"Social Computing in Digital Health" aims to discuss the application of social computing to eHealth, mHealth, and public health services. This field of research aims to bring together interactive social intelligence to eHealth systems by combining information from multiple users and groups, along with context information and social interaction to promote innovative methods of health system and monitoring.

Technological developments in computing and networking have largely made the delivery of health services, including medical diagnosis and patient care, possible from a distance. Many funded projects have evaluated and are evaluating the use of communications technology in the implementation and performance of telemedicine activities, and examined the impact of telemedicine on medical care in terms of cost, quality, and access. Telemedicine has become a growing new interdisciplinary field, which will eventually contribute to improving the quality of health care for everyone. However, successful implementation of this vision depends not only on innovative telemedicine applications but also on networking and computing technical readiness. Furthermore, many ethical, social, and political problems arising in telemedicine need technical solutions.

SPAIMEH: Traditional access control measures for privacy preservation may not match the eHealth record system scenario, where the roles of all stakeholders are less defined. Questions regarding data ownership and information management obligations for major stakeholders (healthcare professionals, patients, administrators) arise. Healthcare professionals require ready access to as much information as possible to support informed decision making. However, patients may want to exercise control over the entities gaining access to their personal health information, with particular concerns for information privacy. Balancing these competing concerns is a major challenge in the implementation of successful e-Health systems. This is not just a technological challenge, but a multidisciplinary problem with technological, social, legal and health policy aspects.

ReHIS: The workshop provides an international forum for research community working on testing, verification, performance evaluation, and reliability of eHealth research areas.

The operation room is the most expensive area in hospitals. To optimize operating room management, connected devices which are communicating and sharing data with other peripheral devices are necessary. By analyzing available data of these connected devices, actions of surgical staff and other data in the operating room and parallel matching of all available data with dedicated workflow models, will make context-aware operating rooms possible. These context-aware operating rooms could help to prevent surgical errors i.e. by automated detection of deviations from the standard processes or even automate counting of consumables and prevent them from being remained in the patients´ cavity.

This workshop covers the acquisition, analysis, as well as modeling and monitoring of surgical processes and the integration of all information acquired during anamnesis, i.e. anatomy of patient, diagnostic information, etc. in process models. To achieve the main goal of a context-aware operating rooms, a close cooperation of clinicians, researchers and engineers is necessary. Therefore this will be an interdisciplinary workshop, interactive demonstrations are welcome.

The objective of this workshop is to offer an international platform for the presentation of research papers that would address the impact of Emerging Technologies on Healthcare applications and services. Recent advances in sensing, computing, communication and networking technologies have paved the way to dangle unprecedented pervasive healthcare applications and services. For example, body sensor networks (BSNs) employ numerous miniaturized, portable, and autonomous sensing devices in, on, or around the body for pervasive health monitoring such as predicting contingency abnormal condition and treatment of chronic diseases including diabetes and hypertension. Moreover, BSNs can help in determining context-aware psychological classification (e.g., personality type, mood, psychological condition) in real-time based on physiological parameters (e.g. body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, perspiration, and brain impulses), which can revolutionize human-interactions. Other potential applications may include activity scheduling based on circadian rhythms, social network computing, interactive gaming, driver drowsiness detection, and entertainment. Nonetheless, enormous amount of critical data (Big Data) collected through various BSN nodes require fast, reliable, on-demand, scalable, secure, and powerful communication (e.g., 5G) and computing infrastructure (e.g., cloud computing). However, integration of these technologies introduces new social, legal, technical and security challenges. Emerging technologies have played a vital role to elevate the health services in rural and urban areas of entire world. New horizons are opened in Telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, remote ICU monitoring (e-ICU), wearable technology, patient data analytics and healthcare cyber-security. The aim of this workshop is to foster high quality original, unpublished research papers that articulate recent advancements on the domain.

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the implications of 5G, Big Data, cyber-physical systems on the emergence of new treatment strategies (smart pharmaceuticals) and the subsequent change of service- and business models. Building on a workshop from IEEE Healthcom 2016 in Munich in September we would bring together a vision document (6 pages or so) to outline a roadmap for the next step on the development of strategies for the management of chronic, non-communicable conditions utilizing Industrie 4.0 design principles and emerging network technologies (5G).

