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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Third International Workshop on e-Healthcare
Information Security
(e-HISec 2011)
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To be Hosted in conjuction with
The International Conference on Information Society
(i-Society 2011)
June 27-29, 2011, London, UK
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Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2011
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In 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 Electronic Healthcare
Records (EHRs) by 2014. The move towards e-health
care 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 increases. Major security issues
include patient privacy, trust, and
quality-assurance. Security concerns are affecting the
adoption
rate and usage of e-healthcare information 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.
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 security of e-health
care information. We expect the work 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.
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, therefore,
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.
TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
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* Electronic Patient Records
* Federated Electronic Health Records
* Privacy concerns in e-healthcare information
systems
* Privacy enhancing technologies in healthcare
* Security in e-healthcare information systems
* Trust concerns in e-healthcare information systems
* Models for Privacy and Trust
* Security and privacy standards for 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
* Tools and techniques for designing, developing,
implementing and evaluating e-healthcare
information systems
* Challenges in building secure e-healthcare
information systems
* Interoperability issues in e-healthcare
* Business intelligence in healthcare
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission Date: April 15, 2011
Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: April
30, 2011
Camera Ready Submission Due: May 15, 2011
Conference Dates: June 27-29, 2011
SUBMISSION DETAILS
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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
Participants will be selected based on their
submissions; a selection of papers will be presented
at the workshop. Proceedings of all i-Society 2011
workshops are to be published and will be
distributed at the i-Society 2011 conference in
London.
Paper must be submitted electronically to
Zanifa.Omary@dit.ie. All papers will be fully refereed
by at least two referees and before final acceptance
all referees comments must be considered. The
Authors of accepted papers will be expected to
present their work at the workshop. All attendees
must register for the i-Society 2011 conference.
WORKSHOP COMMITTEES
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Program Co-Chairs
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Fredrick Mtenzi, Dublin Institute of Technology,
Ireland
Kudakwashe Dube, Massey University, New Zealand
Program Committee
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Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University,
Canada
Ion Tutanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania
Rose Tinabo, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Maaruf Ali, Oxford Brookes University, United
Kingdom
Emmanuel Mkusa, Namibia University, Namibia
Said Jafari, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
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
ENQUIRIES
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Dr. Fredrick Japhet Mtenzi