This workshop will bring together researchers and industry participants who are involved either in the design, development, and implementation of novel secure e-Healthcare Information Systems or in the research that addresses the key questions in the enhancement of privacy and securing of e-Healthcare information. We expect the works to be presented in this workshop to address security and privacy problems and solutions that can be used in distributed and heterogeneous computer systems as well as in mobile devices, which will characterise the emerging e-Healthcare environment.
In the recent years substantial budgets have been and are being committed towards e-Healthcare. For example, as part of the stimulus package the Obama administration is going to spend 19 Billion dollars in Healthcare. A significant part of this budget will be spent on making sure that all Americans have e-Healthcare records by 2014. The move towards e-Healthcare is envisaged to reduce the cost of provision of healthcare, improve quality of care and reduce medical errors. Despite all these advantages the security concerns are real and going to increase as the rate we digitise information and use the web. Major security issues include patient privacy, trust, and quality-assurance. Security concerns are affecting the adoption rate and usage of these e-Healthcare systems. Unless deliberate efforts are taken to secure these systems from design to implementation most of the development achieved to date may not be realised and rolled out to the real world.
The security and privacy issues in e-Healthcare Information Systems that are covered in this workshop are also becoming important now in digital information management in general. These issues will also have significant effect in other emerging application areas such as cloud computing.
We welcome original, high-quality research contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the design, development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of secure e-Healthcare Information Systems.
Format and Duration
The workshop will be one day and participants will present their papers during that day. At the end of the workshop a panel session will be held to sum up the major findings and contributions of the workshop.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
- Security in e-Healthcare Information Systems
- Privacy concerns in e-Healthcare Information Systems.
- Trust concerns in e-Healthcare Information Systems.
- Design principles of secure context-aware e-Healthcare Information Systems.
- How security addresses the legal and ethical issues in emerging e-Healthcare Information Systems?
- Frameworks for evaluation of e-Healthcare Systems
- Security and privacy standards for e-Healthcare Information Systems
- Tools and techniques for designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating e-Healthcare Information Systems.
- Challenges in building secure e-Healthcare Information Systems.
- Impact and incorporation of legal aspects in security and privacy of e-Healthcare Information systems
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: March 10, 2010
Notification of Paper acceptance: March 15, 2010
Camera-ready paper submission: March 31, 2010
Submission details
We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. All are invited to submit papers limited to 6 pages in the format provided at the conference web page http://www.i-society.eu/Paper_Submission.html, describing original work or a position paper. Participants will be selected based on their submissions; a selection of papers will be presented at the workshop. Proceedings of all I-Society 2010 workshops are to be published and will be distributed at the I-Society 2010 conference in London.
Paper must be submitted electronically to Fredrick.Mtenzi@dit.ie. All papers will be fully refereed by at
least two referees and before final acceptance all referees comments must be considered. The required
formats of the paper are available on the conference website, http://www.i-society.eu/
Authors of accepted papers will be expected to present their work at the workshop. All attendees must register for the I-Society 2010 conference.
Program Co-Chairs
Fredrick Mtenzi, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Kudakwashe Dube, Massey University, New Zealand
Program Committee
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Ion Tutanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania
Maaruf Ali, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Emmanuel Mkusa, Namibia University, Namibia
Tom Dowling, Claude Shannon Institute, Ireland
Ali Al-Dahoud, Al-Zaytoonah University, Jordan
Juanita Fernando, Monash University, Australia
George S. Oreku, Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organisation, Tanzania
Zanifa Omary, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Rose Tinabo, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Said Jafari, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
