MCPS 2015 - Special Session on Medical Cyber-Physical Systems for home telemonitoring

Medical Cyber Physical Systems (MCPS) represent a new generation of dependable, interconnected, intelligent systems of medical devices that enable a holistic treatment of patients. MCPS are recognized as a separate class of Cyber-Physical Systems due to a tight integration of embedded control of the networked medical devices with complex and often life-critical human physical processes.
Telemonitoring as a part of telemedicine is of rising importance, diversity and scale of medical services. It enables an early recognition of threatening symptoms, long-term monitoring and care in the comfort of patients' homes, using information transfer instead of costly transport of patients or physicians. Telemonitoring has already been deployed for telecare of elder people, emergency monitoring, and surveillance of chronic diseases. Attempts could be observed in home longitudinal telecare of diabetes and follow up of high-risk pregnancies.
MCPS by presenting a new level of integrated network intelligence offer possibilities for radically new telemedical services. The PDeS 2015 Special Session on Medical Cyber-Physical Systems for home telemonitoring is soliciting papers that address design issues of such dependable telemedical systems, their human-machine interfaces, interoperability of medical devices, as well as descriptions of new scenarios for telemedical applications at home.