CfP: HEDA'201 - The International Health Data Workshop

[Martin Leucker]

[ Apologize for Multiple Copies ]

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HEDA2021: The International Health Data Workshop 2021

in conjunction with 10th International Conference on Model and Data 
Engineering (MEDI 2021)
TalTech (Tallinn University of Technology)
Tallinn, Estonia, June 21st, 2021

https://heda.isp.uni-luebeck.de

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The International Health Data Workshop (HEDA 2021)  
(https://heda.isp.uni-luebeck.de ) in conjunction with 10th 
International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021, 
https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/)

Objectives and topics
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Health data covers a brought range of data influencing people's health 
monitoring, analysing, and predicting. In general, it includes all such 
data such as environmental data, individual data gathered, for example, 
via fitness trackers and especially clinical data.

The routine clinical data are considered precious, and their secondary 
use is considered beneficial for policymakers, public health officers, 
scientists, clinicians, citizens and industry. Different initiatives, 
including European Health Data Network and Clinical Trial Data 
initiative, initiated by the European Commission and the EFPIA (European 
Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations), are searching 
for better solutions for utilising citizens' health data. However, due 
to the semantic heterogeneity of health data, we still do not have a 
unified approach and use divide-and-conquer approaches instead. To 
facilitate big-data analytics one is dependent of optimised data sharing 
and data reuse, but it is still lacking despite different 
interoperability standards in the medical domain.

HEDA 2021 aims to bring together academics, practitioners and other 
interested attendees for presentations, and discussions in the domain of 
health data modelling, interoperability, and analytics. The aim is to 
create a broader community to explore the potential for open secondary 
use and analytics of citizens' health data and develop and evaluate the 
solutions to make it happen. We emphasise here the central role of 
citizens, as data holders, whose privacy, active consent and control 
must be ensured when processing the health data in a global context.

HEDA 2021 invites paper submission, including position and 
work-in-progress papers, about unpublished research covering all aspects 
of health data modelling, interoperability and analytics.


List of Topics
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- Health data models and meta-models
- Widespread Usage of Health data
- Anonymisation and privacy of health data
- Health data integrity and quality
- Open health data platforms
- Services for data retrieval, data exchange, data analysis (Data 
analytics as a service)
- The architecture of eHealth systems
- Syntactical operability
- Semantic operability
- Device-to-Device Communication
- Data from social media, fitness trackers
- Combining data sources

Program Committee (to be completed)

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Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, AT
Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, FR
Lukas Fischer, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH (SCCH), AT
Josef Ingenerf, University of Lübeck, DE
Ludovico Iovino, Gran Sasso Science Institute, IT
Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, CA
Fazle Rabbi, University of Bergen, NO
Peeter Ross, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), EE
Adria Rutle, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NO

Organizing committee
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Martin Leucker (co-chair), University of Lübeck
Yngve Lamo(co-chair), Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Gunnar Piho (local organiser), Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)
Publication


Submission Guidelines & Proceedings
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All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another 
journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Full papers 10 to 14 pages
Posters 6 to 8 pages

The papers should be strictly following the CCIS format guidelines. 
Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available 
at Springer's web site
Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=heda2021

HEDA2021 proceedings will be published by Springer in "Communications in 
Computer and Information Science" (CCIS). Best papers from all accepted 
MEDI workshops will be selected for a special journal issue.

Important Dates
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Abstract deadline      March 21, 2021
Submission deadline       March 28, 2021
Workshop                  June 21, 2021


Venue
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The workshop will go virtual with hope to organize it physically in 
Tallinn on June 21, 2021.

Contact
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to gunnar.piho@taltech.ee