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       University of Massachusetts, Boston
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17th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom 2015)

October 14 - 17, 2015

Boston, MA, USA

http://www.ieee-healthcom.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE HealthCom 2015 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. It aims at bringing together interested parties from around the world working in the healthcare field to exchange ideas, discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and develop collaborations. eHealth is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and the related fields, including health-care related services, surveillance, literature, education, knowledge and research, both at the local site and at a distance. It will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. The adoption of e-Health technologies in medical fields creates huge opportunities; however, a number of challenges still need to be addressed to build reliable, secure, and efficient networks or platforms with great flexibility.

Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the e-Health area. The topics include but are not limited to:

Medical, Biomedical and Health Informatics
* Electronic medical records and electronic prescription  
* Data preprocessing, cleansing, management and mining 
* Data quality assessment and improvement 
* Medical imaging
* Computer-aided detection, hypothesis generation and diagnosis
* Evidence-based medicine
* Evolutionary and longitudinal patient and disease models 
* Clinical workflow 
* Medication adherence and health monitoring
* Smart health and big data 

Devices
* High-confidence medical devices
* Integration of medical devices with e-Health
* Medical devices interoperability
* Wearable devices 
* In/on/around-body sensors and actuators
* Biosensors at the micro/nano-scale 
* Smart garments/textiles
* Wireless energy transfer
* Energy harvesting

Communications and Networking
* Communication/network infrastructures, architectures and protocols for e-Health 
* Antennas and propagation 
* Proximity-based communication, group communication and social networks 
* Power-efficient communication
* Ultra wideband communication
* Delay-tolerant, fault-tolerant and reliable communication
* Cognitive communication for medical bands
* In-hospital networking, body area networking and cloud-integrated networking
* Software-defined networks and network management
* Nanoscale/molecular communications
* Network coding and error detection/correction
* Middleware for e-Health

Signal/Data Processing and Systems
* Context awareness and situation awareness
* Image/video processing and computer/robot vision
* Internet of things, ambient intelligence and pervasive computing
* Motion detection and activity recognition
* Augmented reality and human-computer interaction
* User modeling and personalization
* Robotics for e-Health
* Computing/storage infrastructures for e-Health such as clouds and virtualization
* Software, systems and performance engineering for e-Health

Services and Applications
* e-Health services/applications for physical and mental health; for example, in acute care, chronic care, mental health care, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, prosthetics, elderly/nursing care, smart homes and hospitals, and rural/wilderness practice. 
* e-Health services/applications for sports and exercise; for example, in training prescription and feedback, concussion detection/monitoring, life-logging and fitness monitoring. 
* e-Health services/applications for public health; for example, disease prevention, pandemic preparedness, epidemiological interventions and smart cities. 
* e-Health services/applications for extreme environments; for example, in fire fighting, disaster response, evacuation assistance, medical triage, space travel/exploration, deep diving and deep sea exploration. 
* Quality of experience (QoE) with e-Health services/applications. 
* Security, privacy and trust for e-Health services/applications
* Emerging cloud-based services/applications including health clouds/grids

PAPER SUBMISSION

Perspective authors are invited to submit their papers, up to 6 pages each, in the IEEE paper template. Please visit http://www.ieee-healthcom.org/ for detailed submission instructions. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing procedure (with at least 3 independent anonymous reviews). 

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Due: May 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: July 5, 2015
Camera ready Papers: August 30, 2015 

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and and indexed by IEEExplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). Selected papers will be considered for publication in leading journals such as:

* International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications 
* IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience
* EAI Transactions on Body Area Networks 
* Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE

General Chairs:
  Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
  Joel Rodrigues, Institute for Telecommunications/University of Beira Interior, Portugal

TPC Chairs:
  Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
  Min Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry Val d'Essonne, France

IEEE Healthcom Steering Committee
  Joel Rodrigues (Chair), IT/Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal
  Pradeep Ray, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
  Norbert Noury, University of Lyon, France
  Augusto Venâncio Neto, Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
  Nazim Agoulmine, Université Evry Val Essonne, France

Operations Chairs
  Douglas Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA
  Jones Yu, Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA

Publication Chair
  Norbert Noury, Universite de Lyon, France

Tutorial Chair
  Stefan Covaci, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Special Tracks Chair
  Sana Ullah, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal

Workshops Chair
  Christopher Thuemmler, Edinburgh Napier University

Registration Chair
  Xinming Huang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Publicity chairs
  Jiaqi Gong, University of Virginia, USA
  Pawel Swiatek, Wroclaw University of Technology
  Jianli Pan, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA

Web Chair
  Yutaka Okaie, Osaka University
  Zhaoyang Zhang, UMass Dartmouth

Treasurer
  Bruce Worthman, IEEE Communications Society, USA

Conference Manager
  Bridget Erlikh, IEEE Communications Society, USA​

Branding and Graphic Design
  Max Loskutnikov, IEEE Communications Society, USA