SEHC 2014 - Sixth Software Engineering in Healthcare (SEHC) Workshop

For 2014, we will hold a joint event of the Fourth Symposium on Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems (FHIES) and the Software Engineering in Healthcare (SEHC) workshop, which has been collocated with ICSE for the last five years. The goal of FHIES/SEHC '14 is to discuss recent research innovations and to closer integrate an interdisciplinary community to develop a research, educational and industrial agenda for the application of software engineering in the healthcare sector.
The ability to deliver timely, effective and cost efficient healthcare services remains one of the world's foremost challenges. The challenge has numerous dimensions including: (a) the need to develop a highly functional yet secure electronic health record system that integrates a multitude of incompatible existing systems; (b) in-home patient support systems and telemedicine to reduce demand on professional health-care facilities; (c) innovative technical devices such as advanced pacemakers that support other healthcare procedures; and (d) the specific constraints for health care imposed in different societies, particularly developing countries. Responding to this challenge will substantially increase the usage of software-intensive systems in all aspects of healthcare services. However the digitization of healthcare results in extensive changes related to the development, use, evolution, and integration of health software, especially with respect to the volume, dependability, safety and security of these software-dependent systems.