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The Third International Workshop on e-Healthcare Information Security
(e-HISec 2011)
http://www.comp.dit.ie/ehisec2011
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To be Hosted in conjuction with
The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011)
June 27-29, 2011, London, UK
http://www.i-society.eu
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Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2011

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In recent years substantial budgets have been and are being committed towards e-healthcare.
For example, as part of the stimulus package the Obama administration is going to spend 19
Billion dollars in healthcare. A significant part of this budget will be spent on making sure
that all Americans have Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) by 2014. The move towards e-health
care is envisaged to reduce the cost of provision of healthcare, improve quality of care and
reduce medical errors. Despite all these advantages the security concerns are real and going to
increase as the rate we digitise information and use the web increases. Major security issues
include patient privacy, trust, and quality-assurance. Security concerns are affecting the adoption
rate and usage of e-healthcare information systems. Unless deliberate efforts are taken to secure
these systems from design to implementation most of the development achieved to date may not be
realised and rolled out to the real world.

This workshop will bring together researchers and industry participants who are involved either in
the design, development, and implementation of novel secure e-healthcare Information systems or in
the research that addresses the key questions in the enhancement of privacy and security of e-health
care information. We expect the work to be presented in this workshop to address security and privacy
problems and solutions that can be used in distributed and heterogeneous computer systems as well as
in mobile devices, which will characterise the emerging e-healthcare environment.

The security and privacy issues in e-healthcare Information Systems that are covered in this workshop
are also becoming important now in digital information management in general. These issues will also
have significant effect in other emerging application areas such as cloud computing. We, therefore,
welcome original, high-quality research contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the design,
development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of secure e-healthcare information systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
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* Electronic Patient Records
* Federated Electronic Health Records
* Privacy concerns in e-healthcare information systems
* Privacy enhancing technologies in healthcare
* Security in e-healthcare information systems
* Trust concerns in e-healthcare information systems
* Models for Privacy and Trust
* Security and privacy standards for e-healthcare information systems
* Design principles of secure context-aware e-healthcare information systems
* How security addresses the legal and ethical issues in emerging e-healthcare information
systems
* Frameworks for evaluation of e-healthcare systems
* Tools and techniques for designing, developing, implementing and evaluating e-healthcare
information systems
* Challenges in building secure e-healthcare information systems
* Interoperability issues in e-healthcare
* Business intelligence in healthcare


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission Date: April 15, 2011
Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: April 30, 2011
Camera Ready Submission Due: May 15, 2011
Conference Dates: June 27-29, 2011


SUBMISSION DETAILS
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We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. All are
invited to submit papers limited to 6 pages in the format provided at the conference web page
http://www.i-society.eu/Paper%20Submission.html, describing original work or a position paper.
Participants will be selected based on their submissions; a selection of papers will be presented
at the workshop. Proceedings of all i-Society 2011 workshops are to be published and will be
distributed at the i-Society 2011 conference in London.

Paper must be submitted electronically to Zanifa.Omary@dit.ie. All papers will be fully refereed
by at least two referees and before final acceptance all referees comments must be considered. The
required formats of the paper are available on the conference website, http://www.i-society.eu/

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to present their work at the workshop. All attendees
must register for the i-Society 2011 conference.


WORKSHOP COMMITTEES
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Program Co-Chairs
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Fredrick Mtenzi, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Kudakwashe Dube, Massey University, New Zealand

Program Committee
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Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Ion Tutanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania
Emmanuel Mkusa, Namibia University, Namibia
Tom Dowling, Claude Shannon Institute, Ireland
Ali Al-Dahoud, Al-Zaytoonah University, Jordan
Juanita Fernando, Monash University, Australia
George S. Oreku, Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organisation, Tanzania
Zanifa Omary, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

ENQUIRIES
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Zanifa Omary
Zanifa.Omary@dit.ie