eHealth 2011 - 2011 4th ICST International Conference on eHealth (eHealth)

In its 4th year, the eHealth conference is now a well established international forum with an increasing quality of academic submissions, attended by industrial partners with a business interest in eHealth, and well regarded by international healthcare agencies such as WHO and ECDC.

The specific aim of the upcoming 4th eHealth conference is research into social networks for epidemic intelligence, a new rapidly emerging field bringing together data mining, web intelligence, social networks and Web 2.0 technologies to assist public health and field epidemiology. As in previous years, eHealth 2011 will bring together experts from academia, industry and global healthcare institutions such as WHO and ECDC to stimulate cutting-edge research discussions, share experience with real-world healthcare service providers and policy makers, as well as provide numerous business opportunities.

Accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer Verlag ICST Lecture Notes (LNICST).

Conference Topics

Social Networks for Epidemic Intelligence Web Intelligence, social networks, techniques for harnessing and mining user-generated content, outbreak detection and early warning systems, data collection and analysis for surveillance and epidemiology.
Web 2.0 in healthcare, well-being and online communities of practice - community of practice, Web 2.0, user support groups, blogs, personalisation and profiling, online support for healthy lifestyle, well-being and public interventions, provision of pertinent information to patients.
Healthcare ontologies and knowledge management systems - annotation, health care ontologies, coding standards, personalisation.
E-learning, educational tools and 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.
Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks - performance evaluation methodologies, patient/process flow models, sensor technologies and RFID tagging, mobile healthcare technologies.
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.