Call for Papers

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

TYPE OF SUBMISSIONS

Pervasive Health will accept submissions in the following categories:

1 Full papers (6-8 pages 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 (3-4 pages submissions) - Authors are invited to submit
work in progress whose preliminary results are already interesting to
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 (2 pages submissions) - For the first time, Pervasive Health
Conference proposes a demo track that will showcase the latest
developments and prototypes related to the topics of interest of the
conference. The expected demo submissions should describe the demo
from both, the technical side and its contribution to healthcare
aspects.

4 Position Papers (2 pages submissions) - Position papers are
envisioned to provide insight into the lessons learnt from current
(industrial, practitioners, government, etc.) pervasive healthcare
practice. The position papers track is envisioned to provide the view
of practitioners to the pervasive health community in order to have a
more clear understanding about the real needs of healthcare operators
and in this way shorten the gap between technologists and the
every-day needs of practitioners.

5 Workshops (2 pages submissions) Several workshops will be run in
conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to
discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research
related to pervasive healthcare. Proposals for workshops should be
submitted directly to the workshops co-chairs..

IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers, Posters, Demos & Position Papers due: December 5, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: February 8, 2009
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: February 27, 2009
Conference Dates: April 1 - 3, 2009

Margarita Anastassova
CREATE-NET
Post-Doc Researcher
Via alla Cascata, 56 C Building D - 38100 Trento - Italy
e-mail: margarita.anastassova@create-net.org
Tel: (+39) 0461 314952
Fax: (+39) 0461 314972