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The Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) is an international multi-conference event for Computer Science professionals, researchers and students that occurs under the auspices of the Computing Research and Education Association (CORE), an association of university departments of Computer Science in Australia and New Zealand.

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Australasian Conference on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM)*

The Australasian Conference on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM), formerly the Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM), Health Data and Knowledge Management (HDKM), and Health Knowledge Management and Discovery (HKMD), is a part of the Australasian Computer Science (ACW) Week.

HIKM brings together researchers from the computational intelligence, big health data analytics, health information management and knowledge management in healthcare.

Conference History:

16th Australasian Conference on HIKM 2022, February 14–17, 2022, Virtual venue
Conference Theme: Emerging from the Pandemic
(Host: CORE)

Workshops:
Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management and Health Information – Ethical concerns of AI

Keynotes:
Health Informatics Down Under – Past, Present and Future

Presentations:
Identifying a Minimum Dataset for Enhancing Disaster Healthcare Information Exchange
Planning digital health interventions: Digital collection of patient-reported measures from older adults
Design features and health outcomes of mHealth applications for patient self-management of asthma: a systematic review
Informing App Design to Reduce Self-Management Challenges Identified for Chronic Disease
Evaluation of Tracking Algorithms for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging Exploration
Behavioural Modeling and Cognitive Assessment in Smart Textiles
Third Party Data Service Providers Can Enhance Patient-Provider Interactions: Insights from an Open Banking Delphi Study
Predictive risk modelling in mental health issues using machine learning
Hospital Readmission Prediction Using Clinical Admission Notes
An interpretive study of stakeholders’ privacy issues in blockchain: a healthcare context
Developing a survey to explore online access to medical records using Expectation Confirmation Theory
Enhancing Self-efficacy for Fluid Management in Chronic Kidney Disease with Fitbits and Flex
Revisiting Social Media in Health Care: A Bakhtinian Carnival Perspective
Adaptive Sensing Scheme for smart e-Health IoT Applications Using Asynchronous Data Under Edge
Challenges in Discovering Patient Journey Processes
Analysis of Patient-sharing provider network in MacArthur region, NSW using administrative claim data
CoXercise Perceptions of a Social Exercise Game and its Effect on Intrinsic Motivation
Prioritization of Clinical Alarms using Semantic Features of Vital Signs in Remote
An Ensemble of Machine Learning and Clinician Set Thresholds for Vital Signs Alarms

15th Australasian Conference on HIKM 2021, February 1-4, 2021, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand Virtual venue
(Host: Department of Information Science, Otago University)

Post-conference tutorials (Feb 1):
Practical Ethical and Professional Considerations in Health Data Analytics

Keynotes:
Tracking and tracing COVID-19 NZ using Genomic Data

Panels:
Role of IT in the Pandemic Response

Presentations:
Auditory-Game-Motor Synchronisation with Music Tempo in an Immersive Virtual Reality Exergame
Targeted Health Information Delivery Framework: Evaluation and Feedback from Potential Client End-users
Open Banking and Electronic Health Records
Melanoma classification using EfficientNets and Ensemble of models with different input resolution
Classifying infective keratitis using a deep learning approach
Establishing a Dialog Agent Policy using Deep Reinforcement Learning in the Psychotherapy Domain
Handling uncertainty using features from pathology: opportunities in primary care data for developing high risk cancer survival methods
A comparative analysis of sepsis digital phenotyping methods
On the Importance of Diversity in Re-Sampling for Imbalanced Data and Rare Events in Mortality Risk Models
The implementation of public health and economic measures during the first wave of COVID-19 by different countries with respect to time, infection rate and death rate
Evaluation of Channel Performance in Seizure Prediction

14th Australasian Conference on HIKM 2020, February 4-6, 2020, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
(Host: Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Swinburne University)

Post-conference tutorials (Feb 3):
Introduction to building powerful conversational interfaces – how to create custom chatbots with Google Dialogflow
Introduction to Digital Health Research
Health Data Assets and Data Governance at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Knowledge Discovery and Data Science from the Command Line (Unix shell)

Keynotes:
New Agents in Healthcare Delivery
Natural Language Processing of Electronic Medical Records

