----------------------------------------------------------------------- Visualizing Electronic Health Record Data (Workshop) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A workshop of the IEEE VIS 2014 Conference (Paris, 9-14 November 2014) Catherine Plaisant, Silvia Miksch, Theresia Gschwandtner, Sana Malik http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/parisehrvis Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases contain millions of patient records including events such as diagnoses, test results, or medication prescriptions. These records are an invaluable data source for clinical research and improvement of clinical quality, as they provide longitudinal health information about patient populations. The use of EHR databases could be dramatically improved if easy-to-use interfaces allowed clinical researchers and quality improvement analysts to explore complex patterns in order to build and test hypotheses regarding the benefits, risks, and appropriateness of treatments or medication regimens. Novel strategies in information visualization and visual analytics are needed. The interest in this topic is growing at very rapid pace and is very interdisciplinary by nature, both in term of field (medicine and computer science) but also research environment (academic research as well as industry and government agencies). Because of the European location of the conference, we have a unique opportunity to create bridges and explore new collaborations between groups that would have never met otherwise. Dates: Deadline: JULY 25th 2014 (submit short paper to present) Notification: AUGUST 8th 2014 Workshop: NOVEMBER 9 or 10 (to be finalized by VIS committee) To participate: the workshop is open to all VIS 2014 attendees Seehttp://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/parisehrvis for more details