The International Health Data Workshop (HEDA 2021) 

in conjunction with 

10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 

*** 21-23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia *** 

Conference website: https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ 

Objectives and topics 

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 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. To facilitate big-data analytics one is dependent of optimised data sharing and data reuse, but it is still lacking despite different interoperability standards in the medical domain. 

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HEDA 2021 invites paper submission, including position and work-in-progress papers, about unpublished research covering all aspects of health data modelling, interoperability and analytics.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

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers 10 to 14 pages 
• Posters 6 to 8 pages 

The papers should be strictly following the CCIS format guidelines. Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available at Springer's web site 

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)

• 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
• Peeter Ross, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), EE
• Adria Rutle, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NO

Organizing committee

• Martin Leucker (co-chair), University of Lübeck 
• Yngve Lamo(co-chair), Western Norway University of Applied Sciences 
• Gunnar Piho (local organiser), Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) 

Publication

HEDA2021 proceedings will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science" (CCIS). Best papers from all accepted MEDI workshops will be selected for a special journal issue.

Venue

The workshop will go virtual with hope to organize it physically in Tallinn on June 21-23, 2021.

Contact

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