Conference detail

Conference Topics

• Web Intelligence - Web 2.0 and social networks, techniques for harnessing and mining user-generated content, provision of pertinent information to patients, outbreak detection and early warning systems, data collection and analysis for surveillance and epidemiology


• 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


• Healthcare ontologies and knowledge management systems - annotation, health care ontologies, coding standards, communication standards, quality tagging and quality of service, distribution issues, coding systems and ontology mapping, search, user customisation, alert agents


• E-learning, educational 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, user attitudes towards the knowledge, studies of changes of user attitude with respect to digital libraries


• Web 2.0 in healthcare, wellbeing and online communities of practice - community of practice, Web 2.0, user support groups, blogs, personalisation and profiling, online support for healthy lifestyle, wellbeing and public interventions


• Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks - Performance evaluation methodologies, virtualized models for evidence based medicine, patient/process flow models, sensor technologies and RFID tagging, mobile healthcare technologies, asset management systems, application to evidence based medicine, industrial practice and experience