---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP : ISF Special issue: Informatics Support for Research in Biomedicine Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:32:36 -0400 From: "Professor H. Raghav Rao" mgmtrao@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Dear Colleagues: Please find enclosed a CFP for a Special issue of Information Systems Frontiers (http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/) on Informatics Support for Research in Biomedicine

Guest Editor: Harold P. Lehmann MD Ph.D. Director, Medical Informatics Education, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

Advisory Editor: Dr. Edward Shortliffe, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY.

Regards. Raghav Rao and Ram Ramesh ----------------------------------------- Call for papers - Special issue of ISFrontiers: Informatics Support for Research in Biomedicine

Information technology is fundamentally changing biomedical research and clinical practice. Yet IT support of basic science and clinical research remains primarily craft-oriented on individual projects, and does not receive a treatment from the systems perspective.

To raise the visibility of this issue, we are putting together a special issue devoted to showcasing best practices of research support across the biomedical research landscape, and across the private sector-academic divide. We are seeking papers describing the design and implementation of systems for supporting clinical trials, epidemiological observations, and basic science discovery processes in private organizations, in non-profit settings, and in university environments. Our working hypothesis is that support of research workflow requires more than just attention to the database in which data reside for data analysis, and demands attention to the entire research process. This attention results in an altered and improved environment as research-process knowledge, data silos, and information systems are integrated into a coherent infrastructure.

Recognizing that the funding of such infrastructure, while an important strategic asset, requires persuasion, we hope that this issue will help system architects throughout these enterprises in getting the needed resources for these important efforts.

(Note: The advisory editor of this special issue will be Dr. Ted Shortliffe, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY )

Those interested in submitting a paper must submit the title of the paper and a five line tentative abstract by July 1 to Dr. Harold Lehmann. Manuscript deadline is Sept 1. Manuscripts, preferably in electronic form and following ISF formatting as laid out at the web site, should be sent to Dr. Lehmann. Please address all questions to him.

Guest Editor: Harold P. Lehmann MD PhD Director, Medical Informatics Education Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 407 Blalock 600 North Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD 21287-4461 USA Phone: (410) 614-0843 Fax: (410) 614-9878

e-mail:Harold Lehmann lehmann@jhmi.edu

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