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ICT for Health: Networks, standards and innovation
ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference,
Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 4-6 December 2019

Venue: GTRI Conference Centre, Atlanta, United States
Contact: kaleidoscope@itu.int

Day 1 - Wednesday, 4 December

08:00-09:15	Welcome and registration
09:15-10:00	Opening plenary Welcome remarks: Chaouki Abdallah, Executive Vice President for Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States and ITU Kaleidoscope 2019 General Chairman Opening address: Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Keynote speech: Marcelo D'Agostino, Senior Advisor, Information Systems and Digital Health, Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Actions in Health, WHO - Digital health in the Information Society: Working together to leave no one behind [Presentation]
10:00-10:30	Keynote speech Leveraging digital health technology to advance health equity Valerie Montgomery Rice, President and Dean, Morehouse College of Medicine, United States Session chair: Michael Best, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States and Host Committee Co-Chair
10:30-11:00	Keynote speech PANACEA: An Internet of Bio-NanoThings application for early detection and mitigation of infectious diseases [Presentation] Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States Session chair: Daidi Zhong, Chongqing University, China
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:30	Session 1 – ICT infrastructure for healthcare Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair S1.1 5G-enabled health systems: Solutions, challenges and future research trends [Presentation] Di Zhang and Teng Zhang, Zhengzhou University, China; Yunkai Zhai, Zhengzhou University and National Engineering Laboratory for Internet Medical Systems and Applications, China; Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Federal University of Piauí, Brazil and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal; Dalong Zhang, Zhengzhou University, China; Zheng Wen, Keping Yu and Takuro Sato, Waseda University, Japan S1.2 Community healthcare mesh network engineering in white space frequencies [Presentation] Hope Mauwa, University of Mpumalanga, South Africa; Antoine Bagula and Emmanuel Tuyishimire, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; and Tembisa Ngqondi, University of Mpumalanga, South Africa S1.3 Exploration of the non-intrusive optical intervention therapy based on the indoor smart lighting facility [Presentation] Jian Song, Xiaofei Wang, Hongming Zhang and Changyong Pan, Tsinghua University, China S1.4 Access technologies for medical IoT systems [Presentation] Junaid Ahmed Siddiquee, Ericsson, India
13:30-14:30	Lunch break
14:30-15:30	Session 2 – Medical ICT Session chair: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States S2.1 Module structure for foot prosthetic and interface standardization* [Presentation] Yoshitoshi Murata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan; and Tomoki Yamato, DOCOMO Technology, Inc., Japan S2.2 Development of hearing technology with personalized safe listening features [Presentation] Shayan Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University and Audition Technology, LLC, United States; Xuan Xu, Hongfu Liu, Jacqueline Zhang; Joshua N. Bas and Shawn K. Kelly, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:30	Special panel Digital transformation of the health sector: The power of Artificial Intelligence and the potential of unstructured and Big Data for public health Moderator: Marcelo D'Agostino, Senior Advisor, Information Systems and Digital Health, Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, WHO Panelists: The power of AI to support patients, families and healthcare providers [Presentation] Yuri Quintana, Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, United States The potential of unstructured and Big Data for public health [Presentation] Ian Brooks, Director, Center for Health Informatics; Research scientist, School of Information Sciences Faculty Affiliate, NCSA University of Illinois, United States Digital transformation in practice: Challenges and opportunities in Latin America [Presentation] Jennifer Nelson, Digital Health Sector Specialist, Interamerican Development Bank, United States
17:30-18:30	Session 3 – Medical IoT Session chair: Antoine Bagula, University of the Western Cape, South Africa S3.1 Facilitating healthcare IoT standardization with open source: A case study on OCF and IoTivity [Presentation] Hongki Cha, Younghwan Choi and Kangchan Lee, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea (Rep.of) S3.2 Empirical study of medical IoT for patients with intractable diseases at home [Presentation] Kentaro Yoshikawa, Shinshu University and Nagano Prefectural Kiso Hospital, Japan; Masaomi Takizawa, Central Corridor Communications 21, Japan; Akinori Nakamura, Shinshu University, Japan; and Masahiro Kuroda, Goleta Networks Co., Ltd., Japan
Day 2 - Thursday, 5 December