Speakers:

• Christoph Thuemmler, Edinburgh Napier University
• Lyse Brillouet, Orange
• David Soldani, Nokia
• Astrid Grottland, Norwegian Centre of eHealth Research

The welcome reception will take place at the Hotel Sofitel Munich Bayerpost.

Keynotes:

• Dr. Walter Weigel, Huawei: Beyond the Wire: how 5G will boost e-Health
• Christian Hay, GS1: The Role of G-Tins in virtualization in Health Care
• Lyse Brillouet, Orange

5G PPP Phase 3 calls are expected to be announced in 2017. Between now and then stakeholder discussions will shape the call text with regards to highlighted topics, impact, aims and objectives. This workshop will offer one of the rare opportunities to take action on building this important future call. The workshop will address in particular the requirements of the health domain.

Speakers:

• Bernard Barrani, European Commission
• David Soldani, Nokia
• Halid Hrasnica, Eurescom
• Sajida Zouarhi, Orange
• Eirik Arsand & Astrid Grottland, University of Northern Norway
• Altaf Sadique, GaneData, Leeds
• Christoph Thuemmler, Edinburgh Napier University

Venue is in Munich old town. Venue is reachable by public transport. Guidance will be provided.

Mobile health (m-Health) covers health applications that are enabled by mobile communication devices such as smart phones, tablets and laptop computers. The forthcoming 5G (fifth generation of mobile communications) will enable the independent communication of intelligent devices (known as the Internet of Things IoT) providing an ecosystem where such devices will have the autonomy to monitor the health related issues of individuals and update the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) that is centrally controlled by the healthcare system. This ecosystem will provide amazing opportunities for innovative applications that could transform the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery and personalised support. It is envisaged that together with prescribed medication we will be prescribed a mobile application system that will provide support on the way that we treat our health conditions. It is also important to point out that this ecosystem is predicted to create jobs and economic growth combining ICT, smart medical devices, and smart pharmaceuticals all working together for the delivery of healthcare encouraging prevention and leading to a healthier lifestyle.

The aim of this workshop is to present the vision of m-Health under 5G, provide experts' views on the development of this future ecosystem of intelligent devices and demonstrate with the presentation of case studies and short demos the benefits to the healthcare industry and the individuals.

ALFRED - Personal Interactive Assistant for Independent Living and Active Ageing - is a project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission under Grant Agreement No. 611218. It will allow older people to live longer at their own homes with the possibility to act independently and to actively participate in society by providing the technological foundation for an ecosystem.

The ALFRED project organizes this workshop in collaboration with invited speakers to present and discuss:

• possibilities for interoperability and open frameworks to bring solutions together
• research results concerning interoperability and standards in the field of active ageing
• needs of end users of technology and how these can be tackled within research
• presentation of Google about Big Data (as an example the genomics project) and Machine Learning

Programme: http://alfred.eu/opaa-workshop/#schedule

In the Panel/Workshop at HealthCom 2016 on "Cyber-Security, IoT, Wearables and the QS", the IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community will bring together, under one roof, expertise in issues related to cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, wearables and the Quantified Self. Notable experts from the various IEEE Societies (Circuits & Systems Society, Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, Computer Society, Society on Social Implications of Technology & Consumer Electronics Society) will present and discuss their related fields of expertise. The audience and the experts will then discuss how to bring it all together and propose a vision and a plan of action for the next decade of persistent physiological monitoring.

Topics: - Wearable Devices and the Quantified Self - Cyberspace, Privacy and Information Security in the Healthcare Sector: Social Implications of Technology - Connecting Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices to Internet for Remote Sensing and Treatment - Up Close and Personal: Cybersecurity in Medical IoT Devices.

Panelists:

• Eric Evenchick, Linklayer Labs, Toronto, Canada
• Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corp., McLean, VA
• Luis Kun, IEEE, Faifax, VA
• Mohamad Sawan, University of Montréal, Montreal, Canada