International Symposium on Electronic Personal Health Records - [Norway - Sep 2006]

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International Symposium on Electronic Personal Health Records

Call for papers:

ISePHR 2006 - International Symposium on Electronic Personal Health Records

28th of September 2006, Trondheim, Norway

http://events.idi.ntnu.no/isephr2006/

Paper, poster and demo submission deadline 13th of August, 2006

The major goal of this symposium is to bring together users, researchers and developers, both from industry and academia, to study, explore and discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by electronic personal health records. We want to address all aspects of use and introduction of electronic personal health records, ranging from technical implementation, through privacy and juridical issues, to socio-economic implications and of course health care practice and policy.
The symposium will be held in Trondheim, Norway, in conjunction with the national health informatics week www.helsit.no (in Norwegian).

Introduction

Common and widespread Internet access changes the relationship between patients and health care providers, both in areas with well-developed and less developed care systems. The future of efficient healthcare relies on the competent, informed and self-caring patient.

The Personal Health Record is important in order to:

improve health information validity and quality control
increase patient involvement and enable preventive selfcare
ensure patient empowerment, and thus patient satisfaction and wellbeing
enable next-of-kin and caretaker involvement in the care for the elderly and aging population
increase patient security and safety
enable patient and health service mobility and flexibility
ensure continuity where services are few and far apart
ensure cooperation where services are many, but fragmented
enable the future plan- and intention-aware cooperative core medical record

Goals and audience

The major goal of this symposium is to bring together users, researchers and developers, both from industry and academia, to study, explore and discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by electronic personal health records. We want to address all aspects of use and introduction of electronic personal health records, ranging from technical implementation, through privacy and juridical issues, to socio-economic implications and of course health care practice and policy.

An invited talk will be given by William Crawford, Health IT advisor to the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, with the title: "The Personal Health Record in US Healthcare Policy and the role of the Indivo (formerly Ping) project"

Contributions are sought in the form of experience reports, descriptions of solutions, surveys and trials, position papers, evaluations and demonstrations on topics including, but not limited to:

Patient mobility
Patient centered care
Plan based personal health records
Self reporting
Empowering patients to manage and improve their own health
Distributed patient records
Using mobile devices for healthcare information storage, update, and transmission
Therapy planning
Definitions of personal health record
Personal health record vs. health care providers record
Role of personal health records
Data models, information models, knowledge models for personal health records
How it will interact with a fully-functioning interoperable health system
Monitoring of health outside health care facilities
Patient education
Architecture

Submission

Papers should be submitted by email to isephr(at)idi.ntnu.no
Paper submissions should be a maximum of 10 pages in LNCS camera ready style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). (including figures and references). Full papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.

Poster submissions should be a maximum of 5 pages (including figures and references). Poster papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.

Software demonstration proposals should be a maximum of 2 pages describing the contents of the demonstration. Demonstration papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.

The papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium as well as on the web. At least one author of each accepted paper, poster, or demonstration must register for the symposium and present the contribution in order to be published in the workshop proceedings.

Important Dates
* Submission of papers and posters: 13th of August, 2006
* Notification: 20th of August, 2006
* Camera ready copies: 1st of September, 2006
* ISePHR symposium: 28th of September, 2006

Venue
The symposium will be held in Trondheim, Norway, in conjunction with the national health informatics week www.helsit.no (in Norwegian).

Registration
Registration will be available shortly through the web-site: http://events.idi.ntnu.no/isephr2006/

Programme committee (preliminary)

Øystein Nytrø, NTNU, NTNU
Anders Kofod-Petersen, NSEP, NTNU
Terje Brasethvik, NSEP, NTNU
Anders Grimsmo, NSEP, NTNU
Per A. Frydenborg, Sunnaas Hospital
Arzu Baloglu, CSE, Marmara University