ESMMH 2016 - 1st International workshop on Evolution of Social Media in Mobile Healthcare

The increasing utility of social media is a continuous improvisation to take the benefits of information sharing and connectivity among individuals. The utility further improves when social media is used in the areas like healthcare applications where socially integrated healthcare applications are getting familiarity. The integration of the healthcare application with social media provide ease of use, robustness, efficiency, reliability, resilience, and adaptability to the healthcare applications. Socially integrated mobile healthcare applications use wireless sensors to gather patient data, however this setup orients some vulnerabilities which can be categorized as: privacy, security and legal issues, and active and passive attacks. The attackers can cause much harm to the process by malicious attempts such as data modification, impersonation, eavesdropping and replaying. The primary purpose of these attacks is to steal the patient’s data, which is not only valuable but also private and sensitive. In some cases, implanted devices are used to administer drugs (such as insulin), and attacks could lead to serious outcomes for the patient if the administration of drugs is compromised. If the security issues with the healthcare applications are not resolved in a timely fashion, the impact may be catastrophic and may also cause the rise of socio-technical problems.
This workshop proposal is focused to identify the advancements, gains, threats and weaknesses in socially integrated healthcare applications. Original contributions are sought in the following areas. The areas of interest include but not limited the following:
Advancements in social integration of mobile healthcare applications
Mobile decision support systems
Vulnerabilities of socially integrated healthcare applications
Security and privacy challenges in mobile information systems
Healthcare application architecture in cloud environment
Efficient data management for mobile healthcare management
Healthcare application and social integration architecture in multi-cloud environment
Application architecture for smart health
Communication architecture for mobile healthcare applications
Healthcare application design challenges across multi-platform social integration
Security, trust, and privacy in mobile healthcare applications
Energy management issues in mobile healthcare
Intelligent systems for healthcare