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Pervasive Health 2009
3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009
April 1-3, 2009
London, UK
City University of London
http://www.pervasivehealth.org/
Sponsored by ICST and CREATE-NET. In technical cooperation with ACM SIGCHI.
Technically co-sponsored by IEEE, IEEE EMBS, IMIA. Special sponsor: Nokia.
After the successful first and second years of the conference, the Organizing Committee is please to announce the Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.
The conference aims to gather together experts contributing towards the development and application of human-centered pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:
Technology
Design and evaluation of patient- and ambient-related sensors
Wearable and implantable sensor integration
Sensor networks for pervasive healthcare
Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments
Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data
Decision support algorithms for sensor analysis
User needs
* Usability and acceptability issues
* Social implications
* Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services
* Diversity of patients and their specific requirements
* Telemedicine
Application
* Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies
* Pervasive healthcare applications for citizen for chronic disease management & health risk management
* Health promotion, and disease prevention
* Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies
* Continuous vs event-driven monitoring of patients in diverse environments
* Feedback
Management of pervasive healthcare
* Business cases and cost issues
* Electronic citizen-managed health records
* Security and privacy in pervasive healthcare
* Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare
* Legal and regulatory issues in pervasive healthcare
* Insurance payments and cost aspects
* Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare
* Using mobile devices for healthcare information storage, update, and transmission
Apart from the main technical session the conference will include a keynote speech by Prof. Dr. med. Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, as well as five workshops as follows:
* 2009 International Workshop on Technologies to Counter Cognitive Decline (TCCD)
* 2009 International Workshop on Wireless Pervasive Healthcare (WiPH)
* Situation Recognition and Medical Data Analysis in Pervasive Health Environments (PervaSense09)
* Connectivity, Mobility and Patients' Comfort (CMPC)
* Designing with Care (DwC09)
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Organizing Committee:
General Chair:
Gerhard Troester, ETHZ
Program Co-Chairs:
Kay Connelly, Indiana University
Bert Arnrich, ETHZ
Steering Committee:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-NET
Oscar Mayora, Create-NET
Registration and additional information is available at:
http://www.pervasivehealth.org/
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