SHB 2012 - International Workshop on Smart Health and Wellbeing 2012 (SHB 2012)

In recent years, a significant effort has been placed on advancing information technology for effective healthcare and wellness in both academic and industrial applications. There is increased effort to transform reactive care to proactive and preventive care, clinic-centric to patient-centered practice, training-based interventions to globally aggregated evidence, and episodic response to continuous well-being monitoring and maintenance. To successfully address the challenge of smart health and wellbeing we need to include the following (a) an interoperable, digital infrastructure of shareable health data and knowledge, (b) utilizing diverse data to provide automated and augmented insight, discovery, and evidence-based health and wellness decision support, (c) a cyber-based empowering of patients and healthy individuals that enables them to play a substantial role in their own health and treatment, (d) monitoring and assisting individuals using intelligent systems (including sensors, devices, and robotics) to maintain function and independence. SHB 2012 is organized to develop a platform for authors to discuss fundamental principles, algorithms or applications of intelligent data acquisition, processing and analysis of healthcare data. We are particularly interested in information and knowledge management papers, in which the approaches are accompanied by an in-depth experimental evaluation with real world data.
Christopher C. Yang (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA)
Hsinchun Chen (University of Arizona, USA)
Howard Wactlar (National Science Foundation, USA)
Carlo K. Combi (Universita' degli Studi di Verona, Italy)
Xuning Tang (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA)
http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/shb2012