[Insight-users] Call for papers "Open source in European Healthcare - Crossing the borders - OSEHC 2010"

[Thomas Karopka]

*Call for papers "Open source in European Healthcare - Crossing the 
borders - OSEHC 2010" *

In conjunction with BIOSTEC 2010 the EFMI LIFOSS WG 
<http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/ibmi/efmi/index.php?Itemid=260&id=1076&option=com_content&task=view> 
and the IMIA OS WG 
<http://www.imia.org/working_groups/WG_Profile.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-MaxRecords=1&-SkipRecords=11&-Database=organizations&-KeyField=Org_ID&-SortField=workgroup_sig&-SortOrder=ascending&type=wgsig> 
will hold The 2nd International Workshop on Open Source in European 
Health Care: Crossing the borders - OSEHC 2010 
<http://www.biostec.org/OSEHC.htm> from 22-23rd January 2010. The Third 
International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and 
Technologies-BIOSTEC 2010 <http://www.biostec.org/> takes place in 
Valencia, Spain January 20th-23rd 2010.

*Scope and topics*
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a relatively young area of research 
that is currently in the focus of different research communities. The 
increase in life expectance and the simultaneous growth in the number of 
age related diseases call for a close collaboration of all stakeholders 
involved in the care process for the elderly. The term Ambient Assisted 
Living was created in Germany and subsequently used for the Joint 
Programme for Ambient Assisted Living at the EU level. Outside Europe 
this term is not used. In the US research in the area of “Personal 
Health” is somewhat related. The currently still early stage of 
development allows for an avoidance of negative trends that are 
observable in related areas, e.g. the area of health care: namely the 
fragmentation of software solutions. Free/Libre Open Source software 
(FLOSS) and the use of open standards is one strategy to support the 
development of interoperable systems in AAL.

After the very successful First International Workshop on Open Source in 
European Health Care: The Time is Ripe – OSEHC 2009 this second edition 
of the workshop calls especially for proposals out of the area of AAL. 
But as the subtitle “Crossing the borders” suggests, we are interested 
in FLOSS applications out of all areas of health care and related fields 
like biomedicine and would like to stimulate the exchange of knowledge, 
experience and hopefully software modules between different fields of 
research and different applications. Furthermore we welcome 
contributions and ideas that focus on collaboration between projects and 
application in the area described above.

*Important Dates*
Regular Paper Submission: *October 13, 2009*
Authors Notification: *November 17, 2009*
Final Paper Submission and Registration: *November 30, 2009*

* = Call for Demonstrations =*
The Open Source in European Health Care Workshop (OSEHC) is calling for 
submissions of demonstrations and use cases of open source software in 
health care, biomedical informatics and Ambient Assisted Living.
Interested parties should submit a brief description of their proposed 
demonstration via email to the workshop chair. Proposals should be 1 
page in length at maximum, include a title, description of system to be 
demonstrated, main results, novelty and significance of the work, any 
related publications, estimated space requirements for the demonstration 
and whether internet access is needed. Please include the name, address, 
email address, phone and fax numbers for all co-authors on the submitted 
work.
Software may be presented live or via a poster explaining the software 
and the background. Additionally you may submit a use case where an open 
source system or algorithm might be useful to resolve an existing 
problem in health care. The demonstrations will take place in parallel 
with the poster sessions at the BIOSTEC 2010 conference.

The purpose of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Biomedical 
Engineering Systems and Technologies is to bring together researchers 
and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals 
and informatics/computer scientists, interested in both theoretical 
advances and applications of information systems, artificial 
intelligence, signal processing, electronics and other engineering tools 
in knowledge areas related to biology and medicine. BIOSTEC is composed 
of three co-located conferences, each specialized in at least one of the 
aforementioned main knowledge areas.
For more information visit the conference web site http://www.biostec.org/

Best regards,
Thomas Karopka
Ricardo Correia
OSEHC2010 workshop chairs

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