Monday 21th November
Chair: Patty Kostkova, City eHealth Research Centre, City University London, UK
0900 - 1030 Dr. Denis Coulombier, Head of Unit, Surveillance and Response Support, ECDC
Chair: Erik van der Goot, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
1100 - 1130 | Invited Speaker: Rossana Alessandrello, Barcelona Digital Centre Technològic |
1130 - 1200 | Social media: A systematic review to understand the evidence and application in infodemiology - Stacey Guy, Alexandria Ratzki-Leewing, Raphael Bahati and Femida Gwadry-Sridhar |
1200 - 1230 | An Examination of the Behaviour of Young and Older Users of Facebook - Darren Quinn, Liming Chen and Maurice Mulvenna |
Chair: Claudio Eccher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
1100 - 1130 | Invited Speaker: Jeremy Nettle, Oracle Corporation "Foundations for The Road Ahead in transforming healthcare" |
1130 - 1200 | An agile methodology for IHE-enabled deployments - Bruno Alves and Michael Schumacher |
1200 - 1230 | Obstetric Medical Record Processing and Information Retrieval - Miroslav Bursa, Lenka Lhotska, Václav Chudácek, Michal Huptych, Jiri Spilka, Petr Janku and Martin Huser |
1400- 1530 Session chair: Jenny Tooth, Angel Capital Group, UK
Challenges and opportunities to attract funding for innovative e-health projects
This session will look at how to succeed in gaining equity finance from Business Angels, VCs and Corporates to support the successful implementation of e-health projects, as well as exploiting European Commission R&D Framework Programmes. Jenny Tooth, Director of Angel Capital Group, will provide detailed background and lead the debate.
Chair: Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK
1600 - 1630 | Invited Speaker: Josette Najjar-Pellet, Fondation Mérieux |
1630 - 1700 | Health Care Performance Monitoring using an Inpatient Reference Process Model - Eva Gattnar, Okan Ekinci and Vesselin Detschew |
1700 - 1730 | A model for a motivational system grounded on value based abstract argumentation frameworks - Eugenio Di Tullio and Floriana Grasso |
1730 - 1745 | An assessment of the potential for personalization in patient decision aids - Oystein Eiring and Laura Slaughter |
Chair: Corinne Marsolier, Director, Healthcare Solutions, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Europe
1600 - 1630 | Invited Speaker: Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation "Mining networks of human contact with wearable sensors" |
1630 - 1700 | An analysis of Twitter messages in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake - Son Doan, Bao-Khanh Ho Vo and Nigel Collier |
1700 - 1730 | Web-Based Stress Management System Goes Mobile: Considerations of the Design of a Mobile Phone App - Asa Smedberg and Hélène Sandmark |
1730 - 1745 | Use of SMS for Tsunami Early Warnings at a Table Top Exercise - Vincenzo Lagani, Vasilis Kontogiannis, Panagiotis Argyropaidas and Catherine Chronaki |
1800- 1900 Session chairs: Gawesh Jawaheer, City University London, UK (demos) and Ed de Quincey, University of Greenwich, UK (posters)
1900- 2000 Session chair: Tim Meldrum, City University London, UK
Come to the Speed Networking evening event and begin your eHealth networking in style! A core purpose of the eHealth International Conference 2011 is to bring together medical practitioners, industry delegates and eHealth researchers in a unique forum to explore the cutting edge of eHealth knowledge, technology and practise. This event is designed to accelerate that process on day one. With your drink of choice in hand, see what the cards of fate have dealt you - meet colleagues and new collaborators, share ideas and build new relationships for future innovative projects in eHealth.
