CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2008
Pervasive and Smart Technologies for Healthcare: Ubiquitous Methodologies and Tools

A book edited by Antonio Coronato and Giuseppe De Pietro
Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council, Italy

Introduction
Pervasive healthcare is an emerging discipline regarding the application of wireless, mobile and intelligent technologies to healthcare. Its main aim consists of making healthcare available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere.
Pervasive healthcare tries to provide solutions to a variety of new challenges for healthcare systems as the number of incidences of life-style related and chronic diseases increases. Pervasive healthcare has assisting in identifying solutions in such areas as:

i) the need to decentralize patient care from hospital to home;
ii) the need for improving disease prevention and self-care;
iii) the need to provide seamless and pervasive access to health care services.

In addition, pervasive healthcare is opening a wide range of innovative applications from remote monitoring of elder people or ill patients to new intelligent environments for healthcare (Eg. Intelligent Surgery Rooms, Smart Spaces for Doctor Consulting, etc.).

Objective of the Book
This book will aim to provide the state of the art and potentialities regarding the application of pervasive computing technologies, methodologies and tools in healthcare.

Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the field of healthcare in various disciplines, e.g. engineering, medicine, economics, and ICT.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Enabling Technologies for Pervasive Healthcare
* Mobile Medical Devices
* Bio-Sensors and Body Sensor Networks
* Pervasive Computing in Hospitals
* Intelligent Emergency Response and Management
* Pervasive Computing at Home
* Patient Monitoring
* Ambient Assisted Living
* Pervasive Computing for Mobile Patients
* Mobile Telemedicine
* Location Based Medical Services
* Pervasive Access to Medical Data
* Pervasive and Immersive Cooperative Work Environments for Healthcare
* Security and Dependability of Pervasive Healthcare Applications
* Designing Pervasive Healthcare Applications
* Business Opportunities

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October 30, 2008, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter , and short biography (200-300 words). Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by November 15, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.
Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 15, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference) and "Medical Information Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Antonio Coronato or Giuseppe De Pietro

Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council
Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 - Italy
Tel.: +39. 0816139503 • Fax: +39. 0816139531 • GSM: +39. 3288647500
E-mail: pervhealth@na.icar.cnr.it
Web: www.na.icar.cnr.it/pervhealth