CoHeB 2016 - 4th International Workshop on Collaboration Technologies and Systems in Healthcare and Biomedical Fields (CoHeB 2016)

Collaborative technologies are pervading every field of the modern society, influencing the way we act, work and socially interact. Collaboration technologies and systems in healthcare and in general in biomedical fields create new ways to develop, provide and improve the quality of health services. The potentialities disclosed by collaborative technologies range from education to direct clinical applications (including home monitoring, telerehabilitation, remote surgery, etc.), passing through remote consultation and second opinion, electronic health record and patient’s data sharing, development of social virtual spaces and communities for patients, and many more. Collaborative technologies in healthcare are necessary for the development of telehealth and telemedicine services but can also be used to facilitate both inclusion and participation for disadvantaged categories such as the elderly, the people with disabilities, etc. They cut costs while increasing access and providing convenience. Broadening to the biomedical field, including biomedical research, collaboration technologies are also used in bioinformatics and life sciences.
CoHeB workshop aims at providing a scientific forum for disseminating and discussing the latest advances and research results in the development and/or application of collaboration technologies and systems in healthcare and biomedical fields. The main objective is to bring together researchers, scientists as well as practitioners from academia, industry, government, and research institutions in a multidisciplinary environment where novel ideas and recent achievements can be presented, fostering the creation of new networks and collaborations among ICT researchers and health professionals. The workshop will include a keynote speech, contributed paper sessions and demos, as part of the main CTS2016 Conference. Authors are invited to send their original research works covering aspects related to the following topics:
CoHeB topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
Collaborative e-Health
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
Collaborative Distributed Systems and Sensor Networks in Healthcare
Collaborative Telemedicine and Telehealth Platforms and Applications
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Collaborative Applications
Wearable Health Sensors and Informatics
Clinical Applications using Collaborative Technologies
Evaluation of Healthcare IT Collaborative Platforms
Collaborative Aspects in Remote Clinical Procedures and Surgery
Collaborative Assistive Technologies
Collaborative ICT frameworks for Aging and Disability
Collaborative Human-Machine Interaction
Collaborative Robots and Human-Robot Interaction in Healthcare
Psychological Implications of Collaborative Systems in Healthcare
Collaborative Systems for Medical and Nursing Education & Informatics
Collaborative Serious Games for Healthcare Applications
Collaborative Decision Making and Decision Support Systems
Collaboration in Emergency Health Service
Collaboration in Disaster Recovery from Healthcare Perspective
Design and Development of Methodologies for Collaborative Healthcare IT Systems
Cloud Computing in Healthcare and Biomedical Fields
Big Data Analytics in Healthcare and Biomedicine
Human-Machine Interfaces for Special Needs Persons
Collaborative Systems for Data Mining in Healthcare and Biomedicine
Databases and Data Warehousing in Bioinformatics and Healthcare
Knowledge Management and Discovery for Healthcare
Semantics and Ontologies for Healthcare and Bioinformatics
Interoperable Health Information Exchange
Medical Data Visualization Issues in Collaborative Scenarios
Electronic Health Records and Standards
Privacy and Data Security in Collaborative Healthcare and Biomedicine Environments
Collaborative Software Systems in Healthcare and Medicine
Collaborative Healthcare Management Systems
Health and Medical Collaboratories
Collaborative Healthcare Projects Development
Collaborative Technologies for Health Technology Assessment