Presentations:
An Accurate Neural Network for Cytologic Whole-Slide Image Analysis
Targeted Health Information Delivery Framework: Validation of Staging Engine and Healthcare Practitioners Feedback
Defining the Health Information Technology discipline: results from the 2018 Australian and New Zealand censuses
Data-driven Optimisation of in vivo Radioactive Source-tracking for Real-time Cancer Radiotherapy Treatment Verification
Patient-Centric Mobile App Solution for Cancer Patients
The Recurrence Dynamics of Personalized Depression
Design and Evaluation Process of Integrating Patient-Generated Wellness Data using User-Centred Approach
Design Guidelines for Effective Occupational-Based Personal Health Records
Epileptic Seizure Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network: A Multi-Biosignal study
Effective Patient Similarity Computation for Clinical Decision Support using Time Series and Static Data
FIMIL: A high-throughput and efficient deep learning model for abnormality detection with weak annotation in microscopy images
Computationally Efficient Epileptic Seizure Prediction based on Extremely Randomised Trees
Dynamically Recommending Repositories for Health Data: a Machine Learning Model
“I need to compartmentalize myself”: Appropriation of Instagram for chronic illness management
Enabling near real time surveillance of Influenza like Illness
Online survey design and social media: Leveraging social media for knowledge management
Optimizing Clinical Spatial Resources with IoT
Voice-Controlled Clinical Coding Companion (VC4) for ICD-10-AM and ACHI Code Assignment
HHH: An Online Medical Chatbot System based on Knowledge Graph and Hierarchical Bi-Directional Attention
An Algorithmic Approach to Create Bi-directional Mapping Files Between ICD-10 and ICD-10-AM
Towards Smart Online Dispute Resolution for Medical Disputes

13th Australasian Conference on HIKM 2019, January 29 – 31, 2019, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
(Host: School of Computing, Macquarie University)

Keynotes:
Discovering the potential of Australia’s first person-centric health data set

Presentations:
Towards a Youth Mental Health Screening Analytics Tool
Using Visualization to Illustrate Machine Learning Models for Genomic Data
Analysing Emerging Topics across Multiple Social Media Platforms
Immersive Intelligence Genomic Data Visualisation
Clinically Comprehensible Clustering of Change in Time Series: The C4TS Algorithm
Multivariate Sequential Analytics for Treatment Trajectory Forecasting
Thermal comfort and physical activity in an office setting
HIIT With Hits – Using Music and Gameplay to Induce HIIT in Exergames
An Interactive Visualization Tool for Sensor-based Physical Activity Data Analysis
The use of AI in health
Using mobile health and online social networks to promote physical activity
Towards a Blockchain based Infrastructure to enable Secure Data Accessibility in Predictive Risk Modelling
Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Models: A Scoping Review
Botswana’s Lab-In-A-Briefcase – A Position Paper
Towards a Blockchain based Fall Prediction Model for Agedcare
Understanding the Comorbidity of Multiple Chronic Diseases Using a Network Approach
Topic modelling of vaccine safety signal detection
Development and exploration of polymedication network from Pharmaceutical and Medicare Benefits Scheme data
Detection of smoking events from confounding activities of daily living
Pixel N-grams for the Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy
Analysing Effectiveness of Multi-Label Classification in Clinical Coding
Health Consumer Usage Patterns in Management of CVD using Data Mining Techniques
Integrating Biological Heuristics and Gene Expression Data for Gene Regulatory Network Inference
Cybersecurity Indexes for eHealth
“Can I Trust the Data I See?”-A Physician’s View on Medical Data in IoT Health Architectures
An Overall Health and Well-Being Data Model for Employer-Sponsored Personal Health Records
BYOD in Hospitals- Security Issues and Mitigation Strategies
Generating Log Requirements for Healthcare Processes using Work-Flow Modelling
Systems Design Framework for a Practice-Based Evidence Approached Clinical Decision Support Systems
Design and Implementation of a Framework for a Health Information Survey System

Doctoral Consortium Presentations:
Socio-Technical Perspective on Managing Type II Diabetes
Developing a best practice framework for monitoring data quality in health research

Student presentation panel

12th Australasian Conference on HIKM 2018, January 31 – February 2, 2018, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
(Host: Research Computing Centre, University of Queensland)

Post-conference tutorials: (Feb 2)
Cybersecurity
openEHR
Complementary Medicine Informatics

Keynotes:
Digital Health – what does this mean for you
Health Information Workforce Census: development of the first inclusive census with global applicability
Algorithms and intimacy: Social Media on Smart Phones and the marketing of Sugar Sweetened Beverages to young people in South Africa and Australia; some observations and implications for public health campaigners in the context of global increases in the prevalence of obesity
Providing the right balance – a holistic approach to developing safe health ICT solutions

Presentations:
Design of a technology-delivered Motivational Interviewing intervention for youth empowerment
Data Analytics to Select Markers and Cut-off Values for Clinical Scoring
Crowdsourcing Based Social Awareness for Taboo Diseases like HIV/AIDS
Datamining Techniques in Breast Cancer: Analysis and Potential
Detecting short duration ambulatory episodes in Fitbit data
Dementia Virtual Assistant as Trainer and Therapist-Identifying Significant Memories and Interventions of Dementia Patients
Modeling neurocognitive reaction time with Gamma distribution
A Semantic System for Answering Questions in Neuroinformatics
Patient journey modelling: Is a single continuous clinical care venue essential to good patient outcomes? A retrospective analysis of administrative data enhanced with detailed clinical care review
Doctors’ perception of the potential of EHR: A Singapore insight
Educating for the next health revolution – are we failing the frontline?
Large Scale Modeling of Genetic Networks Using Gene Knockout Data
Employees’ Perceptions of Sharing Employer-Sponsored Personal Health Records
Approaches for the Visualisation of Health Information