Tuesday 22nd November
Chair: Martin Szomszor, City eHealth Research Centre, City University London, UK
0900 - 1030 Prof. S. Yunkap Kwankam, CEO, Global eHealth Consultants
Chair: Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, Lawson Health Research Institute, Canada
1100 - 1115 | Seamless Evaluation of Interactive Digital Storytelling Games: Edugames4All - Patty Kostkova |
1115 - 1145 | Patient-centered care as a learning process - Jan Aidemark |
1145 - 1200 | Wireless computer games and applications in the medical education curriculum: Adventures in pedagogy - Juanita Fernando and Nicolette Peters |
1200 - 1230 | Invited Speaker: Anouk Berger, World Health Organisation "Perspectives on e-learning for health professionals" |
Chair: Marcel Winandy, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
1100 - 1130 | The Process of Policy Authoring for Patient-controlled Privacy Preferences - Thomas Trojer, Basel Katt, Thomas Schabetsberger and Ruth Breu |
1130 - 1145 | Modelling a User Authorisation and Data Privacy Framework for Multi-Specialty Research Systems in Secondary Health Care - Ire Ogunsina, Sarah Lim Choi Keung, Lei Zhao, Gavin Langford, Edward Tyler and Theodoros Arvanitis |
1145 - 1200 | Software Engineering-Inspired Approach to Prevention Healthcare - Victor Rentea, Andrei Vasilateanu, Radu Ioanitescu and Luca Dan Serbanati |
Chair: Rob Procter, University of Manchester, UK
1400 - 1430 | Invited Speaker: Alberto Tozzi, Bambino Gesu Hospital, Rome, Italy "Promoting participation in a web study on preconceptional counselling: strategies and tools" |
1430 - 1500 | Evaluation of a web-based patient portal for chronic disease management - Stacey Guy, Alexandria Ratzki-Leewing and Femida Gwadry-Sridhar |
1500 - 1530 | Cardio Online Reader/COR: A Web 2.0-based tool aimed at clinical decision-making support in cardiology - Vendula Papikova and Miroslav Zvolsky |
Chair: Toni Moreno, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
1400 - 1430 | Invited Speaker: Johan Muskens, Philips Research Europe "Reducing readmission rates: Supporting the patient from Hospital to Home" |
1430 - 1500 | An Agent Based Pervasive Healthcare System: a First Scalability Study - Johannes Krampf, Stefano Bromuri, Michael Schumacher and Juan Ruiz |
1500 - 1530 | An Agent-Based Approach to Real-Time Patient Identification for Clinical Trials - Gareth Tyson, Adel Taweel, Simon Miles, Michael Luck, Tjeerd Van Staa and Brendan Delaney |
Chair: Johan Muskens, Philips Research Europe
1600 - 1630 | Invited Speaker: Caroline Crousillat, Orange Healthcare "Mobile health : what reality from Orange Healthcare" |
1630 - 1700 | The use of Social Bookmarking by Health Care Students to create Communities of Practice - Ed De Quincey, Avril Hocking, Josephine O'Gorman, Simon Walker and Liz Bacon |
1700 - 1715 | Engagement in Online Medical Communities of Practice in Healthcare: Analysis of Messages and Social Networks - David Fowler, Martin Szomszor, Simon Hammond, John Lawrenson and Patty Kostkova |
1715 - 1730 | Towards Delivering Disease Support Processes for Patient Empowerment Using Mobile Virtual Communities - Bert-Jan Van Beijnum, Pravin Pawar, Lamia Elloumi and Hermie Hermens |
Chair: Alberto Tozzi, Bambino Gesu Hospital, Preventive and predictive medicine, Rome, Italy
1600 - 1630 | Invited Speaker: Frederic Lievens, Med-e-Tel & ISfTeH Global Telemedicine and eHealth Developments and Initiatives |
1630 - 1700 | E-HEALTH READINESS ASSESSMENT FOR E-HEALTH FRAMEWORK FOR AFRICA: A case study of hospitals in South Africa - Alfred Coleman, Marlien Herselman and Dalenca Potass |
1700 - 1730 | The Physical Activity Loyalty Card Scheme: Development and Application of a Novel System for Incentivizing Behaviour Change - Ruth Hunter, Michael Davis, Mark Tully and Frank Kee |
Wednesday 23rd November
0900- 1030 Panic or Risk? How can the media and health agencies provide coverage that conveys the seriousness and risks of an outbreak without causing panic?
The debate will be focused on the recent swine flu outbreak. It will include panellist Professor Peter Openshaw (by e-conference) a representative of ECDC and WHO (names to be confirmed) and will be chaired by Scientific Media Chair of the conference Connie St Louis
Chair: Cristina Urdialis, University of Malaga, Spain
1100 - 1130 | Invited Speaker: Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Digital "Mobile Computing for eHealth: Exciting Opportunities Ahead" |
1130 - 1200 | Tracking Media Reports on the Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany - Jens Linge, Jas Mantero, Flavio Fuart, Jenya Belyaeva, Martin Atkinson and Erik Van Der Goot |
1200 - 1230 | Syndromic classification of Twitter messages - Nigel Collier and Son Doan |
Chair: Ed de Quincey, University of Greenwich, UK
1100 - 1130 | Invited Speaker: Corinne Marsolier, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Europe "Communication and Collaboration at the heart of Healthcare Transformation" |
1130 - 1200 | Towards Spatial Description-Based Integration of Biomedical Atlases - Nurzi Zaizi and Albert Burger |






