SEH 2021

Healthcare systems in many countries are leveraging emerging technologies (e.g., cloud computing, big data, mobile apps, data science, biosensors, and wearable devices) and modern software engineering approaches to ensure continuous quality improvement in the presence of rapid change and increasing challenges. Software-intensive systems are seen as a key enabler for healthcare system reform in many jurisdictions with major investments and incentives to propel this transformation. At the same time, interoperability barriers continue to impede the composition of emergent healthcare systems, where different types of healthcare providers from different organizations need to coordinate efforts to deliver complex care. In this scenario, a community involving researchers and practitioners of software engineering for healthcare has emerged and shall continue to grow and mature, addressing diverse themes and their intersections.

Accepted Papers

Call for Papers

This workshop will focus on discussing and establishing the theoretical foundations of software engineering for healthcare to develop and evolve complex health systems, paving the way for a more structured community effort. We expect to identify and characterize research that has effectively contributed to the patients’ quality of life and/or treatment outcome, pointing out further research directions. Finally, our goal is to continue developing an interdisciplinary, international community with an effective research, educational and industrial agenda for supporting software engineering in the healthcare sector. Hence, this workshop will focus on the combination of the following themes, but not limited to:

Software engineering: methods and techniques for modeling, designing, developing, and evaluating healthcare systems, software architecture extraction and description of healthcare systems, reference architectures, continuous architecting, architecting families of products, context awareness and autonomous computing, technical debt, software quality, development processes, user interface, system interoperability, cloud native applications, safety, security, sustainability, data governance, workflow integration, compliance and regulatory issues, and data analytics;

Healthcare systems: eHealth, mHealth, telehealth, electronic health records systems, medical devices, biomedical data, healthcare performance management, quality of care, medication adherence and health monitoring, electronic prescription, healthcare management systems, ageing users, standards, and clinical decision support. We look for papers that explore the above topics and the role that software engineering plays in creating solutions to address them. We are expressly interested in submissions from researchers in developing and underserved countries. We are also particularly interested in emerging trends in current practice submitted by those working in the healthcare domain.

Considering these themes, this workshop represents an important contribution for the software engineering and healthcare communities in terms of in-depth discussions and lessons learned, establishing a comprehensive research agenda for software engineering for healthcare.