Call for Papers

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

8th or 11th January 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada

Satellite Workshop of 8th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking
Conference

Goals and Topics 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
- Wireless Body Area Networks
- 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. Paper length should not exceed five-page
technical paper manuscript. The paper should be used as
the basis for a 20 - 30 minute workshop presentation. Papers should be
submitted in a .pdf or .ps format by selecting CCNC'11 on
the EDAS 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. All accepted papers will be published in
the conference proceedings and on IEEE Xplore. At least
one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full
registration rate.

Important Dates
Deadline for workshop papers: August 24, 2010
Acceptance of workshop papers: September 15, 2010
Camera-ready version (hard): October 1, 2010
Workshop presentations: January 8 or 11, 2011

Workshop co-Chairs
Dr Paul Fergus, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Dr Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, UK





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