09:00-09:30	Registration
09:30-10:30	Session 4 – Part I – Digital health strategies Session chair: Duncan Sparrell, sFractal Consulting, United States S4.1 Invited paper - Towards international standards for the evaluation of artificial intelligence for health [Presentation] Markus A. Wenzel, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany; and Thomas Wiegand, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany S4.2 Redesigning a basic laboratory information system for the global south* [Presentation] Jung Wook Park, Aditi Shah, Rosa I. Arriaga and Santosh Vempala, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
10:30-11:00	Keynote speech Polio eradication and how technology is reaching the last mile [Presentation] John Vertefeuille, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States Session chair: Pinar Keskinocak, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States and Host Committee member
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:30	Session 4 – Part II – Digital health strategies Session chair: Duncan Sparrell, sFractal Consulting, United States S4.3 #RingingTheAlarm: Chronic "Pilotitis" stunts digital health in Nepal* [Presentation] Ichhya Pant, George Washington University School of Public Health, United States; and Anubhuti Poudyal, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, United States S4.4 Designing national health stack for public health: Role of ICT-based knowledge management system [Presentation] Charru Malhotra, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India; Vinod Kotwal, Department of Telecommunication, India; and Aniket Basu, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:30	Session 5 – Smart technologies for caregivers Session chair: Jian Song, Tsinghua University, China S5.1 Elderly health monitoring system with fall detection using multi-feature based person tracking* [Presentation] Dhananjay Kumar, Aswin Kumar Ravikumar and Vivekanandan Dharmalingham, Anna University, India; and Ved P. Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan S5.2 A healthcare cost calculator for older patients over the first year after renal transplantation [Presentation] Rui Fu, Nicholas Mitsakakis and Peter C. Coyte, University of Toronto, Canada S5.3 Automatic plan generating system for geriatric care based on mapping similarity and global optimization [Presentation] Daidi Zhong, on behalf of Fei Ma, Chengliang Wang and Zhuo Zeng, Chongqing University, China
16:00-18:00	Showcase and reception
Day 3 - Friday, 6 December

09:00-09:30	Registration
09:30-10:30	Session 6 – Data and artificial intelligence era Session chair: Yoshitoshi Murata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan S6.1 Invited paper - Preparing for the AI era under the digital health framework [Presentation] Shan Xu, Chunxia Hu and Dong Min, China Academy of Information and Communication Technology (CAICT), China S6.2 Operationalizing data justice in health informatics* [Presentation] Mamello Thinyane, United Nations University, Macao SAR, China
10.30-11:30	Special panel Policy and legal considerations in healthcare Moderator: Leigh McCook, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States Panelists: Essential considerations for policymakers addressing the role of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare [Presentation] Brian Scarpelli, Senior Global Policy Counsel, Connected Health Initiative, United States Global health impacts of personal data protections under European laws and beyond [Presentation] Ilise Feitshans, Fellow, Law of Nanotechnology, European Scientific Institute Archamps Technopole, France
11:30-11:45	Coffee break
11:45-12:45	Session 7 – Safety and security in healthcare Session chair: Dhananjay Kumar, Anna University, India S7.1 Thought-based authenticated key exchange* [Presentation] Phillip H. Griffin, Griffin Information Security, United States S7.2 Cyber-safety in healthcare IoT [Presentation] Duncan Sparrell, sFractal Consulting, United States
12:45-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:30	Session 8 – Data protection and privacy in healthcare Session chair: Brian Scarpelli, Connected Health Initiative, United States S8.1 Technical and legal challenges for healthcare blockchains and smart contracts [Presentation] Steven A. Wright, Georgia State University, United States S8.2 Design of a credible blockchain-based e-health records (CB-EHRs) platform [Presentation] Lingyu Xu, Antoine Bagula, Omowunmi Isafiade and Kun Ma, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; and Tapiwa Chiwewe, IBM Research Africa, South Africa S8.3 The GDPR transfer regime and modern technologies [Presentation] Melania Tudorica and Trix Mulder, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Wrap-up session Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair Summary of the eleventh ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference (panel with Session Chairs) [Presentation]
17:00-17:30	Closing plenary Best paper awards and young author recognition ceremony Michael Best, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States and Host Committee Co-Chair Elizabeth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States and Host Committee Co-Chair Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair Alessia Magliarditi, Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU [Presentation]

An * denotes papers nominated for best paper award. 