Workshops Monday, May 4th, 2009   W1 E-health: Towards System Interoperability through Process Integration and Performance Management New: Program now available! W2 Practice and Theory of IT Security (PTITS'2009)  CANCELLED Workshop details Title (W1) E-health: Towards System Interoperability through Process Integration and Performance Management Goals 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. 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. Organizers Craig Kuziemsky (Kuziemsky@telfer.uottawa.ca), Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (ON), Canada Liam Peyton, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (ON), Canada Morad Benyoucef, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (ON), Canada Norman Archer, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton (ON), Canada Important dates Deadline for submission: March 9, 2009 Notification of acceptance, March 25, 2009 Final version due: April 15, 2009 Workshop day: Monday, May 4, 2009 More information http://business.admin.uottawa.ca/~kuziemsky/MCETECHe_health2009.htm Title (W2) 3rd Workshop on Practice and Theory of IT Security CANCELLED Goals This workshop is a quality scientific meeting where researchers can present original contributions on information technology security and privacy, applied or theoretical. More precisely, topics of this workshop include (but are not limited to): Network security. Application and middleware security. Operating systems security. Intrusion detection and protection. Cryptography and cryptographic protocols. Access control requirements and models. Language based security. Information protection and hiding. Semantic foundations of IT security. Security and privacy in Web services and e-commerce IT issues related to legal requirements The workshop will provide a balanced mix of technical papers, implementation experiences, applications and case studies. Organizers Kamel Adi (first.last@uqo.ca), Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau (Qc), Canada Mourad Debbabi (last@ciise.concordia.ca), Concordia University, Montreal (Qc), Canada Luigi Logrippon (first.last@uqo.ca), Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau (Qc), Canada Important dates Deadline for submission: March 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance, April 18, 2009 Final version due: April 25, 2009 Workshop day: Monday, May 4, 2009 More information See the PTITS'2009 Web site: http://w3.uqo.ca/ptits/