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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">The 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare </div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">September 22-25, 2014</div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/" target="_blank">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/</a> </div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Important Dates</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">- Workshop Proposals: February 24, 2014<br></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">- Paper Submission Due: April 30, 2014<br></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">- Acceptance Notification: June 24, 2014<br></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">- Final Manuscript Due: July 17, 2014 <br></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">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>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">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/" target="_blank">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/</a>).</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">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/" target="_blank">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on the Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">www.scopus.com</a>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (<a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of an international journal. </div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">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. <br>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care<br></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Clinical Data and Knowledge Management</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Cloud Computing for Healthcare</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Data Mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Data Visualization</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Decision Support Systems in Healthcare</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Drug Information Systems</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Digital Hospitals</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> E-health & m-health</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR)</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Health Portals</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Related Real World Experiments and Case Studies in Healthcare</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> RFID Solutions for Healthcare</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Telemedicine and Health Telematics</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Usability & Socio-technical studies</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Virtual Environments for Healthcare</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">General Chair</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Jane Liu, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan<br></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Program Chairs</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada<br></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Ellen Jaatun, Institute of cancer research and molecular medicine, NTNU, and St Olavs Hospital, Norway</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Advisory Committee</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada<br></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Workshops Chair</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada<br></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">International Journal Chair</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Local Arrangements Chairs</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada<br></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Shyamala C. Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University, Canada</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Publicity Chairs</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Tayseer Alkhdour, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia<br></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Adrian Rutle, Aalesund University College, Norway</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Steering Committee Chair</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada </div></div></div><br></div>