Dear Helen and the List, While we wish this discussion tremendous success and hope to join we would also like to take this opportunity to invite a book chapter on this topic from any of the participants for our book on " User driven health care" which addresses these and other issues in healthcare.
Please find the details in this web link: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=657 There is also a chapter template available online at: http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/ Appreciate your help and guidance in formulating strategies toward this book and look forward to your response. Warm regards, rakesh http://peoplesgroup.academia.edu/RakeshBiswas and carmel http://normed.academia.edu/CarmelMartin Editors: 'User driven healthcare and narrative medicine' by IGI Global publishers On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:35 AM, <helen.c...@agfa.com> wrote: > > List > > > Semantic Web technology is making headway to link data and connect people. > However, in healthcare domain, this very success puts a person's privacy at > much greater risks. Previously sufficient de-identification technique may be > rendered inadequate because it is now possible to re-identify an identity > via inference on the web. > > Both the Clinical Observation Interoperability group [COI] and Terminology > group [TERM] were confronted with the challenges of patient consent and > privacy while attempting to connect patient data for secondary uses in a web > of data and web of semantics. > > The definition and sensitivity towards patient privacy and consent depend > on a wide range of factors including care environment, culture, region, > political and religious believes, and the use of patient data. The current > security model is mainly based on predefined roles and relies on > cryptography technology for managing patient consent and ensure > confidentiality. It is not able to handle the complexity of patient > confidentiality context and its changes. The full stack of semantic web > technology from RDF to Trust layer promises much richer expressiveness and > verification mechanisms, which seem to be the natural framework to address > these challenges. > > A separate wiki page is set up to capture the patient privacy and consent > management scenarios. We hope to stimulate the discussion and explore > semantic web solutions for this highly complex problem: > > > *http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/SecurityPrivacy* > > > Please join us for the COI tcon to discuss how semantic web technology can > be used to address this challenges and we hope to identify use cases to > demonstrate the technology framework. > > COI Tcon tomorrow: > > Tues., June 16 , 11:00am -12:00pm US EDT > > Phone +1 617 761 6200, conference 4257 (" HCLS ") > IRC irc://irc.w3.org:6665/hcls > > Browser-based IRC client: > *http://www.w3.org/2001/01/cgi-irc* <http://www.w3.org/2001/01/cgi-irc> > OR > *http://ircatwork.com* <http://ircatwork.com/> > <*http://ircatwork.com/*<http://ircatwork.com/>> > , > Server: irc.w3.org:6665 > Channel: #hcls > > > > > > Kind Regards, > * > Helen Chen | **Agfa HealthCare* > Senior Researcher | HE/Advanced Clinical Applications Research > T +1 519 746 6210 Ext.3186 | M +1 647 400 1523 > > Agfa HealthCare Inc., 455 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON N2L 3X2, Canada > http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/ > ------------------------------ > Click on link to read important disclaimer: > http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/maildisclaimer > >
