The m-health industry continues to revolutionize healthcare world wide.  Keeping up with the changes and the languages of m-health can be challenging.  However, as with any industry, once the basic terms are defined, their role and importance can be better understood.  Most importantly, with understanding comes the ability to use that knowledge to better communicate and succeed in today’s ever-changing m-healthcare marketplace. As the mobile technology has reached a mature state it has become vital to understand the security and privacy issues surrounding it and identify possible solutions to make it a better alternative to the current fixed world.

This workshop will focus on developing private and secure mobile health solutions for the next generation healthcare providers.  Within this workshop experts in mobile technology, mobile security and mobile privacy will explain what they have learned from the experience implementing the framework in these different communities.  Experts will also discuss the common elements of health information exchange architectures, new architectures for secure mobile information exchange, models for trusted health information sharing based on the 3G mobile networks.  It is a critical learning opportunity designed to allow the exchange of ideas with leaders and members of communities working in the area of mobile health care all around the world.  This workshop is designed to inform participants the current status of the mobile security and privacy issues and to facilitate the growing collaboration between the industry and academic leaders in the healthcare community.

This workshop is held with the Pervasive healthcare Conference 2006. http://www.pervasivehealth.org/ 

Keynote talk by:

Prof Chris J Mitchell (BSc PhD (London) CEng CMath FBCS FIEE FIMA), Royal Holloway, University of London

Prior to his appointment as Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, in March 1990, he was a Project Manager in the Networks and Communications Laboratory of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, which he joined in June 1985. Between 1979 and 1985 he was at Racal-Comsec Ltd. (Salisbury, UK), part of Racal Electronics Plc, latterly as Chief Mathematician.

Since joining Royal Holloway in 1990 he has played a role in the development of the Information Security Group, and helped launch the MSc in Information Security in 1992 and the MSc in Secure Electronic Commerce in 1999. He spent the academic year 1996-97 on leave of absence from Royal Holloway as a full-time consultant at Europay International, Waterloo, Belgium.

He continues to act as a consultant on a variety of topics in information security, and he is also in the advisory board for Vodafone and Microsoft trust worthy computing.
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Kevin J. Dean

Managing Director, Public Sector Healthcare

Internet Business Solutions Group

Cisco Systems Inc.

Kevin Dean is Managing Director for Public Sector Healthcare in Cisco’s Internet Business Solution Group (IBSG), focusing on helping public sector customers to develop their strategies and implementation plans for “Connected Health” information management and technology. He has experience in numerous aspects of health IT strategy and execution. He and his team work with national & regional Governments around the world, as well as working with the European Commission and World Health Organisation.  Kevin edited and introduced a collection of essays from leading health IT thinkers (Thought Leaders:  “Connected Health” published December 2003), setting out ideas, lessons and opportunities for networked healthcare based on real experience.  He also edited and contributed to the White Paper on the use of Grid Technology in healthcare, jointly published with the Healthgrid Association, in 2004.