<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">Call for Papers </div><div style="text-align:center">==========</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center">The 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare </div>
<div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center">September 22-25, 2014</div><div style="text-align:center">Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada </div><div style="text-align:center">
<br></div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Important Dates</div><div>-----------------------</div>
<div>- Workshop Proposals: February 24, 2014<br></div><div>- Paper Submission Due: April 30, 2014<br></div><div>- Acceptance Notification: June 24, 2014<br></div><div>- Final Manuscript Due: July 17, 2014 <br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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>).</div>
<div><br></div><div>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 be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and 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. 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 a special issue of an international journal. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div>------------------------------------------------------</div><div> Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care<br></div><div> Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems</div>
<div> Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems</div><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> Health grids</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 Experiments 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><div>Committees</div><div>-------------<br></div><div><br></div><div>General Chair</div>
<div> Jane Liu, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan<br></div><div><br></div><div>Program Chairs</div><div> Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada<br></div><div> Ellen Jaatun, Institute of cancer research and molecular medicine, NTNU, and St Olavs Hospital, Norway</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Advisory Committee</div><div> Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada<br></div><div> Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA</div><div> Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark</div>
<div> Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</div><div> Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Workshops Chair</div><div> Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada<br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>International Journal Chair</div><div> Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>Local Arrangements Chairs</div><div> Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada<br>
</div><div> Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada</div><div> Shyamala C. Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Publicity Chairs</div><div> Tayseer Alkhdour, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia<br>
</div><div> Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China</div><div> Adrian Rutle, Aalesund University College, Norway</div><div><br></div><div>Steering Committee Chair</div><div> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada </div>
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