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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 its 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. The
Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research announces a
workshop that will identify a US research agenda for the coming decade on
privacy and security of healthcare technologies October 26-27 on the IUPUI
campus. The workshop will include US leaders in academia, industry, and
government. Results of this workshop will be presented to US government
agencies. In this working meeting, there will be a series of break-out
sessions for each of the key areas described below. 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. Key
Areas
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
Submission
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: Workshop
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