eH 2009 - IADIS International Conference e-Health 2009

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 15 April 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-HEALTH 2009
Algarve, Portugal, 21 to 23 June 2009
(http://www.ehealth-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2009)
Algarve, Portugal, 17 to 23 June 2009
(http://www.mccsis.org)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Dr Jennifer Zelmer, Chief Executive Officer, International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, Denmark

* Conference background and goals
The use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in Healthcare Services is the main mechanism to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Nowadays ICTs are being developed to achieve the following objectives:
- To integrate heterogeneous systems;
- To develop frameworks to make all data meaningful, accessible and available everywhere and permanently;
- To develop AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data Collectors) systems;
- To develop intelligent systems to support clinical and management decisions;

The use of these technologies also improves the quality of patient care and reduces clinical risk. At the same time, the patient will be part of the healthcare process, having more information about diseases and access to his/her electronic health record.
The physicians will have more information to deliver a better service and dynamic guidelines to improve quality and reduce risks.
The pharmaceutical industries can get more and more accurate information about drug´s effects and supply chain delivery systems.
Public health authorities can get more accurate information and develop dashboards to make better decisions.
Hospital Management benefits from a more updated meaningful data. This data is used by management systems to delivery KPI (Key Performance Indicators).
This conference aims to draw together information systems, practitioners and management experts from all quadrants involved in developing computer technology to improve healthcare quality.


* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).

* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium.
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.


* Topics related to e-Health are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

A. Research Issues
• Computers and Primary Care
• Clinical Data Visualisation Standards
• e-Health Architectures
• Healthcare Data Architecture and Terminology Standards
• Federated Electronic Health Records
• Personalized Medicine
• Health Informatics and Education
• Human Computer Interaction
• Infrastructure and Architecture
• Internet and Medicine
• Interoperability issues
• IT and Patient Care
• Nursing Informatics
• RFID and localization techniques
• Usability and Ubiquity in e-Health
• e-Health Virtual Communities
• Business Process Management Systems
• Second Life for Healthcare Support and Education

B. Management Issues
• Case Studies
• Management Change
• Confidentiality and Privacy
• e-Health Collaborative Strategies and Techniques
• e-Training
• Healthcare Management Dashboards
• Legal issues
• Balanced scorecards models to improve Hospital Performance and Productivity
• Business Intelligence in Healthcare
• e-Health to improve Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety.
• Healthcare Information Systems Regulatory issues
• Security in e-Health
• Service Models
• Social implications
• Stakeholders involvement


C. Applications
• Clinical Information Systems
• Data Mining and Clinical Studies
• Medical Guidelines
• e-Health Decision Support Systems
• e-Logistics and e-Pharmacy
• Intelligent Medical Systems
• Mobile Applications
• Patient Electronic Health Records
• Healthcare Portals to inform and connect Patients with Physicians
• Patients and Public Health
• Social Networks in Healthcare contexts
• e-Health Marketing
• e-Procurement and e-Commerce
• Telemedicine
• Automatic Identification and Data Collector Systems
• Unified data processing and communication Systems
• Web Based Applications
• e-Health 2.0


* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (2nd call): 15 April 2009
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): 6 May 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call): Until 20 May 2009
- Late Registration (2nd call): After 20 May 2009
- Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 21 to 23 June 2009

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Algarve, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-HEALTH 2009
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat-AT-ehealth-conf.org
Web site: http://www.ehealth-conf.org/

* Program Committee
e-Health 2009 Conference Program Chair
M¨¢rio Macedo, Instituto Polit¨¦cnico de Tomar, Portugal

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isa¨ªas, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.ehealth-conf.org/committees.asp