PervasiveHealth 2012 - 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
Pervasive Health 2012
May 21-24, 2012
San Diego, California, United States
http://pervasivehealth.org/2012/show/home


HIGHLIGHTS

- The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT
- All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Xplore Digital Library
- Keynote speaker will be Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science, UCLA

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference Aims
The overall goal of the conference remains tightly coupled with the original aims of the field, to address a set of related technologies and concepts that help integrate healthcare more seamlessly into everyday life, regardless of space and time. To achieve this, it is necessary to take a multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and development. The Pervasive Healthcare Community has a broad scope of research topics and concerns: identifying and understanding problems from a technological, social, and medical perspective (with a particular emphasis on understanding and supporting patient needs); design, implementation, and evaluation of supporting hardware and software infrastructures, algorithms, and applications; and organizational strategies that facilitate integration of Pervasive Healthcare Technology into the healthcare enterprise.

The 2012 Pervasive Healthcare conference aims to gather technology experts, practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based technologies, standards and procedures.

The theme of this year's conference is: Coping with the Challenges and Opportunities within Pervasive E-Healthcare (COPE), with a special focus on pervasive healthcare management and its ability to deliver timely, quality based information to medical practitioners in providing high levels of patient care. The challenges and opportunities within e-Healthcare are immense. A multidisciplinary and coordinated approach is needed from 1) user requirements, 2) technology development and 3) application integration, to help deliver a successful pervasive healthcare management system.

Traditional healthcare environments are extremely complex and challenging to manage, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies seek to respond to a variety of these pressures by successfully integrating them within existing health care environments.

Technologies, standards and procedures on their own provide little and or no meaningful service. It is essential that pervasive healthcare environments, through a combined approach of data collection, data correlation and data presentation, assist health care professionals in delivering high levels of patient care, and empower individuals and their families for self-care and health management.

Contributions
We welcome contributions from the following fields:
* Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions
* Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work(CSCW)
* Sensing Technologies and Distributed Computing
* Hardware and Software Infrastructures
* Pervasive, mobile and ubiquitous computing

Each paper will be blind peer-reviewed by members of the Pervasive Health 2011 program committee with additional expert reviewers drawn from relevant research domains.
Submissions will be evaluated based on their originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation.
The paper should make explicit how the work offers unique and substantial contribution beyond what has already been published or submitted.

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

Pervasive Healthcare Management

* Challenges surrounding data quality
* Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver needs, health professional needs, organisational needs
* Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare
* Business cases and cost issues
* Security and privacy issues
* Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare
* Legal and regulatory issues
* Insurance payments and cost aspects
* Staffing and resource management

Understanding users

* User requirements
* Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver needs, health professional needs, organizational needs
* Usability and acceptability
* Barriers to adoption, and enablers
* Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion
* Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services
* Patient empowerment
* Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements
* Inclusive research and design: engaging underrepresented populations

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

* Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data
* Activity recognition
* Fall detection
* User modelling and personalization
* Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environments

Technology

* Sensor-based decision support systems
* Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors
* Wearable and implantable sensor integration
* Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments
* Data mining medical patient records
* Software architectures e.g. Agent, SOA, distributed middlewares
* Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Applications

* Autonomous systems to support independent living
* Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies
* Telemedicine
* Chronic disease and health risk management applications
* Health promotion and disease prevention
* Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring
* Continuous vs event-driven monitoring of patients
* Smart homes and hospitals
* Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient data
* Wellbeing and lifestyle support
* Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision impairments
* Systems to support caregivers

Type of Submissions

All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. For furtehr details, please visit: http://pervasivehealth.org/2012/show/cf-papers

Pervasive Healthcare Doctoral Consortium

The DC offers Ph.D. students the opportunity to engage with other doctoral students and to receive feedback from experienced reviewers and scholars.
Pervasive health is a challenging and rapidly developing area of research wherethe exchange of ideas and discussion of concepts, directly with other researchers, is an effective way of gaining new insights and identifying opportunities for possible collaborations. The doctoral consortium will enable doctoral students to present and reflect on their work and receive feedback from a panel of experts. For more information, please visit http://pervasivehealth.org/2012/show/cf-panels

Important dates

Paper Submission: February 16th, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: April 12th, 2012
Camera Ready: April 20th, 2012
Conference Dates: 21May - Workshops, 22-24 Main Track

Organising Committee

Conference General Chair
Rosa Arriaga, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
Technical Program Chairs
Monica Tentori, UABC, Ensenada, Mexico
Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada
Jakob Bardram, ITU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Local Chair
Nadir Weibel, University of California, San Diego, USA
Publication Chair
Aleksandar Matic , CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy
Publicity Chair
Lizbeth Escobedo, UABC, Mexico
Website Chair
Andrea De Luca, Disseminate.eu, Ispra , Italy
Workshops Chairs: Thomas Ploetz, Newcastle University, UK/ Georgia Tech, USA; Octavian Postolache
Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Lisbon, Portugal
Conference Coordinator
Justina Senkus, ICST, Ghent, Belgium

Technical Program Committee

Kay Connelly, Indiana University, USA
Madhu Reddy, Penn State University, USA, Madhu Reddy
Oliver Amft, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Upkar Varshney, Georgia State University, USA
Katie A. Siek, University of Colorado, USA
Jesus Favela, CICESE
Lena Mamykina, Columbia University
Bert Anrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Marcela D. Rodriguez, UABC
Silvia Gabrielli - Create Net
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Parisa Eslambolchilar, Swansea University
Babak Taati, University of Toronto
Anne Marie-Piper, UCSD
Venet Osmani, Create-Net, Italy
Julie Kientz, University of Washington
Karen Cheng, Charles Drew University
Rebecca Randell, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, UK
Karen Tang, UCI
Nuria Olivier, TID, Spain

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Kelly Caine
Indiana University, USA
Oscar Mayora
CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

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