Topic 1: Clinical data management (14.30 to 18.30 on March 17th 2015)

Clinical research has led to a growing demand for patient-specific data and subsequent clinical data sharing and management. Even though some EU legal requirements for data protection and privacy exist, each research project defines an ethical approval process for the use of the patient information and its own policies for sharing the data (internally or externally to the consortium). During the first day of workshop we will discuss the issue of a better and common definition of guidelines for the management, use, and share of clinical data.

Topic2: Long term Sustainability of developed VPH technologies (8.00 to 12.00 on March 18th 2015)

Most of the large VPH projects are developing software components or an entire ICT infrastructure. While the excellence of the tools developed with state of the art technologies is not under discussion, there is more and more the issue of defining and promoting a concrete and effective long-term sustainability plan. On second day, the issue of a possible joint sustainability path in the VPH community will be discussed.