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.
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.
The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
- Knowledge and EHR management in Ubiquitous Healthcare
- Healthcare knowledge acquisition, representation and visualisation
- Healthcare knowledge modelling, healthcare ontologies, "lightweight" medical ontologies
- Use-based ontology segmentation
- EHR storage and semantic annotation
- Digitising clinical guidelines
- Knowledge sharing in healthcare organisations
- Data interoperability and integration
- Multimedia and Ubiquitous Healthcare
- Medical image/vedio clip annotation
- Medical data retrieval
- Healthcare services
- Workflow modelling in ubiquitous healthcare settings
- Healthcare interventions modelling
- Modelling decision making strategies
- Device and functionality discovery and composition
- Context modelling and context ontologies
- Security, Dependability and Trust in Ubiquitous Healthcare
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.
Important dates
Paper submission: 5 August 2007
Acceptance notification: 8 September 2007
Camera-ready papers: 22 September 2007
Workshop: 12 November 2007
For further information, please visit:
http://fountain.ecs.soton.ac.uk/semUbiCare/