Extended deadline: September 19, 2011 (firm deadline)

Call for Papers

2nd IEEE International Workshop on Consumer eHealth Platforms, Services
and Applications (CeHPSA)

14th January 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada

Satellite Workshop of 9th 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 .pdf format by selecting CCNC'12 on the
EDAS paper submission website and then selecting the workshop submission
link. Papers should be a maximum of 5 pages in length and follow the
IEEE formatting rules.

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: September 19, 2011
Camera-ready version (hard): November 1, 2011
Workshop presentations: January 14, 2012

Workshop co-Chairs

Dr Paul Fergus, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Dr Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, UK


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