2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business

eHealth Theme
eHealth (electronic health) is an emerging field of medical informatics, referring to the organization, management, and delivery of health services and information using computers, devices, and networking technologies.   Topics of interest in this theme include (but are not limited to):

• personal health records
• electronic patient records
• communication protocols for secure transmission of healthcare data
• evidence-based clinical decision support systems
• standards and interoperability of healthcare systems
• classification systems and ontologies
• case management systems
• access and referral systems for healthcare services
• patient monitoring
• digital imaging and image processing
• telehealth technologies to facilitate and support remote diagnosis and treatment
• remote support for the chronically ill
• technological support for healthcare self management
• wireless support for homecare
• wireless support for hospital health practitioners
• public health surveillance and protection
• methodologies and applications for data analysis, management and mining
• clinical information data warehouse, analysis, and reporting
• business, financial, support and logistics systems and services

eHealth Theme Chair
Dr. Norman Archer, McMaster University, Canada
archer@mcmaster.ca

Theme Program Committee

Alex Drossos, McMaster University, Canada
Brian Haynes, McMaster University, Canada
Dave Musson, McMaster University, Canada
Keith Wilson, Healthnet Canada, Canada
Khaled El Amam, University of Ottawa, Canada
Ryszard Janicki, McMaster University, Canada
Christine Marton, University of Toronto, Canada
Andre Kushniruk, University of Victoria, Canada
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia
Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada
Joseph Tan, Wayne State University, USA
Mihail, Cocosila, Athabasca University, Canada

Additional Program Committee members will be announced