--------------------------------------------------------------------- ** DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15th June 2010 ** ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ** --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 3rd International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century 13-15 December 2010 - Casablanca, Morocco http://www.electronic-health.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Topics: --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web Intelligence - Web 2.0 and social networks, techniques for harnessing and mining user-generated content, provision of pertinent information to patients, outbreak detection and early warning systems, data collection and analysis for surveillance and epidemiology. * 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 * 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 ontology mapping, search, user customisation, alert agents * 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 attitudes towards the knowledge, studies of changes of user attitude with respect to digital libraries * Web 2.0 in healthcare, wellbeing and online communities of practice - community of practice, Web 2.0, user support groups, blogs, personalisation and profiling, online support for healthy lifestyle, wellbeing and public interventions * Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks - performance evaluation methodologies, virtualized models for evidence based medicine, patient/process flow models, sensor technologies and RFID tagging, mobile healthcare technologies, asset management systems, application to evidence based medicine, industrial practice and experience --------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop: Personalisation for eHealth --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Health 2010 will be collcated with the 6th International Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC2010) * 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Main Track * Submission Deadline *EXTENDED* 15th June 2010 * Notification of Acceptance: 2nd August 2010 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 20th September 2010 Posters, Demos, and Workshops * Submission Deadline: 20th September 2010 * Notification of Acceptance: 18th October 2010 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 15th November 2010 Conference * Personalisation Workshop: 13th December 2010 * Main Track: 13th - 15th December 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Publications: --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Springer Verlag (LNICST) - Main track and Workshop Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submissions via the EasyChair conference system. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eh2010 * Standard Papers: 8 Pages LNICST Format * Short Papers: 4 Pages LNICST Format * Posters and Demos: 2 Pages LNICST Format --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors: --------------------------------------------------------------------- * ICST, CREATE-NET, City University London, Springer --------------------------------------------------------------------- Committees: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Committee * Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy (chair) * Patty Kostkova, City eHealth Research Centre, City University London, UK (co-chair) * Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Mobile Networks Research Centre, City University London, UK (co-chair) Organizing Committee General Co-Chair * Harini Kulatunga, Logica Healthcare Consulting, UK * Martin Szomszor, City eHealth Research Centre, City University London, UK Knowledge Transfer Chair * Steve Bunting, City University London, UK Industry Chair * Kevin Dean, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems Inc. Clinical Chair * Femida Gwadry-Sridhar , The Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Canada Panel Chair * Jason Bonander, Associate Director, Health Informatics Strategy, CDC, Atlanta, USA EU Public Health Chair * Laszlo Balkanyi, ECDC, Stockholm, Sweeden Poster Chair * Ed de Quincey, University of Greenwich, UK Demo Chair * Gayo Diallo, Universite Bordeaux 2, France Conference Coordinator * Gergely Nagy, ICST Program Committee Malina Jordanova Frederic Lievens Corinne Marsolier Harald Korb Panos Liatsis Anne Adams Dimitra Alexopoulou Oliver Amft Elske Ammenwerth Bill Andreopoulos László Balkányi Ayşe Bener Olivier Bodenreider Steve Bunting Albert Burger Albert Burger Juan Chia Vitorria Colizza Olivier Corby Ulises Cortés Gayo Diallo Charles Doarn Jonathan Elford Floriana Grasso Femida Gwadry-Sridhar David Hansen Alexander Hoerbst Jesse Hoey Gawesh Jawaheer Simon Jupp Visakan Kadirkamanathan Khaled Khelif Harini Kulatunga Panayiotis Kyriacou Shirley Large Lisa Lazareck Cecil Lynch Julie Maitland Maria Martini Kenneth McLeod Henning Muller Chris Nugent Venet Osmani Daniela Paolotti Rob Procter Muttukrishna Rajarajan Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann Blaine Reeder David Riaño Mike Santer Heiko Schuldt Tacha Serif Adel Taweel Alexey Tsymbal Aslı Uyar Özkaya Jan Vejvalka Dasun Weerasinghe Peter Weller Yeliz Yesilada Jana Zvarova Ed de Quincey Patty Kostkova Gergely Nagy