IoTBDH 2017 - 2nd International Workshop on Internet of Things and Big Data for Healthcare (IoTBDH-2017)

Significant advancement in the Internet of Things (IoT) has generated a large number of opportunities for innovation in the field of healthcare. Due to the exponential growth of wearable devices and mobile applications, a promising trend in healthcare appears that the IoT enabled technology is transferring the traditional hubs of healthcare to the personalized healthcare systems. Successful utilization of IoT enabled technology in healthcare facilitates efficient diagnose and treatment, low costs, improvement of doctor-patient relationships, personalized treatment and enhanced sustainability.
In addition, the big data created by IoT are fast expanded with valuable and crucial information for personalised healthcare and decision making. These data contain not only a sheer volume of long-term health information, but also complex, diverse and rich context of the health information. Effectively and efficiently managing, analysing, visualising and exploring these big data becomes necessary and brings knowledge and intelligence of self-empowerment to the IoT users for supporting wiser clinical decision-making and personalised policy formulation.
However, empowering the utility of IoT enabled technology and promoting big-data as a source of innovation in healthcare systems is still challenging due to the lack of standardization of IoT system architectures, heterogeneity of wearable devices connected, multi-dimensionality and high volume of data set, and high demand for interoperability.
IoTBDH-2017 will be held on 21-23 June 2017 in Exeter, UK. The goal of IoTBDH workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry into a forum, to present the state-of-the-art research and applications in utilizing IoT and big data technology for healthcare by presenting efficient scientific and engineering solutions, addressing the needs and challenges for integration with new technologies, and providing visions for future research and development.
Scope and topics: The second IoTBDH focuses on five very active research fields in healthcare , but is not limited to:
Sensors and IoT system architecture development for healthcare
Sensor design
Sensor or IoT system evaluation
New architectures of sensor or IoT system
Life-logging devices and technologies
Security and privacy
Cloud computing
Cloud technologies for IoT healthcare
Service-oriented technologies for IoT healthcare
Evaluations of Cloud-based healthcare applications
New cloud infrastructure development for IoT healthcare
Knowledge discovery and data mining
IoT Data management
Mining and exploration framework for healthcare data
Digital health
Knowledge discovery on IoT healthcare data
Predictive modelling for improving healthcare
Big data analytics, machine learning algorithms and scalable algorithms
Novel visualization methods for health data
IoT data integration and management
Network communication for health sensor data
Wearable sensor and data integration for healthcare
Standards and interoperability in IoT healthcare
Data fusion, integration, knowledge management and engineering
Emerging informatics framework for big-data
Big data and analytic for improving management of healthcare institutions Healthcare
Data security and privacy
Robotics applications
Robotics-based healthcare applications
Robotics as IoT for supporting healthcare
Emerging IoT and Big Data to Robotics for healthcare
Cloud Robotics for healthcare