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eHealth 2010


3rd International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century


13-15 December 2010 - Casablanca, Morocco
http://electronic-health.org/

Sponsored by ICST
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET, City University London

Conference Aims:

Building on the very successful 2nd edition of the eHealth conference series held in Istanbul in September 2009, the aim of eHealth 2010 is to bring together experts from academia, industry and global healthcare institutions such as WHO and ECDC to stimulate cutting-edge research discussions, share experience with real-world healthcare service providers and policy makers as well as provide numerous business opportunities.

Swine flu epidemics in 2009 demonstrated a breakthrough in the use of web intelligence harnessing and mining user-generated content in social networks and Web 2.0 tools for rapid healthcare information dissemination and outbreak detection. In addition, despite substantial budgets spent on eHealth in recent years, existing healthcare services do not sufficiently address the issue of patient privacy, trust nor the potential in e-learning and web mining for delivering 21st-century healthcare systems for European citizens. The key topic of eHealth 2010 will be investigating a realistic potential of Web 2.0 and Web Intelligence in providing evidence-based healthcare information, assist in outbreak detection and control and provide quality-assured and effective interventions for patients and global users.



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Workshop: Personalisation for eHealth - 13th December 2010

Electronic Health 2010 will be collocated with the 5th International Workshop on Personalisation for eHealth (Pers4eHealth2010). The past years have witnessed unprecedented levels of investment in the eHealth sector, both in terms of research effort, and in terms of funding, as well as a great public interest. EHealth can be broadly defined as the application of IT (especially internet technologies) to improve the access, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of any processes (clinical and business alike) related to health care. In the eHealth vision, intelligent systems would, for example, enable: (i) citizens to take more control of their well-being, by accessing personalised and qualified health information, both medical and pedagogical, and accessing appropriate medical care from their homes; (ii) health professionals to manage their activity more efficiently, by receiving relevant and timely updates; and (iii) teams of health professionals to work together more effectively, coordinating their activities, sharing their knowledge about the patients they are collectively taking care of, and ensuring the best coordinated care is provided. The workshop will focus on the many aspects of personalisation for health delivery, related to eHealth environments.



Workshop: Agents Applied in Health Care - 14th December 2010

Multi-agent systems are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. In the last ten years there has been a growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in health care, and it has been argued that the properties of agents fit very well with the usual characteristics of the problems found in health care. The first specialised workshop on this area was held at Autonomous Agents '2000; several other workshops have followed since then, including three ECAI workshops in 2002, 2004 and 2006. Moreover, a growing European community of researchers interested in the application of intelligent agents in health care emerged as a result of the activities within the AgentCities European project and the AgentLink III Technical Forum Group on Healthcare Applications of Intelligent Agents. The field is now starting to have some academic maturity, and it may now be a good time for the specialists in the field to meet and report on the results achieved in this area, to discuss the benefits (and drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains, and also to provide a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near future to make the deployment of health-care agent-based systems a reality. This one-day workshop will incorporate two novel aspects with respect to related workshops held in the last years: (i) Special efforts will be devoted to try to attract the attention of health care specialists, so that they attend the workshop and realise the potential benefits of agent technology (a medical doctor is part of the organising committee); (ii) The organising committee will also pay special attention to papers describing applications which are not just academic, but are already deployed, certified and running in a real medical environment. Patient-centred applications are welcome.



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General Co-Chair

Knowledge Transfer Chair

Industry Chair

Clinical Chair

Panel Chair

EU Public Health Chair

Poster Chair

Demo Chair

Local Chair

Conference Coordinator


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