Deadline extension: October 19 || eTELEMED 2013 || February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France

[Cristina Pascual <cris.pascual.gonzalez [at] gmail.com>]

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to 
submit and publish original scientific results to eTELEMED 2013.

The submission deadline is October 19, 2012.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA 
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== eTELEMED 2013 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

eTELEMED 2013, The Fifth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine
February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/eTELEMED13.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPeTELEMED13.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmiteTELEMED13.html

Submission deadline: October 19, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, 
research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. 
Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other 
conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, 
Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


eTELEMED 2013 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

eHealth technology and devices

Telemedicine software and devices; Diagnostic/monitoring systems and devices; Electronic health cards; 
Home monitoring services and equipment; Telemedicine equipments; Online instruments supporting 
independent living; eHealth telecommunication services; eHealth wireless data communications; IPTV 
and/or phone portal clients; Standardised biomarker analysis for intrinsic linkage to disease outcomes

eHealth data records

eHealth medical records; Reengineering of care plans in electronic format; Digital imagery and films; 
Internet imaging localization and archiving; Personal, adaptive, and content-based image retrieval 
imaging; Privacy and accuracy communications of patient records; Secure patient data storage; Secure 
communications of patient data; Authenticated access to patient records; Patient privacy-enhancing 
technologies (PETs); Robust approaches to algorithmic modeling of outcomes; Dynamic graphing of 
individual’s data trends; Data aggregation technologies; Delivery of information governance policies; 
Tools/systems for automatic document metadata tagging; Dataset harmonization across multiple sites; 
Standard/symbolic representations of multiple physiological trends and clinical/life events

eHealth information processing

Web technology in medicine and eHealth; Web-enabled consumer-driven eHealth; Electronic imagery and 
visualization frameworks; Color imaging and multidimensional projections; Imaging interfaces and 
navigation; Medical image processing; Video techniques for medical images; Computer vision and 
resolution; Rapid evaluation of patient's status; Anticipative processing of patient's status; 
Videoconferencing; Telepresence

eHealth systems and communications

Hospital information systems; Internet/intranet services; Surgical systems; Sensor-based systems; 
Satellite eHealth communications; Secure data transmissions; Body-sensor networks; Separation of 
concerns between domain problems and technological choices; Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 
approaches to maximize translation of clinical evidence; Cross-border eHealth systems; HealthGrid; 
Wireless 'flooding' technology providing cheap e-health platform support to whole towns/cities

eHealth systems and emergency situations

Medical emergencies and communications; Detection emergencies situations; Medical resource allocation, 
optimization, and simulation; Real-time emergency situations management; Security and accuracy of 
emergency communications; Geolocalisation and optimization technology services for emergency fleet 
vehicles

Telemedicine/eHealth applications

Virtual telemedicine; Mobile eHealth services; Home monitoring and homecare applications; Wireless 
homecare; User-generated eHealth care; Personalized medicine; Wireless telemedicine ; Telehomecare 
technologies for the elderly; Automatic detection of infectious diseases

Telemedicine/eHealth services

Clinical telemedicine; Distributed surgery; Telemedicine and telehealth; Telepathology; Telecardiology; 
Telerehabilitation; Elderly and impaired patient services; Remote operational medicine; Remote 
consulting services; Telemedicare monitoring; Vital signs monitoring; Computer generated self care 
advice; Telemedicine handbag; Workflow approaches to improve healthcare intervention outcomes; Workflow 
to improve patient safety, decision support, and objective measurement of service quality; Support for 
evidence-driven integrated care pathways (ICP’s)

Social and financial aspects

Safety in telemedicine; Business models; Cost-benefit studies; Legal and ethical aspects; On-line 
payment and reimbursement issues; Ambient Assisted Living; Shared-care systems for eHealth; Privacy in 
the eHealth systems; Multi-lingual eHealth systems; Continuity in eHealth care; System simulations for 
business case development and risk reduction; Problem-independent (generic application) eHealth 
architecture; 'Lean' e-health workflows; ‘Relative risk' dashboards - how the patient's condition 
'sits' within population risk

