eHealth 2009: 2nd International Conference on electronic healthcare Patients or Users - who are we developing services for? http://www.electronic-health.org/ 23rd-25th September 2009 - Istanbul, Turkey CONFERENCE AIMS Building on a very successful eHealth 2008 conference, the aim of eHealth 2009 is to bring together experts from academia, industry and global healthcare institutions to stimulate cutting- edge research discussions and share experience with real-world healthcare service providers and policy makers as well as provide numerous business opportunities. Despite substantial budgets spent on eHealth in recent years, existing healthcare services do not sufficiently address the issue of patient privacy, trust, or quality-assurance, nor the potential in e-learning and web mining for delivering 21st-century healthcare systems for European citizens. The key topic of eHealth 2009 is investigating a realistic potential of the Internet in providing evidence-based medical advice and quality-assured education for patients to improve the wellbeing of European and global citizens. CONFERENCE TOPICS 1. Privacy, Trust and Security - electronic patient records, models for trust and privacy, novel mobile encryption technologies, identity federation, role based access control, privacy enhancing technologies. 2. Epidemiology and Early Warning Systems and Outbreak Detection - information and IT support systems for early warning and outbreak detection programs, data management issues, data collection and analysis for surveillance and epidemiology. 3. Healthcare Ontologies and Knowledge Management Systems - annotation, health care ontologies, coding standards, communication standards, quality tagging and quality of service, distribution issues, coding systems and ontologies mapping, search, user customisation, alert agents. 4. E-learning, Educational Games and the Impact of Information Delivery to Patients and Professionals - using Digital Libraries in building online communities, moderated discussion groups, qualitative and quantitative evaluation studies, user attitude towards the knowledge, studies of changes of user attitude with respect to digital libraries. 5. Web 2.0 in Healthcare, Wellbeing and Online Communities Of Practice - Community of practice, Web 2.0, user support groups, blogs, online support for healthy lifestyles, wellbeing and public interventions. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Harald Korb, CMO, Vitaphone GmbH Erik van der Goot, European Commission - Joint Research Centre INVITED SPEAKERS Ebru Ba?ak Aköz, National ICT Expert, EU Framework Programmes Leonora Brooke, Application Architect, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Glenn Kenneth Bruun, Chief Innovation Officer, CSAM Health Luis Falcón, Founder and CEO of Thymbra Frederic Lievens, International Coordinator, Med-e-Tel Corinne Marsolier, Director, Healthcare Solutions, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Europe Johan Muskens, Research Scientist, Healthcare Systems Architecture, Philips Research Europe CONFERENCE SESSIONS - Keynote Talks - Academic Paper Sessions - Industrial Paper Sessions - Research Projects and Industrial Products Demos - Industrial and SME/Start-Up Companies Exhibitions - PhD Students Session - Poster Sessions - Panel Discussions COMMITTEES General and Scientific Chair: Patty Kostkova, City eHealth Research Centre, City University, London, UK Programme Co-Chair: Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Mobile Networks Research Centre, City University, London, UK Local Chair: Asli Uyar, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Industry Chairs Knowledge Transfer Co-chair: Steve Bunting, City University, London, UK Industry Co-Chair: Simon Thompson, BT Poster and PhD Students Session Chair: Jason Bonander, Associate Director, Health Informatics Strategy, CDC, Atlanta Web Site Editor: Helen Oliver, City University, London, UK Information Venue: Best Western, The President Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey Publications: Springer Verlag (LNCS) Important Dates Industry and Healthcare Organizations Paper Submission Date: (was 1st May 2009) DEADLINE EXTENSION: 10TH JULY 2009 Paper Submission Date: (was 1st May 2009) DEADLINE EXTENSION: 17TH MAY 2009 Poster Submission Date: (was 1st July 2009) DEADLINE EXTENSION: 10TH JULY 2009 Notification Date: (was 1st June 2009) DEADLINE EXTENSION: 25TH JUNE 2009 Camera Ready Date: (was 1st July 2009) DEADLINE EXTENSION: 17TH JULY 2009 Conference Date: 23rd-25th September 2009 Sponsors City University, London, UK ICST ACM (pending)