HBMeU 2012 - 4th e-Health and Environment Conference in the Middle East

The theme of the 4th e-Health and Environment Conference under the HBMeU 2012 Annual Congress is “Building an Innovative and Competitive Vision for e-Health and Environment” in the 21st Century. In the current state of high economic pressures, rapidly evolving healthcare technologies and documented environmental risks, the need for innovative visions becomes a priority. Previously implemented strategies fell apart form achieving the desired outcomes and calls for a new vision that takes all factors into account.

The 4th e-Health and Environment Conference will provide unique opportunities for researchers to build this new vision through tackling specific healthcare and environmental topics. These topics are presented in the following section which represents priority topics for the conference sessions. Although topics have been categorized into healthcare and environmental ones, this by no means intend to separate both concepts, on the contrary, topics merging both fields will be appreciated

We invite all those engaged in e-Health and Environment issues to share their experiences and practices by submitting research papers, case studies, poster presentations, students brief papers & reviews, in accordance to the following themes:

Environmental Related Issues:

Environmental awareness for economic competitiveness
Updates on biomedical waste management
Innovative techniques to combat desertification and water problems
Progressing with meeting and enforcing auto emission standards
Environmental standards and competitiveness of key economic sectors
e-Health Related Issues:

Enhance competitiveness of healthcare sector through e-health solutions
Information infrastructure to improve health and environment
e-Learning and competitiveness in the healthcare market
Caring for the e- Community
Need for e-health governance to enhance competitiveness
Responsiveness to patient needs for market competitiveness