HIKM2018—Doctoral Consortium
HIKM2018—Abstracts

11th Australasian Workshop on HIKM 2017, February 1, 2017, Deakin University, Geelong (Melbourne), Australia
(Host: School of Information Technology, Deakin University)

Seminars:
Special Seminar on Standards and Interoperability in Healthcare: The new challenges in the Healthcare Internet of Things (HIoT)

Keynotes:
Evolving Concurrent Systems – Behavioural Theory and Logic

Panels:
Invited panel (TBA)

Presentations:
Bullseye Structured Passage Retrieval and Document Highlighting for Scholarly Search
Characterising relational view updates using relative information capacity
Dynamic Temporal Constraints in Business Processes
Characterizing IT-Based Consumer Health Artefacts
Understanding chronic disease comorbidities from Baseline Networks – knowledge discovery utilising administrative healthcare data
Vulnerabilities Associated with Wi-Fi Protected Setup in a Medical Environment
Security of EPrescriptions: Data in Transit Comparison Using Existing and Mobile Device Services
Data-Driven Patient Segmentation Using K-Means Clustering: The Case of Hip Fracture Care in Ireland

10th Australasian Workshop on HIKM 2016, February 3, 2016, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
(Host: Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University)

Presentations:
Delegation of access in an Information Accountability Framework for eHealth
Chronicling the patient journey: Co-creating Value with Digital Healthcare Ecosystems
Patient Journey Modelling as a Policy Mapping Method: Enhancing the Understanding of Policy Analysis
Evaluation of Tri-axial accelerometery data of falls for elderly through smart phone
Design of a Virtual Trainer for Exergaming
Data Integration for Mobile Wellness Apps to Support Treatment of GDM
Eye Atlas: A Resource for Ophthalmology Students
Adapting Graph Theory and Social Network Measures on Healthcare Data – a New Framework to Understand Chronic Disease Progression
Quantifying Mood, Content and Dynamics of Health Forums

9th Australasian Workshop on HIKM 2015, January 29, 2015, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia
(Host: School of Computing, Engineering & Math, University of Western Sydney)

Invited Talks:
Big Data/Little Data: Reflections on the Role of Data in Improving Healthcare

Presentations:
Development and Evaluation of an Exercycle Game Using Immersive Technologies
Trialling a Personal Falls Monitoring System using Smart Phone
A Content-Based-Image-Retrieval Approach for Medical Image Repositories
Evaluation of Cross-platform Development Tools for Patient Self-Reporting on Mobile Devices
Improving Data Quality in Disease Registries and Clinical Trials: A Case Study from the ENSAT-CANCER Project
The security and privacy of usage policies and provenance logs in an Information Accountability Framework
The potential for Machine Learning Analysis over Encrypted Data in Cloud-based Clinical Decision Support – Background and Review
A Visualization System for Analyzing Biomedical and Genomic Data Sets Using Unity3D Platform
Simulating hospital patient flow for insight and improvement
Applying International Guidelines for Telehealth Services- a case study
Evaluation Study of Australian Telehealth Projects

8th Australasian Workshop on HIKM 2014, January 22 – 23, 2014, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
(Host: Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology)

Invited Talks:
Challenges and Opportunities in eHealth

Presentations:
Social Media and Online Survey: Tools for Knowledge Management in Health Research
Crowdsourcing for Clinical Research – An Evaluation of Maturity
What Pacific People Think of Online Mental Health Information
Investigating the Potential of Interactive Media to Encourage Engagement with Type 1 Diabetes Management
Automatic Population of Structured Reports from Narrative Pathology Reports
BiomRKRS: A Biomarker Retrieval and Knowledge Reasoning System
Developing High Risk Clusters for Chronic Disease Events with Classification Association Rule Mining
Prescription Patterns for Pacific Patients with Poor Cardiovascular Disease Medication Supply
Building an Empirical Treatment Protocol from High-Resolution Traumatic Brain Injury Data
Health Intelligence: Discovering the Process Model Using Process Mining by Constructing Start-to-End Patient Journeys

7th Australasian Workshop on HIKM 2013, January 31, 2013, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
(Host: School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia)

Keynotes:
Clinical bioinformatics: decision support through data and knowledge integration

