Networked Healthcare Technology (NetHealth)
[ NetHealth-Home | NetHealth-CFP | Program Committee | Technical Program ]COMSNETS 2013 NetHealth WORKSHOP: CALL FOR PAPERS
The human body is being increasingly instrumented and connected. The emergence of networked information technology for healthcare has already shown benefit in moving away from episodic to pervasive care. The availability of rich, perpetual, multi-modal data about physiological and psychological factors provides an opportunity to make critical real-time inferences not just about health but also behavior, beyond what is possible with infrequent clinical visits. We imagine future networked information systems will support, for example, clinical workflow, remote diagnosis and consultation, e-prescribing, and mobile data collection and surveillance, disease outbreak identification and patient participation in the comfort of familiar surroundings and care.
Mobile technology can be a key enabler in improving access to healthcare (in terms of geography, economics and information), by encouraging personal health management, and by facilitating patient and provider mobility. Wearable medical devices are emerging, to measure essential vital signs like pulse, respiration, ECG, blood glucose level, and patient mobility. Handheld devices support clinicians in urban hospitals, and portable diagnostic kits allow remote healthcare teams to more easily reach rural villages. The widespread availability of mobile phones, and recent experiments with low-cost, long-range broadband wireless networks, bring connectivity to all these opportunities. We encourage papers that present novel ideas for networked computing technology in support of healthcare, and which are likely to invoke thoughtful discussion at the workshop..
Research papers should focus on all aspects of networked healthcare technologies. Of interest, though not exclusively, are the following topics:
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The NetHealth workshop solicits paper submissions of up to 6 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted via the NetHealth submission site http://comsnets13.cs.umass.edu/nethealth/ in PDF. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and will include the final papers of up to 6 pages in length. All NetHealth technical papers must be associated with an author registration at the full rate and a presentation at the workshop. For authors presenting multiple papers, one full registration is valid for up to three papers. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.
Formatting Guidelines for Submitted Papers can be found here.
In addition, NetHealth 2013 will feature a demo session on the day of the workshop to allow industry and academic researchers to showcase their latest applications and prototypes in all related topics. Demo proposals are invited for both mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries or universities. The submitted demo proposal should include all relevant technical content in a maximum of 2 pages in double column format.
Each paper acceptance is subject to the conditions that the paper does not contain any plagiarized material and that the authors do not submit the paper material in parallel to another publication venue. Violations of these conditions will most likely result in rejections of the violating submissions or even already accepted papers.
Important Dates
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| Notification of acceptance: | November 19, 2012 |
| Camera-ready submission: | December 2, 2012 |
| Demo submission: | December 7, 2012 |
| Workshop date: | January 7, 2013 |
Technical Program Co-Chairs
| Zainul Charbiwala | IBM Research, India |
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| Anish Arora | Ohio State University, USA |
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