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PERVASIVE HEALTH 2010

4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2010
22-25 March 2010, Munich, Germany

http://pervasivehealth.org/

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SPONSORS

Sponsored by ICST
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET, IEEE EMB and IMIA (pending)
In technical cooperation with ACM SIGCHI (pending)
In cooperation with the Technical University of Munich, MiMed and IMETUM

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SCOPE

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging research discipline, focusing on the development and application of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. Pervasive healthcare seeks to respond to a variety of pressures on healthcare systems, including the increased incidence of life-style related and chronic diseases, emerging consumerism in healthcare, the need for empowering patients and relatives for self-care and health management , and the need to provide seamless access for health care services, independent of time and place.

Pervasive healthcare may be defined from two perspectives. First, it is the development and application of pervasive computing (or ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence) technologies for healthcare, health and wellness management. Second, it seeks to make healthcare available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing location, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare.

Pervasive Health 2009 aims to gather together technology experts, practitioners, industry and national authorities contributing towards the development and applicati on of human-centered pervasive and ubiquitous computing tech! nology f or healthcare and wellness.

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TOPICS

We seek novel, innovative and exciting work in areas including, but not limited to:

Technology

• Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors
• Wearable and implantable sensor integration
• Energy management and harvesting
• Sensor networks for pervasive healthcare
• Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments
• Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data
• Decision support algorithms for sensor analysis
• Human to machine interfaces

User Needs

• Usability and acceptability issues
• Social implications
• Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services
• Cognitive deficits (mild cognitive impairment, dementia, etc.)
• Physical deficits (mobility, etc.)
• Vegetative deficits (incontinence, adipositas, cardiovascular diseases, etc.)
• Telemedic ine

Applications

• Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies
• Pervasive healthcare applications for citizen for chronic disease management & health risk management
• Health promotion, and disease prevention
• Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies
• Continuous vs. event-driven monitoring of patients in diverse environments
• Health interfaces, information visualisation and feedback
• Health-related ICT for development
• Assistive devices for temporal and spatial orientation
• Activity recognition and fall detection
• Entertainment, educational and motivational aids

Management of Pervasive Healthcare

• Business cases and cost issues
• Electronic citizen-managed health records
• Security and privacy in pervasive healthcare
• Training of healthcare professionals for pervasive h ealthcare
• Legal and regulatory issues in pervasive h! ealthcar e
• Insurance payments and cost aspects
• Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare
• Using mobile devices for healthcare information storage, update and transmission

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PUBLICATION

All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (confirmation pending).

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SUBMISSION TYPES

Pervasive Health will accept submissions in the following categories:

1. Full papers (up to 8-page submissions) - Full papers are submissions describing results and original research work not submitted or published elsewhere in one of the four main categories listed below. Full papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field.

2. Posters (up to 4-page submissions) - Authors are invited to submit work in progress whose preliminary results are alr eady interesting to the Pervasive Health audience. The poster track will give Pervasive Health attendees a way to learn about ongoing research initiatives and will provide presenters with an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable direct feedback from experts.

3. Demos and Videos (2-page submissions) - For the first time, Pervasive Health proposes a demos and videos track that will showcase the latest developments and prototypes related to the topics of interest of the conference. The expected submissions should describe the demo from both the technical side and its contribution to healthcare aspects.

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SUBMISSION

For submission instructions visit http://pervasivehealth.org/submission.shtml

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 4 December 2009

Notification of ac ceptance: 8 February 2010

Camera-ready deadlin! e: 26 February 2010

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STEERING COMMITTEE

Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), CREATE-NET, Italy
Oscar Mayora-Ibarra, CREATE-NET
Upkar Varshney, Georgia State University

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ADVISORY BOARD

Kay Connelly, Indiana University
Bert Arnrich, ETH Zurich

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
Heinz Gerhauser, Fraunhofer IIS

General Co-Chair
Venet Osmani, CREATE-NET

Technical Program Chairs
Katie Siek, University of Colorado at Boulder
Joachim Hornegger, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Tim Christian Lueth, Technical University of Munich      

For a complete list of committee and board members, please visit http://pervasivehealth.org/orgncomm.shtml

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RELATED CONFERENCES

To find out about other conferences in the field of e-Health, please vis it http://www.icst.org/sibs/ehealth/