Presentations:
Analysing homogenous patient journeys to assess quality of care for patients admitted outside of their ‘home-ward’
The Role of Electronic Medical Records in the Identification of Suboptimal Prescribing for Hypertension Management: An Opportunity in Unchanged Therapy
Validating Synthetic Health Datasets for Longitudinal Clustering
The new Royal Adelaide Hospital –The Age of the Digital Hospital Dawns in South Australia
Next Generation Linkage Management System

6th Australasian Workshop on HIKM 2012, February 1, 2012, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
(Host: School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University)

Opening Address:
Knowledge Management in Biomedical Translational Research

Presentations:
The Role of Emotional Intelligence on the Resolution of Disputes Involving the Electronic Health Record
Detection of Evidence in Clinical Research Papers
Evaluation of Web 2.0 Technologies for Developing Online Telehealth Systems
Achieving Acceptable Structured eReferral Forms
A Bayesian Analysis on Historical Clinical Data Concerning Treatment Change for HIV/AIDS Patients
Inducing and Storing Generalised Evidences using Semantic Web Formalisms
Gaining Insight from Patient Journey Data using a Process-Oriented Analysis Approach
Effects of Physician Collaboration Network on Hospital Outcomes

5th Australasian Workshop on HIKM 2011, January 20, 2011, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
(Host: Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology)

Presentations:
Decision Support Based Needs Assessment for Cancer Patients
The ChronoMedIt Temporal Medical Audit Framework: Progress and Agenda
Leveraging Web 2.0 and Consumer Devices for Improving Elderlies’ Health
Real time processing of data from patient biodevices
Coupling of Indigenous-patient-friendly cultural communications with Clinical Care Guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Web-Based Database and SMS to Facilitate Healthcare Medical Emergency
Opportunities for Knowledge Management Tools in Clinical Genetic Services
Chronic Disease Management: a Business Intelligence Perspective
Defining the Paperless Workplace with the Paper Metaphor – not a Contradiction in Terms

4th Australasian Workshop on HIKM 2010, January 18-21, 2010, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
(Host: School of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology)

Keynotes: (1)
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Session: e-Health Systems
A Secure Architecture for Australia’s Index Based E-health Environment
Design of an automatic appointment system to improve patient access to primary health care
Access to E-Health information for the eNomad

Session: Data mining and knowledge discovery
A framework for multi-dimensional temporal clinical data
Automatic sleep stage identification: difficulties and possible solutions
Visualising a State-wide Patient Data Collection: A Case Study to Expand the Audience for Healthcare Data

Session 4: Text mining and searching
High Accuracy Information Retrieval and Information Extraction System for Electronic Clinical Notes
A Study on the Use of Search Engines for Question Answering in Biomedicine
Customisable Linked Data in Biology and Medicine
Assessing Text Characteristics of Electronic Discharge Summaries and their Implications for Patient Readability

3rd Australasian Workshop on HIKM 2009, January 22, 2009, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
(Host: School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington)

Invited Talks:
Making 12,000 Healthcare Organisations Interoperate, and Other Challenges

Presentations:
Assessing Viewing Pattern Consistency in Mammogram Readers
A classification algorithm that derives weighted sum scores for insight into disease
Characterizing Image Properties for Digital Mammograms
Privacy and Security in Open and Trusted Health InformationSystems
Understanding the implementation of an electronic hospital information system in a developing country: a case study from Pakistan
GP attitudes towards using HI Systems in their professional role

2nd Australasian Workshop on HDKM 2008, January 24-25, 2008, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
(Host: School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong)

Keynotes: (1)
n.a.

Presentations:
Open trusted health informatics structure (OTHIS)
Febrl: a freely available record linkage system with a graphical user interface
Security enhanced Linux to enforce mandatory access control in health information systems
Breast cancer survivability via AdaBoost algorithms
e-Research meets e-Health
A platform-independent approach for auditing information systems
Towards an architecture for quality audit reporting to improve hypertension management
Automatically generated consumer health metadata using semantic spaces

1st Australasian Workshop on HKMD 2007, February 2, 2007, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
(Host: School of Information Technology & mathematical Science, University of Ballarat)

Keynotes: (1)
n.a. (CANCELLEDß)

Presentations:
Hospital Management Knowledge Discovery using Discrete Event Simulation
An Automated System for Conversion of Clinical Notes into SNOMED Clinical Terminology
A Data Warehouse Architecture for Clinical Data Warehousing
Determining Pattern Element Contribution in Medical Datasets
Extracting Semantics in a Clinical Scenario. In Proc. Australasian Workshop on Health Knowledge Management and Discovery
Take Heart II: a Modular Bayesian Decision Support System
An Interactive Knowledge-based Learning Environment for Transferring Health Knowledge
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