ICT
in Healthcare - Legal, Ethical and Social
Challenges
Friday
11th March 2016
Middlesex
University, London
You
are invited to participate in a
one-day workshop on "ICT in Healthtcare" jointly
organised by Middlesex
University(UK), The University
of Miami (USA) and The
Castlegate Consultancy (UK).
Special guest speakers Professor Kenneth Goodman,
Professor of Medicine at
The University of Miami and past
chair of the Ethics Committee of
the American Medical Informatics
Association and director of his
institution's WHO Collaborating
Center in Ethics and Health
Policy. He is also the author of
the new book "Ethics,
Medicine and Information Technology", Cambridge University
Press (January 2016).
Dr.
Joana Namorado MD,
Scientific Officer,
European Commission, DG
Research & Innovation,
E1 – Ethics, Belgium. (TBC)
Ms.
Diane Whitehouse,
The Castlegate
Consultancy, European
Health Telematics Association
– Principal eHealth Policy
Analyst,
ICT and Society (TC9) – chair
– International Federation for
Information Processing, Social
accountability and ICT – chair
– International Federation for
Information Processing.
Costs
The workshop is free for
all attendees, but you are
expected to fund your own
transportation and
accommodation costs. You
will need to confim your
attendance via the confirmation
form.
Location
Middlesex University, Committee
Room 3, Town Hall, The Burroughs
Hendon, NW4 4BT. See travel
information below.
Time 9am
- 5pm
Synopsis
Information and
communication technologies (ICTs)
continue to play an integral role
in the provision of healthcare
spanning various specific
applications such as eHealth,
mHealth, Telemedicine, Telecare
and Telehealth.International
institutions (e.g., European
Commission; WHO) have
steadfastly promoted the use of
ICTs to positively transform the
healthcare sector and to
facilitate cross-border services
worldwide. ICTs are not only
useful in directly providing
access to healthcare but also in
facilitating and supporting
various healthcare related
functions such as medical data
storage (electronic medical
records, cloud computing), data
sharing (locally, nationally and
across borders) and data analysis
(big data analytics).Policy makers and business
continue to seek ways to utilize
ICTs in healthcare, to provide
benefits to various stakeholders
including patients, healthcare
professionals, governments and
business ventures. These and other
developments in ICTs and
healthcare, bring challenges and
raise concerns that span legal,
ethical and social issues.
Format
As with our previous
workshops, the format will include
invited speakers, working sessions
and panels.
Topics
covered
In light
of the importance of healthcare to
society the 2016 workshop aims to
explore some of the ethical, legal
and social challenges relevant to
ICT in Healthcare.These relate to:
Bioinformatics,
biorepositories
Decision
support systems and prognostic
scoring systems
Disability
and health informatics
Data security
and integrity
Electronic
health records
Electronic
prescribing
Government
regulation of health informatics
tools
Health data
(big data, security, secondary
use, integrity)
International
issues, including harmonization
and best practices
Internet and
the World Wide Web
Liability
Mobile health
Patients’
rights
Personal
health records
Public health
informatics and policy
Privacy,
confidentiality, data protection
Remote
presence healthcare and medical
homes
Responsible
Conduct of Research (RCR)
Robots and
digital/virtual companions
Social
networking
Software
engineering and writing.
Call
for papers
Short 1-2
page position papers (maximum of
1,000 words) on these topics are
welcomed. The papers can and
should relate particularly to
research being undertaken and
applications being developed or
more specifically deployed in a
variety of jurisdictions: e.g., in
the United Kingdom, European
Member States, Canada or the
United States of America. Use The Cambridge Quarterly
of Healthcare Ethics' format
for your paper: https://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CQH.
It is
anticipated that the most
interesting and striking papers
will be selected for development
into full papers for The Cambridge Quarterly
of Healthcare Ethics’ new
section on bioethics and health
information technology https://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CQH.
Submissions
should be sent to:diane.whitehouse[at]thecastlegateconsultancy.com
Deadlines
Submission of
position paper: Thursday
11th February
2016.
Notification
of acceptance of position paper: Monday 22nd February 2016.
Programme
A workshop programme will be
published by the end of February
2016 (after acceptance of position
papers).
Hotels in Hendon
Click here
for a list of suitable hotels in
Hendon, close to Middlesex
University. We suggest staying
at Hendon
Hall subject to
your budget.
Workshop
Organisers/Committee Dr. Carlisle
George -Associate
Professor,
Middlesex University, Barrister. Ms. Diane
Whitehouse -eHealth
Consultant(The
Castlegate Consultancy), Chair
- IFIP Technical Committee 9
and IFIP WG9.2 Prof Kenneth
Goodman - Professor,
University of Miami, USA. Dr. Penny Duquenoy -Associate Professor,
Middlesex University, Chair
- BCS ICT Ethics
Specialist Group.
Middlesex
University Hendon campus in
north London is located ten
minutes from the Northern Line
(Hendon Central) and Thameslink
rail line (Hendon Station),
either of which takes you to
Middlesex from central London in
under 30 minutes.
Hendon Town Hall is right next
door to the Hendon campus of
Middlesex University. It is ten
minutes' walk away from Hendon
Central, an
underground railway station on
the Northern Line. Click
here for information on
getting to Hendon Town Hall
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to view the location of the
university via google maps.
