HEALTHCOM 2015 - 17th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE HEALTHCOM’ 2015)

17th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE HEALTHCOM’ 2015)
Boston, USA? October 14-17, 2015
http://www.ieee-healthcom.org
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES:
IEEE HealthCom 2015 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. It aims at bringing together interested parties from around the world working in the healthcare field to exchange ideas, discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and develop collaborations. eHealth is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and the related fields, including health-care related services, surveillance, literature, education, knowledge and research, both at the local site and at a distance. It will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. The adoption of e-Health technologies in medical fields creates huge opportunities; however, a number of challenges still need to be addressed to build reliable, secure, and efficient networks or platforms with great flexibility.
Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the e-Health area.
TOPICS:
The topics include but are not limited to:
Medical, Biomedical and Health Informatics
Electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic prescription
Data preprocessing, cleansing, management and mining
Data quality assessment and improvement
Medical imaging
Computer-aided detection, hypothesis generation and diagnosis
Evidence-based medicine
Evolutionary and longitudinal patient and disease models
Clinical workflow
Medication adherence and health monitoring
Smart health and big data
Devices
High-confidence medical devices
Integration of medical devices with e-Health
Medical device interoperability
Wearable devices
In/on/around-body sensors and actuators
Biosensors at the micro/nano-scale
Smart garments/textiles
Wireless energy transfer
Energy harvesting
Communications and Networking
Communication/network infrastructures, architectures and protocols for e-Health
Antennas and propagation
Proximity-based communication, group communication and social networks
Power-efficient communication
Ultra wideband communication
Delay-tolerant, fault-tolerant and reliable communication
Cognitive communication for medical bands
In-hospital networking, body area networking and cloud-integrated networking
Software-defined networks and network management
Nanoscale/molecular communications
Network coding and error detection/correction
Signal/Data Processing and Systems
Context awareness and situation awareness
Image/video processing and computer/robot vision
Internet of things, Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing
Augmented reality and human-computer interaction
Motion detection and activity recognition
User modeling and personalization
Robotics for e-Health
Computing/storage infrastructures for e-Health such as clouds and virtualization
Software, systems and performance engineering for e-Health
Services and Applications
e-Health services/applications for physical and mental health; for example, in acute care, chronic care, mental health care, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, prosthetics, elderly/nursing care, smart homes and hospitals, and rural/wilderness practice.
e-Health services/applications for sports and exercise; for example, in training prescription and feedback, concussion detection/monitoring, life-logging and fitness monitoring.
e-Health services/applications for public health; for example, disease prevention, pandemic preparedness, epidemiological interventions and smart cities.
e-Health services/applications for extreme environments; for example, in fire fighting, disaster response, evacuation assistance, medical triage, space travel/exploration, deep diving and deep sea exploration.
Quality of experience (QoE) with e-Health services/applications.
Security, privacy and trust for e-Health services/applications
Emerging cloud-based services/applications including health clouds/grids
PAPER SUBMISSION
Perspective authors are invited to submit their papers in the following categories:
Regular papers: Up to 6 pages
Short papers: Up to 4 pages
Demo papers: Up to 4 pages
Poster papers: Up to 2 pages
Papers must follow the IEEE paper template. Please visit http://www.ieee-healthcom.org/ for for detailed submission instructions. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing procedure (with at least 3 independent anonymous reviews).
The authors of regular and short papers will deliver oral presentations. The authors of demo and poster papers will deliver system demonstrations and poster presentations, respectively.
IMPORTANT DATES
Regular paper submission due: May 15, 2015
Short, demo and poster paper submission due: July 15, 2015
Notification for regular papers: July 30, 2015
Notification for short, demo and poster papers: August 10, 2015
Camera ready papers: August 30, 2015
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and and indexed by IEEExplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). Selected papers will be considered for publication in leading journals such as:
International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications
IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience
EAI Transactions on Body Area Networks
Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal