CFP: privacy & security of health technologies

Call for Participation

A Research Agenda for Privacy and Security of Healthcare Technologies

Indianapolis, Indiana

October 26-27, 2009

Proposals Due: September 10, 2009.

All 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.

Rationale

In 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 Areas

Medical 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 Format

In 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 (up to $500), 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 Submission

We encourage interested experts from industry, government, and
academia to submit a short proposal via email by September 10, 2009.
The proposal should follow the template available at
http://www.cacr.iu.edu/ProposalTemplate.doc
, and include:

1) 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 20, 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 University

Bob Blakley, Burton Group

Workshop Steering Committee:

Stan Crosley, Eli Lily and Company

Minaxi Gupta, Indiana University

Bill Heetderks, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and
Bioengineering (NIBIB)

Jonathan Moreno, University of Pennsylvania

Steve Myers, Indiana University

Brian Quick, Clarian Health