Health Technology calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Presentations: 2012 Medical Electronics Symposium

September 26-27, 2012 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Co-Sponsored by ASU’s School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

MEPTEC and SMTA are again partnering to present a two day Medical Electronics symposium which will cover a broad spectrum of topics highlighting innovative technologies and related issues in medical electronic applications and devices.

The two-day technical program titled “Medical Electronics Technology, Personal Health and the Economy -- Drivers for Positive Business Growth” will be held September 26-27, 2012 at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.

There is significant economic momentum and interest in the areas of personal healthcare and the global healthcare industry in general, which continue to drive positive business trends.

This symposium will bring together technical and business professionals from the medical electronic and relevant industries to present current perspectives on the economic and industry trends as well as state-of-the-art technologies for medical applications. Current enabling technology advancements that will be utilized to improve the next generation of existing medical electronic products, along with the challenges associated with the complex regulatory and reliability requirements, will be presented by industry experts.

Deadline for abstracts is May 29, 2012.

Session topics include:

• Market Trends and Issues in Medical Electronics

• Technologies Advancing Implantable Devices

• Emerging Trends in Components

• Requirements Beyond Electronics to Bring a Product to Market

• Medical Standards, Regulatory & Compliance - meeting global requirements

• Integrating Process Excellence into Design Control

• Advanced Medical Electronics Packaging Technology

• Emerging Surgical Procedures

The abstract and presentation must be non-commercial in nature and emphasize the medical technology and not the company portfolio. Please include your contact information (address, phone number, email address) and a presentation title with your abstract submission.

Please provide an abstract of 300 words minimum on any of the topics above by email to bcooper@meptec.org (for first four topics) or patti@smta.org (for last four topics).

There is no technical paper requirement for this symposium. Presentations are due on August 31, 2012.

SMTA Headquarters:
5200 Willson Road, Suite 215
Edina, MN 55424
Phone: (952) 920-7682

Call for Papers: Managing Interoperability & compleXity in Health Systems

held in conjunction with the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM’12

October 29 to November 2, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA

Workshop Submissions Due: June 29, 2012

Topics of interest, include but are not limited to:

-- Bio-medical Data-Mining, Information retrieval and extraction and NLP on biomedical text

-- Inference and statistical Models of diseases & Multimorbidity

-- Clinical Information Retrieval, Management and Normalization

-- Medical Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Expert and Clinical Decision Support Systems -- Interoperability in Distributed healthcare Systems

-- Clinical Information and Interoperability Standards (e.g. HL7) Clinical Terminologies, Classifications (e.g. ICD 10) and
biomedical ontologies (e.g. SNOMED - CT)

-- Hospital Enterprise Information Management Systems, Electronic Health Record, (EHR), Clinical Document Architecture

To submit your paper, go to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mixhs12

Call for Papers: International Telecommunication Union Kaleidoscope 2013 Building Sustainable Communities Academic Conference

22–24 April 2013, Kyoto, Japan

Kaleidoscope 2013 Building Sustainable Communities is the fifth in a series of peer-reviewed academic conferences organized
by ITU that brings together a wide range of views from universities, industry and research institutions of different fields. The aim of Kaleidoscope conferences is to identify emerging developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at an early stage to generate successful products and services through the development of international and open standards.

Future technologies should be designed to enhance the quality of human life. Kaleidoscope 2013 will, therefore, highlight multidisciplinary aspects of future ICTs including future services and applications demand as well as socio-economic, cultural, ethical, legal, and sustainable development policy aspects of communities of the future.

ICTs can be used as a catalyst for transforming life to meet the challenges of the new millennium, including global economic and
financial crises, high unemployment rates, accessibility issues, global diseases, food availability and distribution, climate change,
environmental disasters, energy consumption, transport systems, safety, security, and welfare.

Sustainable communities will combine human-oriented technologies and human values.

Besides technical issues, building sustainable communities also raises ethical concerns such as responsibility for future generations and for the environment, as well as for data and information privacy. Therefore, an improved understanding of technology, its suitable application, and a high consideration of its potential consequences are necessary.

To address these issues, and for a co-evolution of technology and sustainable communities, standards are indispensable. Developing these standards will require concerted global efforts by inter-sectoral stakeholders. This conference will help to further such collaborations.

Building Sustainable Communities is calling for original academic papers offering innovative and bold approaches in research
and development to build smart, ethical, and sustainable communities.

Submission of papers
Prospective authors, from countries that are Members of ITU, are invited to submit complete, original papers with a maximum
length of 4,500 words within eight pages including summary and references, using the template available on the event website.
Paper proposals will be evaluated according to content, originality, clarity, relevance to the conference’s theme and, in particular, significance to future standards.

