2nd International Workshop on Connecting Health: Using IT to Assist Patient Recovery

 

Thursday 31 July, 2008   Hong Kong

(co-hosted with ICST QShine 2008.07.28-31)

 

Click here to download the CFP in US Letter or A4 format

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Scope

 

Various aspects of Information Technology can be used for assisting with patient’s recovery after undergoing a surgical operation, ranging from telemedicine networks for patient monitoring to involvements of biocompatibility and biomaterials used for filling or blocking lumens and voids of a patient.  "ConnectingHealth" has the primary objective of "connecting" healthcare professionals and resources together, thereby effectively utilizing available resources for helping patients get through their recovery process after surgery.  The workshop is aimed at providing tutorials and technical papers on Pervasive Computing and Healthcare with an emphasis on assisting remote patient monitoring with advanced technologies.

 

We are soliciting full papers in all research areas on patient monitoring applications. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:


I. Telemedicine Symposium

 

3G/4G Systems and Telemedicine

Wireless indoor & home networks for patient recovery monitoring

Wireless networks including IEEE 802.11, 15, and 16

High-speed switch and router architectures

Ultra Wideband (UWB) Networks

interoperability supporting on-scene paramedics

Resource management

Space-time processing, MIMO systems

Economics and business issues related to healthcare support

RFID and healthcare

Waveband switching

Wireless emergency systems

Network control and management, GMPLS

Optical CDMA

MAC protocols with QoS support

Cellular mobile/WLAN

Traffic analysis, traffic engineering, and traffic shaping

Transmission of medical images

Heterogeneous biosensor networks

 

II. Information Technology in Biomaterials

 

Computational modeling

Polymer toxicology

Tissue banking

Analytical and simulation techniques

Adhesion barriers and surgical sealants

IT related to prosthetic and orthotic design

 

 


III. Healthcare Enterprise Systems

Healthcare system architecture and standards

System design, optimization, and integration

Quality-of-Service support

Medical data storage

Database management

Scalability of medical enterprise systems

Biotelemetry and wireless sensing

Mobile and wearable medical devices

Biosensors design and implementation

Healthcare and patient telemonitoring systems

Security  and Privacy

Grid Computing for healthcare

Medical imaging: capturing and processing

Multimedia and ultrasound systems

 

 

All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the Qshine 2008 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Selected papers from Qshine 2008 will also be recommended to a special issue of a top journal. Please visit the Publications page for more information:

http://www.qshine.org/publication.shtml

Research papers of particular merit will be selected for consideration of fast track publication in ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (approved).  Moreover, some selected papers will be considered for publication in special issue on "Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security, and Robustness" of Elsevier Computer Communications.

Dates for Conference Papers               

 

Full Papers due:                                  April 14, 2008

Notification of Acceptance:                May 15, 2008

Camera-ready Manuscripts due:         June 1, 2008

Workshop Date:                                  July 31, 2008

 

 

Exhibits and Sponsorship Opportunities

 

For information on exhibit space or sponsorship opportunities, please contact:

Bernard Fong (Workshop General Chair) <email>

Hong Kong Polytechnic University (EIE), Hung Hom, Kowloon, HONG KONG