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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