CfP: Pervasive Healthcare 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS
PervasiveHealth Conference 2008
Tampere, Finland, January 30-February 2, 2008
http://www.pervasivehealth.org

After the successful first year of the conference, the Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging research discipline, focusing on the development and application of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. Pervasive healthcare seeks to respond to pressures towards healthcare system, arising from a number of factors, including the increased incidence of life-style related and chronic diseases, emerging consumerism in healthcare, need for empowering patients and relatives for self-care and management of their health, and need to provide seamless access for health care services, independent of time and place.

Pervasive healthcare may be defined from two perspectives. First, it is the development and application of pervasive computing (or ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence) technologies for healthcare, health and wellness management. Second, it seeks to make healthcare available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing location, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare.

Pervasive Healthcare conference aims to gather together experts in pervasive healthcare for sharing information on recent developments - both technical and system-level - contributing towards emerging pervasive healthcare discipline. We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

* Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies
* Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing, and feedback, including devices, systems and applications
* Sensor networks for pervasive healthcare
* Information management, processing and analysis in pervasive healthcare
* Networking support for pervasive healthcare (location tracking, routing, scalable architectures, dependability, and quality of access)
* Citizen portals and electronic citizen-managed health records
* Security, privacy and trust in pervasive healthcare
* Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare
* Pervasive healthcare technologies and applications for citizen for chronic disease management, health risk management, health promotion, and disease prevention
* Pervasive healthcare for health professionals
* Technologies to support ambient assisted living
* User needs, usability and acceptability issues
* Business cases and cost issues
* Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: September 14th, 2007
Notification to Authors: November 2nd, 2007
Camera Ready: November 16th, 2007

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Pervasive Health 2008 accepts submissions that describe original, research work not submitted or published elsewhere. The conference accepts two types of submissions: Full Papers presenting significant contributions to research and practice in different aspects of Pervasive Healthcare (maximum ten pages) and Short Papers presenting late-breaking results and ongoing work (maximum four pages). All submissions must follow ACM's conference style two column format including figures and references. Appropriate links to papers templates will be available from the conference website.

Authors are requested to submit their PDF manuscripts electronically using COCUS System (http://www.cocus.info) by following the link and instructions at the conference home page (below). Do the submission in the following 3 steps:

1. Login COCUS system with your e-mail and password. You need to register an account if you do not have one.
2. After login, choose Event's list and find Pervasive Health '08 in the list.
3. Choose Submit a paper and follow the step by step instructions.

PAPER PUBLICATION
Conference papers will be published by ACM and CD proceedings will be distributed during the conference days. Selected papers of the conference will be invited to a Special Issue of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Journal on Methods of Information in Medicine.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair:
Niilo Saranummi VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Ilkka Korhonen VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland:
Howard Wactlar Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Steering Committee:
Imrich Chlamtac CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy
Oscar Mayora-Ibarra CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy
Upkar Varshney Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

Local Chair
Johan Plomp VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Publicity Chair
Kay Connelly Indiana University, USA

Workshops Chair
Raj Rajarajan City University London, UK

Financial Management
Karen Decker ICST

Conference Coordinator
Zsuzsa Lanyi-Kaszab ICST

Publications Chair
Ana Hilda Morales CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

Associated Link: PervasiveHealth conference website

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