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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Future Internet e-Health
May 25–28, 2016 | PUEBLA, Mexico
http://fi-ehealth.org/2016/show/home
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** KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Nadia Berthouze – UCL, United Kingdom
** SCOPE
The forthcoming infrastructure for communications, sensing, and storing of digital information, together with the incipient ICT-based services converge to create an exceptional opportunity time for addressing challenging needs of the health systems of the future. This conference will be looking at the dawn of a new age of the e-Health science and technologies. It will do so understanding future Internet as the enabling substratum.
** TOPICS
e-Health has become a central element for the implementation of solutions demanded by the provision of health in our societies. It is a multidisciplinary field where expertise on biomedicine, nursing, psychology, public policy and administration, education, engineering in several disciplines and computing converges. The topic is deceivingly vast and consequently we are seeking to attract a multidisciplinary audience with special focus on the harnessing of Future Internet e-Health infrastructure and services. Contributions are welcomed in the following or related topics:
Health necessities
Full health coverage; prevention, diagnosing, treatment and monitoring
Knowledge distribution and appropriation
Support to and coordination of logistic distribution of health services
Actuation
Health systems managing and administration
Well-being support
Intelligent operating theatre
Supporting services
Support to evidence-based medicine
Data mining, knowledge discovery and big data
Safety and privacy
Ambient intelligence
Infrastructure
Sensors and devices; integration and internet of things
Cloud storing and recovery
Processing over the Internet; remote control.
Communications; 4G/5G, etc.
The emphasis will be in pragmatic short and mid-term knowledge, but visionary long-term contributions will be welcomed. Focus is on scientific contributions, but development and applications of technologies will also be considered.
** IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Initial Submission: 15 January, 2016
Notification: 25 February, 2016
Camera-Ready: 25 March, 2016
** PAPER SUBMISSION
Full paper length: 6 – 12 pages
Short paper length: 2 – 4 pages
Submissions are to be sent through the EasyChair platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fiehealth16
Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three expert reviewers.
Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal.
Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted.
** PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published in the FI-eHealth 2016 Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST).
Chairs:
Alberto L. Morán, UABC, Mexico
Venet Osmani, Create-Net, Italy