Workshop overview and aims

The first British Computer Society (BCS) Health in Wales/ehi2 joint workshop will be a full-day event, held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA’11).

The workshop’s primary aims are:

• to bring together professionals, policy makers, and academics to further the development of BCS Health in Wales, which is the new Welsh regional specialist group of BCS Health, and
• to disseminate the ongoing work of ehi2, the eHealth Industries Innovation Centre.

BCS Health in Wales has the following objectives:

• to represent Wales Health Informatics Community (WHIC) on national and international groups to promote and influence health informatics.
• to act as a consultation mechanism for relevant national and international projects and standards on health informatics.
• to share good practice across WHIC and emanating from WHIC to the wider health community, other agencies and organisations.
• to establish links with research, academic, educational, government, industry, charities, patient and community groups.
• to initiate health informatics projects with appropriate partners.
• to provide a Welsh health informatics perspective within the Welsh Assembly and UK government initiatives.
• to support WHIC to promote health informatics at national and international conferences.
• to support the BCS Charitable objectives.

The eHealth Industries Innovation (ehi2) Centre is a business-facing centre for the ehealth industries, supporting the development of the ehealth sector in Wales. It was launched in December 2010.

ehi2 Centre works with companies in creating new, innovative ehealth products and services with global market potential. It provides businesses with opportunities to test, adapt, improve and evaluate ehealth products and services in a safe and reliable environment to maximise their competitive advantage. It advises and assists companies and where needed, facilitates access to clinicians, academic experts, NHS organisations, and national NHS IT and ICT programmes. It works with the NHS and other health systems to identify needs for new products and services.

Workshop format

The workshop will comprise:

• a general meeting to plan the future of BCS Health in Wales and its relationship with other organizations such as ehi2, the NHS, academia, and the health informatics industry
• a paper session, where participants will have the opportunity to present and/or demonstrate their health informatics work

The scope of the paper session is broad and covers all aspects of health technology ranging from technical hardware and software solutions to applications, and the wider issues arising from them. We encourage submissions from both academic and commercial organizations. Accepted papers will be published as an annex to the main ITA’11 proceedings.

Call for papers

Position papers (maximum 2 pages) are now invited for submission and should be e-mailed to Nigel Houlden. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Health informatics
Telemedicine
Assisted living
Computerised tomography
Accessibility and usability
Collaborative decisions
Data-mining
Distributed systems
e-Learning/e-Society
Ethical, social and legal issues
HCI
Integration
Internet technologies
Multimedia
Protocols and standards
Scheduling
Security
Semantics
Services
Visualisation
XML

Cost

The cost of the workshop is £80.00, payable via the ITA’11 registration system. Delegates who register for the full ITA conference will be eligible to attend the workshop for free.

Important dates

Submission deadline: Friday 27th May 2011
Notification to authors: Friday 10th June 2011

Programme Committee

Dr. Rich Picking – Workshop Chair, BCS Health in Wales Chair; Programme Chair ITA’11
Nigel Houlden – Glyndwr University, BCS Health in Wales Secretary
David Ford – Director ehi2, Swansea University
Dr Tatiana Tatarinova – University of Glamorgan
Denise Oram – Glyndwr University, BCS Ethics Committee
Andrew Griffiths – Director of NHS Informatics Services, NHS Wales Informatics Service
Maynard Davies – Service Management Development Manager, NHS Wales Informatics Service
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