AAAI 1996 Spring Symposium: Title: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Applications of Current Technologies Short description: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) researchers have developed several technologies over the course of the past three decades. Many of these technologies were considerably ahead of their time and were not successfully exploited. The electronic information delivery and additional automation that they required has only recently begun to be implemented on a large scale. In the perspective of these recent developments does the earlier AIM technology have greater relevance or utility? What further capabilites do current advances in AIM research provide? In addition to addressing these questions, participants in the symposium will also be asked to present state-of-the-art AIM systems and how they contribute to the various tasks of modern health care delivery including: practice guideline development and execution, quality assurance, knowledge-discovery, and automated control. On-line clinical data sets will be made available, on demand, to interested participants. Submission process Potential participants are invited to submit abstracts no longer than 2 pages (< 1200 words) by October 31, 1995. The abstracts should outline methodology and emphasize how the methodology has been applied. The abstracts may be sent in ASCII or RTF formats to <aim-96@medg.lcs.mit.edu>. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a working paper by January 19, 1996. They will also be asked to prepare either a poster or an oral presentation. Submissions will ONLY be accepted in electronic format. Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD Co-chair, AIM-96 Children's Hospital Informatics Program, 300 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A. Phone: [+1] (617) 355-7333 Fax: [+1] (617) 730-0456 Calendar Abstracts due: October 31, 1995 Notification of authors by: November 30, 1995 Working papers due: January 19, 1996 Spring Symposium: March 25-27, 1996 Information For further information, please contact the organizing committee at the address above or (preferably) via e-mail at: <aim-96@medg.lcs.mit.edu>. Up to date information regarding the symposium can be found on the Web at http://www.medg.lcs.mit.edu/ Organizing Committee: Progam Committee Isaac Kohane, MD PhD (Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School) Ramesh Patil, PhD (ISI) Yuval Shahar, MD, PhD (Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford Medical School) Peter Szolovits, PhD (Clinical Decision Making Group) Serdar Uckun, MD, PhD (Rockwell International)