MOBIHEALTH 2010 - 1st International ICST Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MOBIHEALTH 2010)

MOBIHEALTH 2010

1st International ICST Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare
18-20 October 2010, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

http://mobihealth.name

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPONSORS

Sponsored by ICST
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET

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SCOPE

The objectives of the conference are to advance medical diagnosis, treatment, and patient care through applications of wireless communication, mobile computing and sensing technologies. MOBIHEALTH 2010 provides an international forum to bring together researchers and experts from academia, healthcare organizations, research institutions, and industrial enterprises working in the field of wireless communication and healthcare to share ideas and discuss cutting-edge research, present experience with recent developments in healthcare delivery, and to provide practical guidance to policy makers and the setting of applicable standards.

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TOPICS

Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge, understanding and practice in the interdisciplinary design of efficient protocols and technologies to help implement and provide advanced mobile health care applications.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

* Emergency and disaster applications

* Specialty and site specific applications

* Wearable, outdoor and home based applications

* Sensing of vital signs and signatures

* Intra-body propagation and communication

* Mobile devices for patient monitoring

* Measurement and monitoring technologies

* Decision support algorithms for sensor analysis

* Transmission of patient data

* Ad hoc and sensor systems and networks

* Real-time transmission of multiple medical data

* Healthcare telemetry and telemedicine

* Secure and high quality networks

* Ad hoc wireless networks for enhanced monitoring

* Remote diagnosis and patient management

* Accuracy and reliability of diagnoses

* Home and rural environments

* Novel mobile encryption technologies

* Coding and communication standards

* Identity and privacy enhancing technologies

* Mobile data management and processing

* Wireless access in ubiquitous systems

* Wearable computing and communication

* Wireless and wearable devices for pervasive healthcare

* Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare delivery

* Sensor networks for pervasive healthcare

* Patient monitoring in diverse environments (hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living)

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PUBLICATION

The Proceedings of MOBIHEALTH 2010 will be published in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST), appear in SpringerLink and will be referenced in the ICST digital library, the European Union Digital Library (EUDL).

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SUBMISSION

Papers should be submitted to www.assyst-online.org by 30 April 2010. The preferred length for initial submissions is 4 pages, however, the length of final papers should not exceed 8 pages including all figures, tables and references. Extra pages will incur additional charges. The papers must be submitted in PDF format. All papers will be reviewed. All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptances will be provided by 30 June.
For submission instructions, please visit http://mobihealth.name/submission.shtml

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 30 April 2010

Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2010

Camera-ready deadline: 30 July 2010

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
James C. Lin, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Technical Program Chair
Konstantina S. Nikita, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Local Arrangements Chair
George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

For a complete list of committee and board members, please visit http://www.mobihealth.name/orgncomm.shtml