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News
MCETECH Workshop on eHealth Interoperability
Our group has organized a workshop on eHealth interoperability at MCETECH 2009 in Ottawa, May 4-6 2009. The best papers were published in a special issue of the open access journal JETWI.
2nd Intl. Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care @ ICSE 2010, 3-4 May, Cape Town
Next year's flagship conference on Software Engineering will host the second Intl. Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care (SEHC 10)- a continuation of this year's SEHC and the ICSE 2009 special track on Health Care. The Web site and call for papers for this event have just been published. For the first time, ICSE will be in Africa (Cape Town). The eHealth Interop Group is involved in organizing SEHC. We hope to see you in Cape Town!
Special Issue on eHealth Interoperability
A special issue of the Journal on Emerging Technologies on Web Intelligence (JETWI) has been published on eHealth Interoperability. The issue contains extended versions of the best papers of the 2009 MCETECH Workshop papers on eHealth Interoperability and was co-edited by Drs. Kuziemsky, Archer and Peyton.
JETWI is an open content journal. You can download the papers free of charge.
eHealth interoperability and Smart Interactions Workshop @ CASCON 2009
Five of us have just organized a highly interactive and successful workshop at CASCON 2009. Thanks to everyone who participated in this event with presentations, questions and lively discussions. Thanks to IBM for sponsoring the event.
Here is an overview of the program of this event:
1:00 - 1:10 Introductions and Objectives
Chair/Presenter: Craig Kuziemsky
1:10 - 2:00 Session I: Interoperability and Standards
Session Chair: Jens Weber-Jahnke
Presenter: Dr. Liam Peyton, University of Ottawa
1:30 Development and Adoption of Standards by the Healthcare Community
Presenter: Dr. Norm Archer, McMaster University
2:00 - 3:00 Session II: Smart Interactions
Session Chair: Norm Archer
2:00 Smart Service Interactions for Home-based Palliative CarePresenter: Dr. Craig Kuziemsky, University of Ottawa and Jens H. Weber-Jahnke, University of Victoria
2:20 Legal Aspects and Policy Management for eHealth
Presenter: James Williams, LLB, Ontario Telemedicine Network / University of Victoria.
2:40 Healthcare Record Interoperability in the Context of Collaborative Learning
Presenter: Dr. Sabah Mohammed and Dr. Jinan Fiaidhi, Lakehead University
3:30 - 4:15 Panel: Is eHealth Interoperability a "wicked problem" or an achievable goal?
Session Chair: Liam Peyton
Panelists: James Williams, Sabah Mohammed, Jens Weber-Jahnke, Thodoros Topaloglou