Motivation
Ubiquitous healthcare refers to an emerging paradigm that is gradually reshaping the old "patient-seeing-doctor" scenario into one in which health services and information (e.g. clinical advices and warning, patient status monitoring and feedback, etc.) become just "one-click" away. At the heart of this envisioned "anywhere and anytime" healthcare is empowering miniature computing devices with the ability to acquire and understand data in a real-time and distributed environment, identify and locate other devices to work together by forming an ad-hoc network, and communicate with end-users in a human friendly fashion. While the advance
in technology has prepared us with essential hardware (e.g. sensors, HCI devices, etc.), we are facing unprecedented challenges that are posed by the vast amount of data and the distributed nature of the new approach towards healthcare.
Aim and Scope
The main focus of this workshop is on providing an overview of existing ubiquitous care platforms and elaborating on how semantic web technologies can impinge on such existing efforts. We would particularly like to invite developers and researchers of undergoing health/medical projects to share with us their experience and lessons learnt. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
* *Knowledge and EHR management in Ubiquitous Healthcare*
o Healthcare knowledge acquisition, representation and visualisation
o Healthcare knowledge modelling, healthcare ontologies,"lightweight" medical ontologies
o Use-based ontology segmentation
o EHR storage and semantic annotation
o Digitising clinical guidelines
o Knowledge sharing in healthcare organisations
o Data interoperability and integration
* *Multimedia and Ubiquitous Healthcare*
o Medical image/vedio clip annotation
o Medical data retrieval
* *Healthcare services*
o Workflow modelling in ubiquitous healthcare settings
o Healthcare interventions modelling
o Modelling decision making strategies
o Device and functionality discovery and composition
o Context modelling and context ontologies
* *Security, Dependability and Trust in Ubiquitous Healthcare*
We are particularly soliciting short papers describing deployed systems in hospitals and clinical centres. Developers and Researchers who want to participate in discussion are strongly encouraged to submit position papers.
Please state clearly in the position paper your expertise, what particular problem you are interested, what solution you are looking for, and why the statement is expected to be relevant to both the workshop and the community
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Programme Committee
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Olivier Bodenreider National Library of Medicine, USA
Srinandan Dasmahapatra University of Southampton, UK
John Fox Oxford University & Cancer Research UK, UK
Horacio Gonzalez-Velez University of Edinburgh, UK
Warner ten Kate Philips Research Lab, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Paul Lewis University of Southampton, UK
Mark Musen Stanford University, USA
David Robertson University of Edinburgh, UK
Daniel L. Rubin National Center for Biomedical Ontology, USA
Nigel Shadbolt University of Southampton, UK
Irma Velazquez EHT, WHO, Switzerland
Takahira Yamaguchi Keio University, Japan
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Important dates
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Paper submission: 5 August 2007
Acceptance notification: 8 September 2007
Camera-ready papers: 22 September 2007
Workshop: 12 November 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Workshop on Semantic Web on Ubiquitous Healthcare*
*A call for papers* has been issued for this Workshop, which takes place on 12 Novermber, 2007, as part of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (11-15 November 2007, Busan, South Korea). Dates for submission of papers and all other details are available on the workshop website: < http://fountain.ecs.soton.ac.uk/semUbiCare/ >
Contact: h.gv@ed.ac.uk
Paper submission and publication
Electronic submissions of technical papers, short system description papers and position papers will be accepted in MS Words, PDF. Selected papers will be invited to submit to a journal special issue. Please visit the main conference submission page for further information.
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Supported by
EU HealthAgents Consortium
MicroArt, Spain
University of Southampton, UK
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