A Research Agenda for Privacy and Security of Healthcare Technologies

Call for ParticipationProposals Due: August 25, 2009All expenses for approved participants will be covered by Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research.This two-day workshop will identify a US research agenda for the coming decade on privacy and security of healthcare technologies. The workshop will include US leaders in academia, industry, and government. Results of this workshop will be presented to US government agencies.RationaleIn his inaugural speech, President Obama set a challenge for this country to "wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower it's costs." When utilizing technology in health care, it is critical to address issues of privacy and security in the initial design rather than waiting to retrofit patches to a weak system. Yet our resources, both of money and of time, are limited. To use these limited resources effectively, the research community and funding agencies of government must have a clear roadmap detailing both the needs and the challenges facing the privacy and security of health technologies.Key AreasMedical and health informatics are huge fields to cover in the span of one workshop. Thus, the workshop will focus on the following four areas:

1. electronic and personal health records,
2. patient centered technologies and devices,
3. systems infrastructure (e.g. for hospital environments), and
4. bio-banking, including DNA sequencing

Workshop FormatIn this working meeting, there will be a series of break-out sessions for each of the key areas described above. White papers will be made available to all participants before the workshop, and participants will be expected to read the papers relevant to their areas before the workshop. Break-out groups will report back to the entire group, where similar issues and themes that apply to multiple areas will be identified.Over the course of the workshop, break-out groups will 1) brainstorm privacy and security issues and problems in their key area, 2) select the most critical problems to be included in the final report, and 3) write scenarios appropriate for an educated, but lay, audience that demonstrate the important nature of their selected problems.Travel, meals, and lodging expenses for up to 60 approved participants will be paid for by Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR).Proposal SubmissionWe encourage interested experts from industry, government, and academia to submit a short proposal via email by August 25, 2009. The proposal should follow the template available at the bottom of this page, and include:

1. Name, affiliation, and contact info
2. Brief bio
3. A brief statement of what you think are 1-2 of the most critical privacy and security research challenges we face in the intersection of technology and healthcare, categorized in one or more of the "key areas" described above.

Proposals should be no more than 1 page in length, submitted in .pdf format. Email proposals to cacr@indiana.edu, with the subject line "CACR workshop proposal". Selected applicants will be notified by September 15, 2009. Accepted proposals will be made available to all workshop participants before the workshop.Direct any questions about the workshop to cacr@indiana.edu.Workshop co-chairs:Kay Connelly, Indiana UniversityBob Blakley, Burton GroupWorkshop Steering Committee:Stan Crosley, Eli Lily and CompanyMinaxi Gupta, Indiana UniversityBill Heetderks, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)Jonathan Moreno, University of PennsylvaniaSteve Myers, Indiana UniversityMark Olson, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, HarvardBrian Quick, Clarian Health

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