Track: Information Technology in Health Care
Minitrack: IT Architectures and Applications in Healthcare
--------------- Environments

We invite papers that address IT applications in healthcare environments, which range from the management, communication and dissemination of data and information across healthcare systems to pervasive healthcare settings and intelligent, programmable spaces of ubiquitous computing healthcare environments.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
Integrated solutions in healthcare
* Heterogeneities, architectures and frameworks in healthcare systems
* Complexities and challenges of sharing data and practices across healthcare systems: implications for electronic patient records and the management of patient information; availability of data from primary and secondary care
* Communicating heath-related data: e-prescriptions, referral and discharge letters; integrated data for multimedia presentations/intercommunications between medical devices and healthcare systems; disseminating data to healthcare professionals and professional caregivers
* Sharing data and information for public health protection: accessibility, transparency and extraction of patient individual and aggregate data across primary care, clinical and public healthcare domains
* Healthcare COTS, freeware, shareware and OSS products' identification, selection and their use in healthcare systems

Pervasive healthcare applications
* Pervasive healthcare applications: integrating devices in ubiquitous healthcare environments, service oriented software solutions across heterogeneous healthcare systems; context and preference modelling
* Intelligent healthcare systems: ontologies for knowledge and data sharing in healthcare; programmable pervasive spaces in healthcare; personalisation and context awareness in intelligent healthcare environments
* Examples of applications of pervasive healthcare: from supporting cognitive behavioural therapies and education of patients with special needs to remote and continuous patient physiological and psychological monitoring
* Information and knowledge management in pervasive healthcare settings: from mobile and context aware communications, to scheduling, awareness and co-ordination systems and their impact on patient healthcare records

Organisational and management mechanisms
* Accessing and sharing heterogeneous healthcare repositories or databases for performance management and clinical governance
* Sharing databases for simulation modelling, data mining, performance analysis and decision-making in healthcare

Co-chairs:
Radmila Juric (Primary Contact)
Department of IS and ComputingSchool of Informatics
University of Westminster
115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW, UK
Phone: +44-20-7911- 5000 x 3591
Fax: +44-20-7911-5089
Email: juricr@wmin.ac.uk

Jasna Kuljis
School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics
Brunel University, West London
Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK
Phone: +44-18-9526-6015
Fax: +44-18-9525-1686
Email: Jasna.Kuljis@brunel.ac.uk

Patricia Oberndorf
Dynamic Systems
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Melon
4500 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2612, USA
Phone: +1-412-268-6138
Fax: +1-412-268-5758
Email: po@sei.cmu.edu