CEHPSA 2011 - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Consumer eHealth Platforms, Services and Applications (CeHPSA)

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Deadline: September 01, 2010 | Date: January 08, 2011-January 11, 2011

Venue/Country: Las Vegas, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-08-24 01:01:53 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

and Applications (CeHPSA)

8th or 11th January, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada

Satellite Workshop of 8th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking

Conference

(IEEE CCNC 2011)

Healthcare globally is going through a major transition that promises to

provide the unprecedented delivery of services in new and novel ways.

Medical infrastructures, built on advances in information and

communication technologies (ICT), aim to fully distribute services in a

much more flexible way. This will enable the seamless flow of

information within and amongst medical facilities, practitioners and

service users. ICT will ensure that services are highly available and

provide enriched information. Multiple modes of interaction will be

possible and this will all happen regardless of a user's location or the

devices they use. This vision is commonly referred to as eHealth and is

one of the most rapidly growing areas in health today with an estimated

annual budget of Euros 17.4 billion in Europe and $36 billion in the US.

The drive towards this growth in interest can be directly attributed to

the fact that healthcare is becoming increasingly more difficult to

sustain because of the rising costs associated with people living longer

and an increase in diseases, such as Alzheimer's and dementia. This

presents a unique opportunity to develop new and novel platforms

services and applications that exploit information within and across the

healthcare sector to significantly improve the quality of patient care

and improve and execute clinical processes more efficiently. This will

help to form a closer relationship between healthcare providers and

service users and fundamentally help support people in their daily

lives. Furthermore, it addresses the growing problem of healthcare

seclusion amongst rural areas and low-income nations where they too,

through eHealth, can benefit from life-critical information, help,

support and training. All this has the ability to empower people and

encourage personal consumer healthcare beyond what is currently

possible.

Nonetheless, due to the potential criticality of healthcare and the

complex coordination and delivery of healthcare services it is not

surprising that we have not seen widespread adoption of ICT in health.

Yet eHealth presents a unique and high impacting application of ICT. The

healthcare domain is sensitive to change and this will require new

processes, methodologies and tools and this comes at a time where

sustainable health is becoming increasingly more difficult. The workshop

seeks workshop proposal submissions (consisting of a paper) on all

theoretical and practical aspects of next generation consumer eHealth

platforms, services and applications, as well as experimental studies of

fielded systems on topics including, but not limited to, those shown

below:

* Wearable and implantable sensors

* Sensor Networks for ubiquitous and pervasive healthcare

* Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data

* Wireless Communications in Healthcare

* Energy harvesting

* Wearable home based health monitoring technologies

* Ambient Assistive Living

* Wireless Homecare

* Mobile Healthcare (mHealth)

* Personal Healthcare (pHealth)

* Stream reasoning algorithms for behaviour and activity

monitoring

* Semantic Web and Healthcare

* Standards and Frameworks

* Interoperability

* Human to machine interfaces

* Middleware for eHealth

* Service and Device Discovery

* Telemedicine

* Clinical Applications and evaluations

* Healthcare applications for chronic disease management

* Health promotion and disease prevention

* Support solutions for cognitive decline

* Support for physical defects

* Usability issues

* Assistive Devices

* Activity Recognition

* Telerehabilitation

* Electronic Patient Record

* Implementations and case studies

* Bioinformatics

* Clinical Decision Support Systems

* Clinical Informatics

* Consumer Health Informatics

* eHealth Grids

* Privacy and Security Issues in Healthcare

* Data Protection

Guidelines for Submission

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently

under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been

previously published. The paper should be used as the basis for a 20 -

30 minute workshop presentation.

Manuscripts should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard

conference format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column) and not exceed 5 pages in

length. Submission of papers should be regarded as a commitment such

that, if accepted, at least one author of the paper will register and

attend the conference; otherwise it will be removed from the IEEE

Digital Library after the conference.

* Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format by selecting

CCNC'09 on the EDAS <http://www.edas.info/> paper submission website

and then selecting the workshop submission link.

* A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the

author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail,

telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: 24 August 2010

Author Notification: 15 September 2010

Camera-ready Copy: 1 October 2010

Workshop date: 8 or 11 January 2011

(TBC)

Workshop Co-Chairs

Dr Paul Fergus, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Dr Mario Kolberg, University of Sterling, UK

TPC to be confirmed

Dr Paul Fergus, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, MIEEE

Research Fellow

School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Liverpool John Moores University

Byrom Street

L3 3AF

Tel: +44 (151) 231 2434

Email: P.Fergus at ljmu.ac.uk