SSQEHP 2012 - SSQEHP12: Systems and Services for Quality Enhancement of Healthcare Provisioning

1st CALL FOR PAPERS

SSQEHP12: Systems and Services for Quality Enhancement of Healthcare Provisioning
at IEEE CBMS 2012: 25th IEEE International Symposium on
COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS
June 20-22, 2012, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Roma, Italy

http://www.cbms2012.org/?special-tracks.html#
The special track on Systems and services for quality enhancement of healthcare
provisioning invites papers for presentation at IEEE CBMS 2012 that contribute
to improving healthcare provisioning through quality management. Owing to the
increasing healthcare costs across the world, most Governments and leading
technology companies are focussing and investing in the area of improving
healthcare quality provisioning, and are interested in systems that conduct
quality assessments or audits. The escalating demand for improving the quality
of healthcare provision has influenced both the public and private health sectors
demanding results and ideas of how to improve quality of healthcare provisioning in
different paradigms. Research for this special session can draw from various disciplines.
This special track aims at bringing together researchers in the
multi-disciplinary area of healthcare quality assessment and enhancement,
and at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of their research
activities. Engineers, scientists, psychologists, clinicians and computer and
cognitive scientists, as well as research project managers involved in such projects
are encouraged to submit papers to this special track.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Services for quality assessment of healthcare provisioning
- Tools, methods, and models for improving the quality of healthcare
- Cross-organizational measurement of performance for quality
- Algorithms or mechanisms contributing to healthcare quality assessment
- Methods or systems to incorporate patient experience into quality improvement
- Systems to assess or evaluate Quality Indicators (QIs) for the quality of care
- Application of quality management tools from other disciplines to healthcare
- Case studies related to performance and quality evaluation
- Personalised services for quality evaluation of healthcare

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due: January 15, 2012.
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012.
Camera ready papers: April 20, 2012.
Pre-registration deadline: April 20, 2012.
CBMS 2012 Symposium: June 20-22, 2012.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and
original results.
The papers must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format
(ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf)
and should not exceed the length of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages.
LaTeX (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip)
or Microsoft Word (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.dot)
templates can be used when preparing the papers. Please, note that only PDF format of submissions is allowed.
Electronic manuscripts should be submitted via the EasyChair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbms201...) web
submission system (please select Special Track on Systems
and Services for Quality Enhancement of Healthcare Provisioning).

TRACK CHAIR

Aisha Naseer
Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited, UK
For further questions please contact Aisha Naseer
(aisha.naseer-AT-uk.fujitsu.com)