The Second International Health Data Workshop (HEDA-2-2021) 

in conjunction with 

The 13th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'21)

*** November 1-3, 2021 - Hammamet, Tunisia *** 

Conference website: https://medes.sigappfr.org/21/topics/heda-workshop

Objectives and topics 

After the first successful HEDA workshop (Tallinn, Estonia, June 21st, 2021  https://heda.isp.uni-luebeck.de/) the Second International Health Data Workshop (HEDA-2-2021) in conjunction with The 13th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'21) will take place in Hammamet (Tunisia) on November 1-3, 2021.

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 the 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. No big-data analytics will happen without optimised data sharing and reuse, which we still lack despite different interoperability standards in the medical domain. 

HEDA-2-2021 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HEDA-2-2021 invites paper submission, including position and work-in-progress papers, about unpublished research covering all aspects of health data modelling, interoperability and analytics. 

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with the length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify the authors of the final decision. Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to health data. At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. Please submit your paper by https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=heda22021 

List of Topics

• 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 

Committees

Program Committee (to be completed)

• Martin Leucker, University of Lübeck, DE 
• Yngve Lamo, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NO
• Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, AT
• Vincenzo Ciancia, ISTI, IT
• 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
• Adria Rutle, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NO

Organizing committee

• Peeter Ross (co-chair), Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), EE
• Gunnar Piho (co-chair), Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), EE 

Publication

HEDA-2-2021 papers will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Best papers will be selected for a special issue.

Venue

The workshop will go virtual with the hope to meet physically in Hammamet (Tunisia) on November 01-03, 2021.

Contact

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