie Stinson, Jay Johnson, Zainab Latif, Legand Burge, Alexander Libib, Guodong Gao, Nawar Shara and Jamboor Vishwanatha, "AIM-AHEAD Connect: Online Collaboration, Mentoring, and Data Science Training Platform to Increase Researcher Diversity and Advance Health Equity" (11:30 AM - 11:45 AM)
  • Hua Min, Hedyeh Mobahi and Janusz Wojtusiak, "Application of Synthetic Datasets across Courses in Health Informatics Education" (11:45 AM - 12:00 PM)

• Lunch break (1 hour)

• Paper presentations, 15 minutes each, including 12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes discussion
  
  • Sripriya Rajamani, Sarah Solarz, Amber Koskey, Taylor Dawson, Ann Kayser, Hannah Woods, Chris Brueske and Aasa Schmit, "Informatics Workforce to Support the Data Modernization Initiative: Assessment and Capacity Building at a State Public Health Agency" (1:00 PM - 1:15 PM)
  • Bari Dzomba, Kesa Bond and Cathy Flite, "Blowing Chunks with ChatGPT" (1:15 PM - 1:30 PM, virtual)
  • Jay Patel, Omotese Oaikhena, Than Phan, Hoa Vo, Javad Alizadeh and Huanmei Wu, "The Landscape of Health Informatics Education in Low- or Middle-Income Countries" (1:30 PM - 1:45 PM, virtual)

• Digital Poster presentation, 10 minutes each
  

  Accepted Poster Abstracts:

  • Sripriya Rajamani, Yasmin Odowa and Rebecca Wurtz, "Foundational Course in Public Health Informatics to meet Training Needs and Build Workforce Capacity" (1:45 PM - 1:55 PM)
  • Caroline Spice, Anjulie Ganti and Houda Benlhabib, "So you want to talk about race AND genetics?" (1:55 PM - 2:05 PM)

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Registration

Link to the conference Registration

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Link to the Previous Workshop

The 2022 International Workshop on Health Informatics Education (HI -Edu 2022)

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More Information

For more information about IEEE ICHI 2023, please visit https://ieeeichi.github.io/ICHI2023/

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