3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009

Conference

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, need for empowering patients and relatives for self-care and management of their health, and 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 locational, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare.

The Pervasive Healthcare conference aims to gather together technology experts, practitioners, industry and national authorities contributing towards the development and application of human-centered pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness.

CONTRIBUTIONS

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
  • Sensor networks for pervasive healthcare
  • Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments
  • Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data
  • Decision support algorithms for sensor analysis

User Needs

  • Usability and acceptability issues
  • Social implications
  • Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services
  • Diversity of patients and their specific requirements
  • Telemedicine

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
  • Feedback

Management of Pervasive Healthcare

  • Business cases and cost issues
  • Electronic citizen-managed health records
  • Security and privacy in pervasive healthcare
  • Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare
  • Legal and regulatory issues in pervasive healthcare
  • Insurance payments and cost aspects
  • Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare
  • Using mobile devices for healthcare information storage, update, and transmission
From:Wednesday, April 1, 2009
To:Friday, April 3, 2009
Papers Due:Friday, December 5, 2008
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Website:http://www.pervasivehealth.org

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