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Healthgrid 2005 will provide a forum for GRID projects
in the medical, biological and biomedical domains as well as for grid projects that seek to integrate these.
With an emphasis on results, it is hoped that functionality being developed within such projects will be demonstrated.
The overall objective is to reinforce and promote the awareness of the deployment of grid technology in health.
Participation is encouraged across the spectrum of bio/medical informatics from technology developers and researchers through research network
representatives and regional health authorities to healthcare clinicians and administrators.
This will be the third annual Healthgrid conference. The first conference, held in January 2003 in Lyon (http://lyon2003.healthgrid.org), reflected the need to involve all actors – physicians, scientists and technologists
– who might play a part in the application of grid technology to health, whether health care or bio-medical research. The second conference, held in
Clermont-Ferrand in January 2004 (http://clermont2004.healthgrid.org),
reported research and work in progress from a large number of projects. It is intended that the third conference will report on results of current
grid projects in health care, will indicate the outcome of field tests and will identify deployment strategies for prototype applications in health care.
In addition outstanding problem areas and technological challenges will be identified and new solutions to these issues will be proposed. At
Clermont-Ferrand a considerable number of active projects demonstrated early working systems and the third conference will provide greater scope for the
demonstration of real grid systems in action. As a consequence, this conference is expected to be much more focused on concrete results and exchanges of
experience and will therefore be of more immediate interest to active health care providers whose participation in Healthgrid 2005 is encouraged.
The conference will include a number if high profile keynote presentations complemented by a set of high quality refereed papers.
This is an open call for research papers. Papers will be subject to a rigorous refereeing procedure prior to inclusion in the Conference Record.
In addition, selected papers will be published in the series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics published by IOS Press
(http://www.iospress.nl/html/shti.html).
Papers are invited in (but not limited to) the following thematic areas and topics:
- Current healthgrid projects: results, demonstrators
- Grids applications (health care, medical imaging, simulation, biomedicine, bioinformatics)
- Ethics, security and privacy in healthgrids
- Virtual Organisations in healthgrids
- Interoperability of grids across projects
- Healthgrids deployment strategies
- Healthgrids architectures and test beds
- End user tests of healthgrids
- Unresolved technological issues in healthgrids
- Alternative and complementary technologies
- Knowledge management in healthgrids
- Metadata structures and management
- Ontologies in healthcare
- Healthgrid data mining
- Data mediation and integration over bio- and medical data
- Data standardisation for healthgrids
Information for Authors
Contributions can be made as full research papers (up to 5,000 words in length), as posters (short papers up to 3,000 words in length) or
as demonstrations. Selection for oral or poster presentation will be based on the content of the submitted papers, their originality and
contribution, technical quality, style and clarity of presentation and importance to the field. All papers presented at the conference will be included in the
Conference Record.
All conference participants will receive a complimentary copy of the Conference Record on CD together with a paper copy of the abstracts.
A selection of papers will be published in a volume in the series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics following further peer review.
All papers should be submitted to the Programme Committee Chair (
Tony.Solomonides@uwe.ac.uk).
Full papers should not exceed 10 pages in print; poster and demonstration papers should not exceed 4 pages.
The guidelines for authors are those of the series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics to be found at
http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html.
All papers submitted for the conference, even if not submitted to the IOS series, should follow the format indicated in the above guidelines for authors.
Once published, all articles also appear online at http://www.healthgrid.org and
other related websites. All submissions should clearly indicate the preferred type of presentation at the conference: poster, demonstration or oral
presentation. Authors should also indicate if they wish to submit their paper for publication in the series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
In that case, the papers will be subjected to further peer review and the authors will receive the evaluation reports.
Submission of a paper to the conference imply a full acceptation of above rules and conditions.
| Important Dates |
| Track |
Submission Deadline |
Author Notification |
Camera-ready Copy |
| Research paper: |
Nov 15, 2004 |
Dec 17, 2004 |
Jan 15, 2005 |
| Poster proposal: |
Nov 15, 2004 |
Dec 17, 2004 |
Jan 15, 2005 |
| Demo proposal: |
Nov 15, 2004 |
Dec 17, 2004 |
Jan 15, 2005 |
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