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<p> *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ***<br>
----------------- Call for Papers ------------------------</p>
<p>The 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare
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<p>September 27-30, 2015<br>
Berlin, Germany</p>
<p><a href="http://icth-15.dai-labor.de/">http://icth-15.dai-labor.de/</a></p>
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Important Dates <br>
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<p>- Workshop Proposals: February 15, 2015<br>
- Paper Submission Due: May 6, 2015 <br>
- Acceptance Notification: June 26, 2015<br>
- Final Manuscript Due: July 26, 2015</p>
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The 5th 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. Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related topics of interests.</p>
<p>ICTH-2015 will be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN:
<a href="http://euspn-15.dai-labor.de/">http://euspn-15.dai-labor.de/</a>).</p>
<p>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>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>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: <br>
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- Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care<br>
- Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems<br>
- Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems<br>
- Clinical Data and Knowledge Management<br>
- Cloud Computing for Healthcare<br>
- Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare<br>
- Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care<br>
- Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare<br>
- Data Visualization<br>
- Decision Support Systems in Healthcare<br>
- Drug Information Systems<br>
- Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems<br>
- Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare<br>
- Digital Hospitals<br>
- E-health & m-health<br>
- Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR)<br>
- Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)<br>
- Healthgrids<br>
- Health Portals<br>
- Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments<br>
- Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications<br>
- Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems<br>
- Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare<br>
- RFID Solutions for Healthcare<br>
- Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments<br>
- Telemedicine and Health Telematics<br>
- Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare<br>
- Usability & Socio Technical studies<br>
- User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications<br>
- Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare<br>
- Virtual Environments for Healthcare </p>
<p>Committees <br>
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<p>Steering Committee Chair <br>
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada</p>
<p>Honorary Chair<br>
Sahin Albayrak, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany</p>
<p>General Chairs<br>
Ellen Jaatun, Institute of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, NTNU, St. Olvas Hospital, Norway<br>
Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia</p>
<p>Advisory Committee<br>
Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canda<br>
Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA<br>
Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
Francesco Princiroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy<br>
Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada</p>
<p>Advisory Committee <br>
Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada <br>
Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA <br>
Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark <br>
Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy <br>
Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada </p>
<p>Workshop Chair<br>
Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UA </p>
<p>Local Arrangements Members<br>
Jan Keiser, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany<br>
Fikret Sivrikaya, German-Turkish Advanced ICT Research Centre, Germany<br>
Johannes Fähndrich, TU Berlin, Germany</p>
<p>Publicity Chairs<br>
Christian Kuster, German-Turkish Advanced ICT Research Centre, Germany<br>
Samir Ouchani, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg<br>
Nabeel Al-Qirim, College of Information Technology, UAE</p>
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