3d International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009

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England UK, April 1-3, 2009

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline:
Notification of Acceptance:
Camera-ready Manuscripts due:
December 5, 2008
February 8, 2009
February 27, 2009

Scope

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

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

Dates & News

Conference Announcement
Pervasive Health 2009

Technical Cooperation
IEEE
Technical Co-Sponsors
EMBS