smartech4health 2012 - Special Track on EMERGING SMART TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERSONALISED HEALTHCARE

25th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
June 20-22, 2012, Rome, Italy
Special Track on
** EMERGING SMART TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERSONALISED HEALTHCARE **
http://smartech4health.cs.ru.nl/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Scope and Topics

The latest demographic changes worldwide and advances in information and
communication technologies have motivated the development of healthcare
systems moving the point of care closer to the patients allowing them
more active involvement. To guarantee maximum health benefits to patients,
and reduce the amount of effort and costs for the care givers, these
systems should be smarter than the former telemedicine solutions lacking
support for personalised disease management due to the intrinsic complexity
and uncertainty in the medical domain.
Here "smart" implies that the system is capable of interpreting information
within context, which can be broadly considered as patient-, disease-, or
environment-specific, and attempts to solve problems at a level equivalent
to or even better than human experts. The intelligence can be embedded in
various ways, for example, by designing and implementing decision-support
models, which can run in a stand-alone computing device such as a
smartphone, by enabling systemÕs adaptation through user parameters, by
embedding alerting modules into sensors or medical devices that can process
measurements and warn of changes in a patient's condition. Any development
in this direction, of course, faces challenges and requires enhanced efforts
with respect to knowledge acquisition and representation, secure and
user-tailored system design, evaluation and affordable deployment.
The aim of this special track is to provide a dedicated platform
specifically designed for researchers, engineers and practitioners
to present and discuss their recent work and innovations in
the interdisciplinary area of smart healthcare technologies,
and to consider potential collaborations and future directions
for development.
This special track seeks papers that describe original and
unpublished contributions covering but not limited to
the topics of interest listed below:
o Intelligent care assistants
o Patient-device interaction and personalised user interfaces
o Context-aware monitoring devices, sensors and networking
o Home-based diagnosis and treatment support
o Remote chronic disease management
o Advanced healthcare services
o Smart mobile health
o Intelligent approaches to healthcare delivery process
o Preventive and health screening services at distance
o User interfaces and interaction models
o Quality evaluation criteria and frameworks

Important dates and Submission

o Deadline for submissions January 15, 2012
o Notification of acceptance March 15, 2012
o Final camera-ready manuscript April 10, 2012
o CBMS 2012 Symposium June 20-22, 2012
Papers should be written in English, following the IEEE two-column format
and should not exceed the length of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages.
For more details please see the CBMS submission guidelines:
http://www.cbms2012.org/?paper-submission.html
Paper submission is electronic via the CBMS web submission system:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=...
When submitting a paper to this track, please choose its title.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings,
and will be published by the IEEE.
Best submissions will be considered for possible publication in a special issue
of IEEE Intelligent Systems.
At least one author of each accepted track paper must register
for the symposium.

Track chairs and Contact

Marina Velikova (marinav-AT-cs.ru.nl), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Peter Lucas (peterl-AT-cs.ru.nl), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Program committee

For the complete list of Committee members please refer to the track website:
http://smartech4health.cs.ru.nl/pc.php