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Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></p>
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The 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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September 22-25, 2014<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Important Dates<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>- Workshop Proposals: February 24, 2014<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>- Paper Submission Due: April 30, 2014<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">- Acceptance Notification: June 24, 2014<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">The 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary
researchers, professionals and practitioners from academia and healthcare 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 health/medical care, and related domains, such as public health and pharmaceuticals.<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">ICTH-2014 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN:
<a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/</a>).<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Accepted papers will be 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 the 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 Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/">
http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a>. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. 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 a special issue of an international journal.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">We invite submissions on either completed or ongoing work. Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 5 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress,
including all figures, tables and references. We encourage students to submit short papers or works in progress, and welcome proposals on workshops in areas of special interest to participants.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>------------------------------------------------------<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Clinical Data and Knowledge Management<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Cloud Computing for Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Data Mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Data Visualization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Decision Support Systems in Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Drug Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Digital Hospitals<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> E-health & m-health<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Health grids<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Health Portals<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Related Real World Experiments and Case Studies in Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> RFID Solutions for Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Telemedicine and Health Telematics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Usability & Socio-technical studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Virtual Environments for Healthcare<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Committees<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">General Chair<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Jane Liu, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Ellen Jaatun, Institute of cancer research and molecular medicine, NTNU, and St Olavs Hospital, Norway<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Advisory Committee<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">International Journal Chair<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Tayseer Alkhdour, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Adrian Rutle, Aalesund University College, Norway<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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