Conferences
17–20 September 2018, Ostrava, Czech Republic
20th IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services
The 20th IEEE Healthcom 2018 conference will be held in Ostrava, nowadays one of the fastest growing city for the deployment of IT technologies and smart solutions in central Europe. In respect to our recent history, when Ostrava was called the “iron heart” of our country because of the mining and steel-making plants, we would like to introduce the traditional way of life in our region to you together with the renaissance of our city, now mixing in symbiosis the history with modernity. Our region is famous not only for its beautiful nature, many unique historical places hidden to mass tourism, hospitality and industrial history but also for several famous personalities born close to Ostrava city like Sigmund Freud, Vilem Wunche, Joy Adams and Leos Janacek.
During the conference we would like to focus on several topics connected with E-health networking, applications and systems in biomedical engineering.
The 2018 edition of Healthcom conference will also focus on e-Health in smart regions from all possible perspectives, because Ostrava agglomeration will soon become the first smart region in central Europe.
The 2018 conference puts emphasis not only on the quality organization and the benefit of the scientists and experts’ communications and meetings, but also on the cooperation with industrial partners. We will balance the professional side of the conference with unconventional and full-fledged culture and leisure activities.
We hope you will enjoy the 20th IEEE Healthcom 2018 conference, which we organize as a professional meeting which gives every participant the feeling of belonging to an outstanding scientific community but a friendly group as well.
Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the eHealth area. The topics include but are not limited to
Medical, Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic prescription
- Data preprocessing, cleansing, management and mining
- Data quality assessment and improvement
- Medical imaging
- Computer-aided detection, hypothesis generation and diagnosis
- Evidence-based medicine
- Evolutionary and longitudinal patient and disease models
- Clinical workflow
- Medication adherence and health monitoring
- Smart health and big data
- Deep IoT analysis
- M2M
Devices
- High-confidence medical devices
- Integration of medical devices with e-Health
- Medical device interoperability
- Wearable devices
- In/on/around-body sensors and actuators
- Biosensors at the micro/nano-scale
- Smart garments/textiles
- Wireless energy transfer
- Energy harvesting
- Device security
Communications and Networking
- Communication/network infrastructures, architectures and protocols for e-Health
- 5G
- Soft-SIM technology
- Narrowband technology
- Antennas and propagation
- Proximity-based communication, group communication and social networks
- Power-efficient communication
- Ultra-wideband communication
- Delay-tolerant, fault-tolerant and reliable communication
- Cognitive communication for medical bands
- In-hospital networking, body area networking and cloud-integrated networking
- Software-defined networks and network management
- Network Function Virtualization
- Nanoscale/molecular communications
- Network coding and error detection/correction
- Resilience and robustness
- Security
Signal/Data Processing and Systems
- Context awareness and situation awareness
- Image/video processing and computer/robot vision
- Internet of Things, Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing
- Augmented reality and human-computer interaction
- Motion detection and activity recognition
- User modeling and personalization
- Robotics
- Computing/storage infrastructures for e-Health such as clouds and virtualization
- Software, systems and performance engineering for e-Health
- Security
Services and Applications
- e-Health services/applications for physical and mental health; for example, in acute care, chronic care, mental health care, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, prosthetics, elderly/nursing care, smart homes and hospitals, and rural/wilderness practice.
- e-Health services/applications for sports and exercise; for example, in training prescription and feedback, concussion detection/monitoring, life-logging and fitness monitoring.
- e-Health services/applications for public health; for example, disease prevention, pandemic preparedness, epidemiological interventions and smart cities.
- e-Health services/applications for extreme environments; for example, in firefighting, disaster response, evacuation assistance, medical triage, space travel/exploration, deep diving and deep sea exploration
- m-Health applications and software
- Quality of experience (QoE) with e-Health services/applications.
- Security, privacy and trust for e-Health services/applications
- Emerging cloud-based services/applications including health clouds/grids
System Research
- Standardization
- Requirements Engineering
- Social technological alignment
- E-health and m-health governance
- Quality of care
- Business modeling
- Supply chain management
- Anti-counterfeiting
- Smart Pharmaceuticals
- Global e-health strategies
- Tagging and tracking
- Work flow
- Patient flow
E-Health Solutions to Challenging Problems
- Telemedicine for rural area
- Aging problems and intelligent care
- Bioinformatics and precision medicine
- Smart agriculture for human health
Medical Doctors section
- e-Health case studied - applications
- e-Health challenges from M.D. point of view
