This workshop welcomes papers that address fundamental research issues for complex medical data environments, data management and analytical methods, systems and applications. A number of invited papers will also be solicited.

 Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Big data integration for medical data;          
• Data cleansing for noisy and missing data;
• Medical data and knowledge management and decision support;
• Data management technologies for medical data;
• Semantic Web and ontologies for clinical and biomedical applications;
• Medical natural language processing and text mining;
• Data mining and knowledge discovery from medical data;
• Algorithms to speed up the analysis of big medical data;
• Innovative visualization techniques to support query and analysis of medical data;
• Medical image mining;
• Medical information retrieval;
• Data privacy and security for healthcare data;
• Hospital readmission analytics;
• Medical fraud detection;
• Social media and Web data analytics for public health;  
• Data analytics for pervasive computing for medical care.