E-health: Towards System Interoperability through Process Integration and Performance Management
A Workshop as part of MCETCH 2009
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 4-6, 2009
Workshop Overview
Healthcare delivery is becoming increasingly complex as it shifts from care provided by a single provider and setting to collaborative care provided by multiple providers across multiple settings. For example patients with chronic illness frequently move between inpatient and outpatient settings and require collaboration by physicians, nurses, therapists, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals that act as an integrated network across hospital and community settings.
The move towards integrated networks and collaborative care delivery is challenging for the fundamental reason that our healthcare system is not designed for it. Healthcare has traditionally been delivered in silos whereas system interoperability is a fundamental underpinning of collaborative care delivery. Achieving system interoperability requires increased focus on issues such as workflow and information management, security and privacy, and data and terminology standards. Two overall challenges to system interoperability are one, the need to integrate healthcare information and processes across different settings and two, the need to evaluate system accountability through performance management. This workshop will present current research on e-health technologies and the role they will play in solving the above challenges and ensuring our healthcare system is adaptable and sustainable in the forthcoming years.
Workshop Format
The workshop will feature research paper presentations in the morning and a panel presentation and discussion in the afternoon. The panel presentation will discuss the topic of low adoption rates of e-health technologies (i.e. electronic health record systems) by healthcare providers and how we can better link the designers and users of e-health technologies. The workshop will conclude with a summation of the e-health interoperability issues and a chance to form collaborative partnerships with the workshop participants.
Organizing Committee
Workshop Schedule
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8:30-9AM |
Registration and breakfast |
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9:00AM |
Introduction |
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9:15-10:00AM |
Keynote address“E-health integration in the front lines of care” Glenn Alexander, Chief Information Office, Champlain Local Health Integrated Network. |
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10:00-10:30AM |
Break |
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10:30-11:30AM |
Paper Session I An E-Business based Framework for E-health Interoperability Craig Kuziemsky (Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa), Jens Weber-Jahnke (Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria)
An Agent-based Knowledge Management Framework for Electronic Health Record Interoperability Fang Cao (McMaster University, Computing and Software), Norm Archer (McMaster University, DeGroote School of Business), Skip Poehlman (McMaster University, Computing and Software)
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11:30AM-12:30PM |
Paper Session II Privacy Based Information Brokering for Cooperative Distributed e-Health Systems AbdulMutalib Masaud-Wahaishi (College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University),Hamada Ghenniwa (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario)
Web-based Interoperability with Medical Terminology Services - A Study of Service Requirements and Maturity Neil Barrett (Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria), Jens Weber-Jahnke (Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria)
Political, policy and social barriers to system interoperability: Emerging opportunities of Web 2.0, Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0 Donald W. M. Juzwishin (Juzwishin Consulting Inc. Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Victoria Health Information Science)
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12:30-2:00PM |
Lunch |
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2:00PM-3:30PM |
Paper Session III Toward Careflow Management Systems Keith Miller(Centre for Logic and Information St. Francis Xavier University), Wendy MacCaull (Centre for Logic and Information St. Francis Xavier University)
Towards Developing a Trustworthy Web Based Electronic Healthcare Records: The SVG Case Study Sabah Mohammed(Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University), Jinan Fiaidhi (Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University)
Business Process Integration and Management of next-generation Health Monitoring Systems Alain Mouttham (School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario), Liam Peyton(School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario), Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario) |
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3:30-4:00PM |
Break |
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4:00-5:30PM |
Panel discussion |
Submission Instructions
Authors should submit workshop papers electronically to: Kuziemsky@telfer.uottawa.ca
The body of the email should contain, in plain text, the following information:
Papers should be up to 6 pages long, in .pdf or MsWord format. No specific format is required for the initial submission although the IEEE format is preferred.
Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the program committee and the accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence.
Important Dates
The workshop will be held on Monday May 4, 2009
For details on the MCETECH conference including venue and accommodations see http://www.mcetech.org/
Contact Information
Dr. Craig Kuziemsky
Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa
e-mail:Kuziemsky@telfer.uottawa.ca
Phone: 613-562-5800 ext 4792