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eHealth 2009 2nd International ICST Conference on electronic healthcare: Patients or Users - who are we developing services for?

www.electronic-health.org

23-25th September 2009 - Istanbul, Turkey

Sponsored by ICST, Technically co-sponsored by Create-Net ACM (pending)

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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, 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, quality-assurance nor the potential in e-learning and web minding for delivering 21st century healthcare system 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 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, users 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 lifestyle, wellbeing and public interventions.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

• Keynote Talks • Academic Papers 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: Rajarajan Muttukrishnan, Mobile Networks Research Centre, City University, London, UK

Local Chair: TBC

Publicity Chair: David DoHerty, 3G Doctor, Ireland

Industry Chairs Knowledge Transfer Co-chair: Steve Bunting, City University, London, UK Industry Co-Chair: Simon Thompson, BT Poster and PhD Student Session Chair: Jason Bonander, Associate Director, Health Informatics Strategy, CDC, Atlanta Global Healthcare Chair: Anouk Berger, WHO Web Site Editor: David Liang, City University, UK Information Venue: Best Western, The President Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey Publications: Springer Verlag (LNCS)

Important Dates Paper Submission Date:1st May 2009 Notification Date: 1st June 2009 Camera Ready Date: 1st July 2009 Conference Date: 23-25th September 2009

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