CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 30, 2010
Handbook of Research on Pharmacoinformatics: Technologies, Theories and
Applications
A book edited by Dr. Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid
King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
To be published by IGI Global
This publication is part of the Advances in Knowledge Management (AKM) Book
Series found at http://www.igi-global.com/akm
Introduction
Within the context of integrated health management domains, pharmacoinformatics
aims at maximizing the benefits from the use of information systems and
technologies for the provision of decision support tools necessary for improved drug
management, use and administration practices. Such tools are also used to improve
patients’ knowledge about drugs administration and the consequences of adverse
drug events. Emphasis over years, continued to be made on computer-based
manufacturing applications in the field of drug analysis, testing and production. Little
effort are being directed towards understanding the role of pharmacoinformatics in
improving the efficiency and effectiveness of health authorities, pharmacists and
other medical staff, patients and the community at large to improve pharmaceutical
care. The importance of understanding these dimensions stems from the growing
medical and clinical complexities on the one hand, and the outstanding technological
improvements witnessed in many hospitals in response to the adoption of e-health
paradigms including the use of electronic medical records and integrated hospital
management.
Objective of the Book
This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical
research findings in the area. It will be written for professionals who want to improve
their understanding of the strategic role of pharmacoinformatics in the improvement
of functional processes and improved awareness, attitudes and communication. The
overall objective of the proposed publication is to gather in an integrated pattern
high quality publications providing current, current edge and provocative scientific
work in the abovementioned three domains of pharmacoinformatics: decision
making domains, knowledge utilization and representation environment and the
technological and infrastructural context.
Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers
working in many fields including medicine and health, information and knowledge
management, management, communication sciences, administrative sciences,
education, media, sociology, computer science, and information technology.
Moreover, the book will provide insights and support executives concerned with the
management of expertise, knowledge, information and organizational development
especially in hospital settings and health planning authorities.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Pharmacy management, Reporting Systems & Applications: topics related to the
context of pharmacy management, approaches, systems and applications used for
the identification and classification of medical errors and preventable adverse events
and drug interactions, information exchange among medical staff and with patients,
patients' perception and quality of pharmaceutical care, computerized physician
order entry, web based pharmacoinformatics systems.
Computing paradigms, architectures and standards: topics related to service
oriented architectures, information and knowledge representation and management,
pharmaceutical applications of biological computing, health informatics, bio
informatics, molecular computing, bio-computing & ubiquitous applications,
Pharmacoinformatics infrastructure: topics related to pharmacoinformatics
information infrastructure and high performance systems, business intelligence and
drug safety, peer-to-peer file sharing, semantic webs, artificial neural networks,
intelligent software agents and personal digital assistants, communication mobile
and technologies and handheld drug reference guides, knowledge management,
information retrieval systems and information content optimization techniques,
trans-dimensional Bayesian model and pattern recognition systems, structured
objects and vector machines, automated visualization tools, relative reasoning rules
and biodegradation pathway prediction frameworks.
Databases, information representation & modeling: topics related to databases and
ontologies, cluster analysis and data and text mining, structural variation analysis,
Standardized terminologies and classification schema and the 3D pharmaceutical
structure data bases, systems analysis of adverse drug events, time series analysis,
recognition systems, and risk-management databases, experimental data analysis
and complex structure modeling, sequence logos, statistical analysis & microarray
data analysis and dynamics simulation.
Pharmacovigilance: All aspects.
Education and Capacity building.
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 30, 2010, a 2-3
page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her
proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by August 14, 2010
about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are
expected to be submitted by October 15, 2010. All submitted chapters will be
reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to
serve as reviewers for this project.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.),
publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference),
“Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and
“Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the
publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be
released in 2011.
Important Dates:
July 30, 2010:
August 14, 2010:
October 15, 2010:
November 5, 2010:
February 4, 2010:
March 4, 2010:
Proposal Submission Deadline
Notification of Acceptance
Full Chapter Submission
Review Result Returned
Final Chapter Submission
Final deadline
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail
to:
Dr. Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid
Department of Information Systems
KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY
Tel.: +966540065802 • Fax: +96635887082
E-mail: tgasm@kfu.edu.sa & tagelsir.gasmelseid@gmail.com
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