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Key Parameters for Identifying Electronic Health Records Without Violating Privacy
There is a critical need to identify electronic health records without compromising the privacy and confidentiality of patient data. This white paper discusses important possible parameters associated with electronic health records that could be used for this identification. The core objective of this white paper is to set a stage…
A Guide to Human Rights Impact Assessments for Organizations Involved in the AI Lifecycle
This white paper examines the need for and the challenges associated with human rights impact assessments tailored to AI.
Reconceptualizing The Ethical Guidelines for Mental Health Apps: Values From Feminism, Disability Studies, and Intercultural Ethics
Rethinking the ethical responsibilities of mental health app designers through the prisms of feminism, disability studies, and intercultural philosophy leads us to a more global and inclusive set of ethical considerations in app design. This white paper explores what existing guidelines for the regulation of mental health apps are missing.…
Meta Issues in Cybersecurity--Law and Cybersecurity
As part of the IEEE Meta Issues in Cybersecurity project, this paper focuses on the legal aspects of cybersecurity. It provides an overview of the ways in which law creates rules, responsibilities, and obligations relevant to cybersecurity, and the limitations of the law in this context. While there is no…
Predictive Maintenance in the Context Of Functional Safety
The White Paper Study Group’s “Prognosis” supported by the IEEE FSSC prepared this paper to investigate the methodology of prognosis or preventive maintenance in the context of functional safety and mission-critical applications. The working group began work in April 2022 to identify potential uses and gaps in the state of…
Integrated New Standard for Smart Multimodal Corridors
The compounding effects of COVID-19, climate change, ongoing wars, political tensions, and trade restrictions are exacerbating the global food crisis, and urgent actions are needed to holistically strengthen the resilience and sustainability of agrifood systems globally. This paper outlines the need to address and streamline the transportation and logistics system…
Asset Identification for Electronic Design IP
The Accellera Security Annotation for Electronic Design Integration (SA-EDI) standard provides a framework for producing security assurance collateral for an IP. The root of the standard and its workflow is the identification of assets for a given IP. Once the assets are identified, the corresponding threats and attack surfaces can…
IEEE 802® Networks for Vertical Applications
This white paper aims to collect and spell out commonalities of IEEE 802 technologies and set the scene in relation to other well-known communication standards of similar behavior.
Understanding An Electronic Health Record System and Its Applicable Data Quality Measures
The purpose of this paper is to define key terms associated with electronic health records and provide a necessary guideline for understanding the need for improving the quality of electronic health records as identified and discussed by the Industry Connect Work-group on Data Quality of Electronic Health Records. Specifically, defining…
Position, Posture, and Pose Definitions for 3D Body Processing
The interchangeable use of the terms position, posture, and pose causes confusion for 3D body processing (3DBP) applications. This paper reviews current definitions and contextual use of these terms to suggest standardized nomenclature for posture and pose. This paper also reviews and discusses possible standard definitions for location, body regions,…