Workshop on Mobile Medical Applications, MemphisTN, Vereinigte Staaten

In recent years, a wave of smart phone applications are being proposed that monitor human health, control medical device operations, and provide feedback to promote healthy activities&#046; These advances have led regulatory agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration to consider the smartphone as a medical device&#046; Thus, smartphone applications for health care are critical pieces of software that have strict requirements on patient safety, data security, and efficacy&#046; He althcare applications<br>(Health apps) involve several unique features such as interfacing with physiological<br>sensors, data sharing among applications, communicating and storing personalized data<br>in cloud servers, maintaining privacy of health data, controlli ng mission critical medical devices (infusion pumps, ventilators), and displaying physiological data in a way intuitive to the user and time saving for the doctor&#046; These features introduce several key software development issues which when not addressed adequately can cause harm to the users&#046; Current methods for application approval do not consider safety, security and efficacy&#046; This workshop is a platform to discuss the smartphone based healthcare application software development with special focus on their unique characteristics and regulatory requirements&#046; The workshop calls for original submissions, which have not been submitted for review or published previously in any other venue&#046; Areas of interest include but are not limited to:<br>Novel smartphone based healthcare applications<br>New model of application development<br>Health app marketplace<br>Frameworks for end to end software development for health apps<br>Safety issues in smartphone based healthcare applications<br>Formal safety verification of health apps<br>Ensuring bug free software for health apps<br>Novel ways of ensuring health data privacy in mobile apps<br>Case studies on large deployments of smartphone based health applications<br>Novel methods to perform usability analysis of health apps<br>Integration of health apps for synergistic benefits<br>