NetHealth Workshop
Theme: Leveraging Technology for Healthcare
Workshop Date: 7th January 2018
ABOUT:The NetHealth Workshop 2018 focuses to bring together leading clinicians, industry stalwarts, mobile health pioneers, engineers, designers and entrepreneurs to a common platform to learn, teach and connect to better understand and work on healthcare technologies for India.
SCOPE:The event will include paper presentations on recent healthcare innovations ranging from mobile health, medical devices, and healthcare IT solutions. It will also include keynote speeches from eminent leaders within the healthcare community along with talks/panel discussions on challenges, opportunities and the future of healthcare innovations in India. There will be a showcase of innovations being/that have been developed with a chance to interact with the innovative teams one on one.
CONTENT: We invite research papers, research demos, product presentations and position papers that present novel ideas for networked computing technology in support of healthcare, and which are likely to invoke thoughtful discussion at the workshop. Both academia and corporate contributions are highly welcome and encouraged.
Of interest, though not exclusively, are the following topics:
- Mobile and wearable medical sensing applications
- Usability of mobile health applications and devices
- Clinical applications of mobile or networked healthcare
- Security and privacy in networked healthcare
- Impacting lifestyle choices through mobile health
- Remote diagnosis and remote consultation
- Remote access to electronic health records
- Sensor networks for public health monitoring and surveillance
- Cost-efficient and energy-efficient networking for remote healthcare
- Assistive medical technology
- Assistive robotics and prosthetics
- Rehabilitation engineering and assistive rehabilitative technology
- Design of wearable and home-care health devices
- Data analytics for personalized healthcare
- Big Data in Healthcare
- Apps for healthcare
Workshop Agenda
| Time | Sessions |
| 08:30 - 9:30 | Registration |
| 09:15 - 9:30 | Introductory Remarks |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Technical Paper Presentations I |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Keynote Address on Product Innovation and Technological Advancemnt in Healthcare by Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam (HTIC, IIT Madras) |
| 11:45 - 12:45 |
Medtech Product Innovation Panel Showcase Moderated by Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi
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| 12:45 - 13:00 | Sponsor Talk on MedTech development by InnAccel |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
MedTech Innovation Showcase
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| 14:40-15:00 | Invited Talk on E-commerce for MedTech by Nilesh Parikh, Medikabazzar |
| 15:00 - 16:15 |
Process Innovation and Data Panel Moderated by Dr. Vivek Kadambi
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| 16:15 - 16:45 | Tea Break |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Technical Paper Presentations II |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Closing remarks & Paper and Showcase Awards |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Please join us for networking over drinks and snacks |
Program Committee
A. Vijayarajan, CTO and Co-founder, InnAccel, India
Abhishek Appaji M., Asst. Prof., BMS college of Engineering, India
Vivek Kadambi, MedTech Advisor & Ophthalmic Surgeon, India
Nitesh Jangir, Founder, Coeo Labs, India
Dr. Sharanya Rajan, Nayonika Eye Care Charitable Trust (NECT), Bangalore, India
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
Submission Guidelines
- Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length including all figures, tables, and references and must be a PDF file. A minimum number of 3 pages are required.
- All papers must be electronically submitted via the NetHealth Workshop submission site on EDAS.
- Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission.
- Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website.
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal.
Submission Portal
Papers can be submitted through this submission link.
- The paper formatting and submission instructions are the same as for the main conference.
- All Workshop papers (full papers - both regular and invited) WILL appear in conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
Important Deadlines
| Paper Submission | |
| Notification of Acceptance | |
| Camera-ready Submission | |
| Workshop Date | 7th January 2018 |
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam
HITC, IIT Madras, India
Panel Moderators
Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi
InnAccel, India
Dr. Vivek Kadambi
Belle Sante Diagnostic and Therapeutic Institute, India
