<div dir="ltr"><div> -------------- Call for Papers ----------------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> The 3rd International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information </div>
<div> and Communication Technologies in Healthcare </div><div><br></div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><br></div><div> 21-24 October, 2013</div>
<div><br></div><div> Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Conference Website: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-13/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-13/</a> </div>
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<div>- Workshop Proposal Due: February 25, 2013</div><div>- Papers Submission Deadline May 10, 2013 (Extended)</div><div>- Acceptance Notification: June 10, 2013</div><div>- Camera-Ready Submission: July 10, 2013</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 3rd International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are engaged in different facets of ICT and healthcare. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of ICT based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of healthcare / medical care, and other similar domains, such as public health and pharmaceutical industry.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All ICTH-2013 accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com">www.engineeringvillage.com</a>). This includes EI Compendex (<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex">www.ei.org/compendex</a>). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: </div>
<div><br></div><div>- Journal of Computer and System Sciences, by Elsevier <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computer-and-system-sciences/">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computer-and-system-sciences/</a></div>
<div>- The Computer Journal, by Oxford <a href="http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/">http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/</a></div><div>- Journal of Mobile Information Systems, by IOS Press <a href="http://www.iospress.nl/journal/mobile-information-systems/">http://www.iospress.nl/journal/mobile-information-systems/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>ICTH-2013 will be held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-13/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-13/</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related topics of interests. For further details, please see website at: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-13/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-13/</a>.</div>
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<div> Clinical Data and Knowledge Management</div><div> Cloud Computing for Healthcare</div><div> Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare</div><div> Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care</div>
<div> Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare</div><div> Data Visualization</div><div> Decision Support Systems in Healthcare</div><div> Drug Information Systems</div><div> Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems</div>
<div> Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare</div><div> Digital Hospitals</div><div> E-health & m-health</div><div> Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR)</div><div>
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)</div><div> Healthgrids</div><div> Health Portals</div><div> Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments</div><div> Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications</div>
<div> Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems</div><div> Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare</div><div> RFID Solutions for Healthcare</div><div> Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments</div>
<div> Telemedicine and Health Telematics</div><div> Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare</div><div> Usability & Socio Technical studies</div><div> User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications</div>
<div> Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare</div><div> Virtual Environments for Healthcare</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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