Re: Managing Patient Confidentiality and Consent in Semantic Web - please join COI call tomorrow for discussion

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.chen@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
>
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> Kind Regards,
> *
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> Senior Researcher | HE/Advanced Clinical Applications Research
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