3 rd International Symposium on Foundations of Health Informatics Engineering and Systems (FHIES), August 2013, United Nations University, Macau Report on Research Directions in Health Informatics Engineering and Systems

FHIES Symposium: Key Research Areas 1.Modelling, building and certifying software-intensive ICT systems in Healthcare; 2.Software Engineering: formal methods 3.Embedded software in medical devices: patient safety, efficacy, and interfacing; 4.Security & privacy for e-Health Information; 5.Workflow support and inter-operability in Healthcare; and 6.Healthcare ICT applications in the Developing World.

FHIES 2013: Interesting Paper Publication Process 1.Submission 1; – Peer Review 1; 2.Submission 2; – Pre-Proceedings – community distribution; – Peer Review 2: Symposium paper discussion, comments, suggestions; 3.Submission 3; – Peer-review 3 4.Submission 4: – Post-Proceedings (LNCS Series) – open distribution and indexing in electronic databases (possibly in 2014) 5.Special Issue Journal Invitation (new cycle of peer reviews!!)

Purpose of Attendance: Paper Presentations 1.Dube K, Zanamwe N, Thomson JS, Mtenzi FJ and Hapanyengwi GT; Modeling the Meal Planning Problem to Exploit Knowledge from National and International Nutrition Guidelines for Use in Mobile Web-Based HIV/AIDS Nutrition Therapy Applications; 2.Dube K and Gallagher T; Approach and Method for Generating Realistic Synthetic e-Healthcare Records (RS- EHR) for Secondary Use; 3.Dube K; Health Informatics in the Developing World: Is this Our Problem? NB: The works presented in these papers will be presented later in our CSIT Research Presentation Series

Interesting Highlights - 1 Mobile Computing: Use of Voice as Interface to Information Systems – the $1Billion Industry (Microsoft in Chhatisgarh, India); – 85-90% mobile phone penetration; Use mobile phones to improve communication between communities and regional administrators; – DocTalk: health messages for health behaviors in health conditions, e.g., pregnancy broadcasting voice messages to more than one patient; – News websites based on voice contents only => news uploaded as voice phone messages: How to index and search for news items? How to preserve privacy & anonymity of news contributors?

Interesting Highlights - 2 Heal Thyself: – facilitating patient self-care – a neglected area of engineering research, – Closed social media for healthcare – diabetes self-management in young people (teenagers); Empathy in design - human factors in healthcare: – Bio-Medical Engineer 2 nd top job after Actuary worldwide; – Example failures: Ballot paper design – Bush vs Al Gore, and Medication bottle labels – obscure instructions If microwave oven are still difficult to operate, then are life critical medical devices any better? (video)are life critical medical devices any better – Adverse events in healthcare (video)due to poor human factors design Adverse events in healthcare

Interesting Highlights 3: Professor Jane Win Shih Liu: Research Issues in Smart Homes and Elderly Care Views on elderly care technology support: Elders should not to be treated as fragile pets and need no monitoring; Elders need to be assisted to remain active for longer periods of their lives; Elders need to be empowered to do things they find difficult to do; Key elderly support principle: To live well (active and healthy), then die fast; Implications on smart home research: Invasive monitoring using smart sensors neither priority nor desirable from elderly perspective => need for new definition and research agenda for Smart Homes; Research on technologies to facilitate the key support principle, without monitoring; Research on technologies that live with a person and get smarter as the person’s ability diminishes due to age without introducing remote sensing and monitoring. Does not disallow the role of sensors in extreme life-threatening events;

Discussion/Questions? FHIES 2013, August 20 – 23, United Nations University, Macau