This award is for travel support for up to ten students to the 2013 USENIX Workshop on Health Information Technologies (HealthTech13).
Previous USENIX workshops on Health Information Technologies (HIT) have traditionally provided a forum for discussion of aggressively innovative and potentially disruptive ideas on all aspects of medical and health security and privacy, including technology and policy. This year's 2013 USENIX Workshop on Health Information Technologies, called HealthTech13, will be held in conjunction with the annual USENIX Security conference in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 12, 2013. Its focus differs from previous USENIX workshops on HIT by its broader scope that is intended to encourage the development of new technologies that generally improve the quality and safety of healthcare, as well as the access to it. The workshop audience is similarly broadened to encourage greater cross-disciplinary engagement by researchers and practitioners in technology, medicine, and policy communities across academia, government and industry.
The workshop will offer several means by which participants can interact and engage. In addition to keynote and technical research presentations, there will be a poster session and a best research paper award, which will both be a first for this workshop series, and a continuation of last year's successful session for announcing research progress on hard problems. The topics to be covered in HealthTech13 include architectures for large-scale health information systems, and health information exchanges, medical devices and body area networks, home and assisted living monitoring systems, privacy enhancing technologies, regulatory and policy issues, telemedicine, and mobile health technologies, among others.
The 2014 USENIX Summit on Health Information Technologies (HealthTech '14) brings together individuals to discuss the safety, security, privacy, and interoperability of health information technologies. The HealthTech '14 technical program included a panel, keynote address, and several paper presentations. The workshop was held in San Diego, CA, on 19 August 2014. The USENIX Association offers stipends to most conferences we host. Any student enrolled full-time at an accredited university or college is welcome to apply for a stipend. Stipends have two components: registration costs and expenses. For those students selected, USENIX covers the registration costs by providing students with a complimentary registration code. For the expense portion, USENIX provides a check to assist the student with costs related to airfare and hotel. Variations in the amount of offers depends on how far a student will need to travel and the amount they request (i.e., some students may stay with a friend in the town of the conference, and therefore, do not need the hotel expense). We confirm that the students register and attend the event. We do not require that students provide us with a detailed accounting of how the funds were spent: Students who are participating in the conference - e.g. presenting a poster Students whose areas of study significantly overlap with the conference topics and who write a concise essay (supporting statement) outlining their research First-time applicants and those who have not received a stipend in the past 12 months Students who are willing to volunteer at the conference (this generally consists of writing a summary of technical session(s) for ;login:, the USENIX journal) Students from institutions not traditionally represented at USENIX events Student members of the Association (not required) Class level and financial need USENIX received 21 stipend applications from students, and five were funded by the NSF. There were 13 total students, and 45 total attendees at HealthTech '14. All NSF grant recipients were enrolled at US universities. USENIX appreciates the financial support of the NSF, which allowed us to grant awards to many more qualified applicants than we would have been able to otherwise. Of the 45 total attendees at HealthTech '14, 37 were from the US. Non-US attendees came from Chile, Guinea, Japan, Norway, and Switzerland. The 2014 Workshop on Health Information Technologies (HealthTech '14), linked with the USENIX Security conference, brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in health security and privacy. Security and privacy are important goals for today’s and tomorrow’s technologies. This workshop is intended as a forum for lively discussion of aggressively innovative and potentially disruptive ideas on all aspects of medical and health security and privacy. A fundamental goal of the workshop is to promote cross-disciplinary interactions between the fields of technology, medicine, and policy. Participation in HealthTech and similar conferences is a valuable and important part of the graduate school experience. It provides students with the opportunity to interact with more senior researchers in the field, and exposes students to leading edge work in the field. The support requested in this proposal will enable the participation of students who would otherwise be unable to attend HealthTech. Website: HealthTech 2014 Summit Program. www.usenix.org/conference/healthtech14/summit-program. The title, presenter, and abstract of each presentation is listed on this website. To access the video, click on the title of the presentation.
