Chairs
Thomas Karopka
IT Science Center Rügen gGmbH
EFMI LIFOSS WG co-chair
Germany
Ricardo Joao Cruz Correia
Universidade do Porto
Portugal
Scope and topics
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a relatively young area of research that is currently in the focus of different research communities. The increase in life expectance and the simultaneous growth in the number of age related diseases call for a close collaboration of all stakeholders involved in the care process for the elderly. The term Ambient Assisted Living was created in Germany and subsequently used for the Joint Programme for Ambient Assisted Living at the EU level. Outside Europe this term is not used. In the US research in the area of "Personal Health" is somewhat related. The currently still early stage of development allows for an avoidance of negative trends that are observable in related areas, e.g. the area of health care: namely the fragmentation of software solutions. Free/Libre Open Source software (FLOSS) and the use of open standards is one strategy to support the development of interoperable systems in AAL.
After the very successful First International Workshop on Open Source in European Health Care: The Time is Ripe - OSEHC 2009 this second edition of the workshop calls especially for proposals out of the area of AAL. But as the subtitle "Crossing the borders" suggests, we are interested in FLOSS applications out of all areas of health care and related fields like biomedicine and would like to stimulate the exchange of knowledge, experience and hopefully software modules between different fields of research and different applications. Furthermore we welcome contributions and ideas that focus on collaboration between projects and application in the area described above.
Workshop Program Committee
Herman Tolentino, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States
Fred Trotter, SynSeer, United States
Alvin B. Marcelo, Director National Telehealth Center, University of the Phillipines Manila
Jan Vejvalka, Faculty Hospital Motol, Czech Republic
Stĺle Walderhaug, SINTEF, Norway
Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings
book, under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support.
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