Programme

The programme features keynote talks, research papers, discussion panels, software demos and poster sessions. The PhD forum will feature talks from early carer researchers presenting their ongoing research. Programme outline …

Demos

Demo sessions will provide researchers and practitioners a platform for demonstrating text analytics software systems and showcasing the benefits of text mining applications in healthcare. This will provide a great …

Panels

  Introduction A panel is a 90-minute session during the main conference programme that focuses on a specific challenge, application area or methodological development. A panel would typically feature 3-5 …

PhD student forum (April 18th, 2018)

HealTAC PhD student forum 9:00-11:00, Wednesday April 18th, 2018   Introduction While there have been a number of successful applications of NLP technologies to clinical and patient-generated narrative, there are …

Organisation

Organising Committee John Carroll, University of Sussex George Demetriou, University of Manchester Elizabeth Ford, Brighton and Sussex Medical School Claire Grover, University of Edinburgh Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester (Chair) …

Contact

If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at contact@healtex.org. Latest updates about the conference will be available at @UK_healtex. The hashtag for the event is #HEALTAC2018.

Venue, Accommodation and Travel

Information for participants The conference will start at 9:00am on Wednesday and finish by 5pm on Thursday. The conference venue is a short walk from both Piccadilly and Oxford Road …

Registration

Registration is now open here.   Early registration fees – until March 18th 2018 £50 for PhD students and £100 for all other participants   Late registration fees £75 for PhD …

Call for Contributions

Healthcare narrative (such as clinical notes, discharge letters, nurse handover notes, imaging reports, patients posts on social media or feedback comments, etc.) has been used as a key communication stream …