Classical medicine and eHealth integration

Wide-area integration of eHealth systems; Current eHealth realizations and projects; Innovation in 
eHealth; Telemedicine portals; Standardization and interconnectivity of eHealth systems; Implementation 
of cross-border eHealth services; eHealth integration into routine medical practice; Affordable 
approaches to e-Health; eHealth acceptance with medical professionals and patients; Developing 
countries and eHealth; Distance education for eHealth; xHR standardization; Impact of ‘global’ 
integration standards and interoperability projects (e.g. CDA, IHE/XDS, SNOMED-CT, Continua Healthcare 
Alliance, IEEE11073, Common User Interface (CUI)

Preventive eHealth systems

Systematic risk analysis technologies for disease early detection and prevention; 'Patient path' hubs, 
mobile devices and/or dedicated home-based network computers; Information models for evaluation of 
disease progression risk/disease processes; Systems supporting quantitative healthcare (predictive 
outcomes) modeling; Health risk factor data collation and multiple longitudinal trend analyses; Support 
for disease prevention aimed at healthy individuals; Data aggregation and visualisation technologies 
for population-based reporting; 'Risk signature’ discovery to indicate optimal preventative or 
screening actions; Mapping SNOMED-CT terminologies to disease model archetypes; Quantitative 
individualized outcome risk analysis; Services for longitudinal data analysis/visualisation; Continuous 
workflow management across clinic, home and mobile locations

Challenges of large-scale, cost-effective eHealth systems

Integrated technology, social/behavioral and business modelling research for large-scale deployments; 
Total operational cost-effectiveness modelling; Lessons from large-scale telehealth/telecare 
demonstrators in different parts of the world; Standardised data collation infrastructures (data 
service layers); Impact of grid and service-oriented computing; Roles of global/international 
interoperability organisations (e.g. IHE and Continua); Scaleable multi-data trend management; Robust 
data collection along the ‘patient path’ for improved decision support; Delivery of ‘composite’ process 
functions (e.g. contributed by multiple vendor systems); Paths to semantically-harmonised eHealth 
systems; Semantic interoperability and openEHR archetypes; Applications of harmonised (standardised) 
datasets across multiple sites; Keeping technology simple and affordable

Nurse team applications

ePatient and eNurse tools that are simple to adopt and use; Public eHealth education & information; 
Life time health records; Primary care centers and home monitoring; Monitoring for signs and 
progression of complications; eHealth awareness, education and adoption; Mapping to individualized care 
plans; Continuous ‘closed loop’ outcomes analysis; Intervention measurement technologies; Personal 
target setting

Personalized eHealth

eHealth Systems in Mental Health; Preventive Systems and mobile activity monitoring; eHealth and life; 
Fundamentals in eHealth personalization; Wearable and implantable systems; Micro and nano eHealth 
sensors; Diagnostics using biosensors and textiles; Interacting with organic semiconductors; 
Personalized eHealth market; Personalized eHealth business models; Ubiquitous monitoring; Personalized 
eHealth and classical health networks; Trends in personalized eHealth; ICT solutions for patient 
self-management

Clinical telemedicine

Stroke (Acute stroke; Thrombolytic therapy; Transient ischemic attacks; Telestroke); Eplilepsy (Acute 
management of seizures, Follow-up strategies, management of complications); ICU (remote intubation, 
Management of acute respiratory distress); Cardiaology (EKG interpretation, Tele-Echo, Management of 
acute coronary syndromes); Pediatrics (Epilepsy, Cardiology-echo interpretation, Pediatrics 
emergencies)

Rural and wilderness eHealth

Rural health and eHealth programs; Rural medical practice; Healthcare challenges in rural areas; 
Provincial standards of emergency care; Diagnosing in rural areas; Wilderness emergency medicine; 
Developing and nurturing online communities for health; Rural self-health care

Environmental and travel telemedicine

Disease control and prevention; Geo-medical surveillance; Travel health-related products, drugs and 
vaccines; Altitude medicine; Oceanic medicine; Continuous monitoring of travelers' health; Self-health 
care

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