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NetHealth 2013 Call for Papers
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The human body is being increasingly instrumented and connected. The
emergence of networked information technology for healthcare has already
shown benefit in moving away from episodic to pervasive care. The
availability of rich, perpetual, multi-modal data about physiological and
psychological factors provides an opportunity to make critical real-time
inferences not just about health but also behavior, beyond what is possible
with infrequent clinical visits. We imagine future networked information
systems will support, for example, clinical workflow, remote diagnosis and
consultation, e-prescribing, and mobile data collection and surveillance,
disease outbreak identification and patient participation in the comfort of
familiar surroundings and care.
Mobile technology can be a key enabler in improving access to healthcare
(in terms of geography, economics and information), by encouraging
personal health
management, and by facilitating patient and provider mobility. Wearable
medical devices are emerging, to measure essential vital signs like
pulse, respiration,
ECG, blood glucose level, and patient mobility. Handheld devices support
clinicians in urban hospitals, and portable diagnostic kits allow
remote healthcare
teams to more easily reach rural villages.
The widespread availability of mobile phones, and recent experiments with
low-cost, long-range broadband wireless networks, bring connectivity
to all these
opportunities. We encourage papers that present novel ideas for networked
computing technology in support of healthcare, and which are likely to
invoke thoughtful discussion at the workshop.
Research papers should focus on all aspects of networked healthcare
technologies. Of interest, though not exclusively, are the following topics:
- Remote diagnosis and remote consultation
- Assistive medical technology
- Clinical applications of mobile or networked healthcare
- Mobile and wearable medical sensing applications
- Design of wearable and home-care health devices
- Sensor networks for public health monitoring and surveillance
- Networked mobile technology for rural healthcare
- Security and privacy in networked healthcare
- Experience from technology deployments
- Usability of mobile health applications and devices
- Applications to emergency response and disaster response
- Cost-efficient and energy-efficient networking for remote healthcare
- Remote access to electronic health records
- Assistive robotics and prosthetics
- Rehabilitation engineering and assistive rehabilitative technology
- Smart homes for tele-home healthcare and telemedicine
Formatting Guidelines for Submitted Papers
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The NetHealth workshop solicits paper submissions of up to 6 pages in
length, including all figures, tables, and references. All papers must
be electronically
submitted via the NetHealth submission site
http://comsnets13.cs.umass.edu/nethealth/ in PDF. The proceedings will be
published by IEEE Xplore and will include the final papers of up to 6 pages
in length. All NetHealth technical papers must be associated with an author
registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one
full registration is valid for up to three papers. IEEE reserves the right
to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from
IEEE Xplore) if the paper is
not presented at the workshop.
Overall appearance: Submitted papers should adhere to the appearance of the
standard IEEE twocolumn format that is used for IEEE Transactions.
Margins: Papers must use a 10pt font on US Letter paper with margins no
smaller than 0.75in for the top margin, 1.0in for the bottom margin,
and 0.625in
for side margins.
Templates: Depending on whether you are using LaTeX or Microsoft Word for
formatting your paper, you can download the following templates
thatincorporate the formatting specifications:
LaTeX: Paper http://www.ieee.org/documents/IEEEtran2.tar.gz , Bibliography
http://www.ieee.org/documents/IEEEtranBST1.tar.gz
Word : Paper and Bibliography
http://www.ieee.org/documents/MSW_A4_format.doc
Demo Session
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In addition, NetHealth 2013 will feature a demo session on the day of the
workshop to allow industry and academic researchers to showcase their
latestapplications andprototypes in all related topics. Demo proposals
are invited for both
mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or
for research purposes, from industries or universities. The submitted demo
proposal should include all relevant technical content in a maximum of 2
pages in double column format.
Each paper acceptance is subject to the conditions that the paper does not
contain any plagiarized material and that the authors do not submit
thepaper material inparallel to another publication venue. Violations
of these conditions will
most likely result in rejections of the violating submissions or
evenalready accepted papers.
Important Dates
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Paper Submission: October 28, 2012
Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2012
Camera-ready submission: December 2, 2012
Demo submission: December 7, 2012
Workshop date: January 7, 2013
Technical Program Co-Chairs
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Zainul Charbiwala IBM Research, India (zainulcharbiw...@in.ibm.com)
Anish Arora Ohio State University, USA (an...@cse.ohio-state.edu)
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