Suggested (non-exclusive) list of topics

Track 1: Technology and architecture evolution

-- Long-distance and ultra-high-speed transmission network systems (terabit, exabit)
-- Disaster relief systems, network resilience and recovery
-- Wireless sensor networks
-- Optical wireless communication
-- Human-centric, cognitive and context-aware systems
-- Machine-to-machine communication and Internet of Things
-- Body-area networks
-- Near-field communications
-- Environmental and biometric actuators and sensors
-- Security and privacy-enhancing technologies
-- Pervasive and trusted network and service infrastructure
-- Mobility and nomadicity
-- Adaptive antenna techniques

Track 2: ICT applications and services for sustainable communities

-- e-government and e-democracy
-- e-learning and e-science
-- e-agriculture
-- e-health and telemedicine
-- Ageing and ambient assistive living
-- Smart cities: utilities, transport, buildings and homes
-- Innovative applications and content delivery (IPTV, games, etc.)
-- Mobile payment and money transfer
-- Augmented reality and technology intelligence
-- Location-based services
-- Service layer requirements
-- XaaS (Anything as a Service)
-- QoS for differentiated source
-- Location services

Track 3: Social, economic and policy aspects of ICT in sustainable communities

-- Digital rights and identity management
-- Societal impact
-- Legislative and regulatory frameworks
-- Security, confidentiality and privacy
-- Accessibility and usability
-- Business models (including accounting, billing and charging)
-- Standardization models
-- Network neutrality
-- Inclusiveness, affordability and equal access
-- Internationalization and localization
-- Environmental sustainability
-- Ethical issues
-- Regulation (for QoS, network sharing, etc.)
-- Standardization and innovation management
-- Stakeholder perceptions in standards
-- Standards in healthcare services

Deadlines
Submission of full paper proposals: 10 September 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: 12 November 2012
Submission of camera-ready accepted papers: 3 December 2012

Contact: kaleidoscope@itu.int

Call for Papers: Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference on Mathematics of Medical Devices and Surgical Procedures

Extended deadline

Mathematics is playing an ever increasing role in the area of health and medicine, through the use of modelling, statistics, and virtual simulations. These mathematical tools are becoming invaluable in testing the feasibility of surgical procedures and medical devices prior to clinical trials. Furthermore, there is a very realistic possibility over the next twenty years that computer models coupled to patient-specific imaging will be used in real time in the clinical environment to directly advise on treatment strategies. The aim of this conference is to bring together the diverse community of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, clinicians involved in using applied sciences and mathematics to develop and use medical devices to discuss both the latest research and the needs of the clinical community and patients.

The topics that will be discussed will broadly include cardiovascular devices, medical imaging, ophthalmology, cell biology, disease transmission, orthopaedic, advanced simulations, as well as health in ageing. The conference programme will include keynote speakers drawn from both clinical and mathematical communities, along with contributed presentations and poster sessions. The programme will also include breakout sessions in certain topics as well as refreshment breaks for informal discussions. Social events include a drinks reception and a conference dinner.

Call for Papers instructions:
Papers will be accepted for the conference based on a 250 word abstract for oral presentation. Abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1 June 2012 either online at http://online.ima.org.uk or by e-mail to conferences@ima.org.uk.

Please state whether your title is intended for oral or poster presentation. Oral presentations are expected to be 20 minutes in length, including time for questions and answers.

Abstracts are expected to follow the following template:

Title
Contributing author(s) Surname, Initials
Affiliation(s) Department, organisation.

Abstract: 250 words - text only.

Contact information
For scientific queries please contact Ian Eames (i.eames@ucl.ac.uk) or Nick Ovenden (nicko@math.ucl.ac.uk).
For general conference queries please contact Lizzi Lake, Conference Officer
E-mail: conferences@ima.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1702 354 020
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF, UK.

Call for Abstracts: Diabetes Technology Meeting

November 8-10, 2012 Bethesda, Maryland

Submit online to: http://www.diabetestechnology.org/abstract_submission_form.shtml

Deadline for submission: July 1, 2012

Acceptance Notification: Late August 2012

Abstract Topic Areas:
Researchers are encouraged to submit an Abstract of their work on diabetes technology, including but not limited to any of the major topics of the meeting:

Glucose monitoring
Insulin and metabolic peptide delivery
Artificial pancreas
Bioartificial pancreas
Cell phone management
Bolus dose calculation
Information technology
Physiologic monitoring
Software for modeling
Hypoglycemia detection
Diagnostic tests of glycation
Insulin pump and pen therapy
Diabetes telemedicine
Improving adherence to therapy using technology
Tests for complications
Technology for managing obesity

Selection Criteria
• Material must not have been presented or published previously.
• The subject area selected will be varied so that a balanced program can be produced.
• All applications must be submitted using the online submission process.

Call for Papers: 2nd International Conference on Global Telehealth - GT2012

“Delivering Quality Healthcare Anywhere Through Telehealth”

25 - 28, 2012 November Sydney, Australia

Telehealth, including telemedicine, patient monitoring and associated eHealth considerations, is currently experiencing a rapid expansion in adoption worldwide. Deployment of new information and communications technologies, and their enabling systems and infrastructure, offer many emerging avenues for implementation of Telehealth solutions. Widespread initiatives by public and private sector health providers with government reimbursement and regulatory support are transforming previously small scale activities into widespread adoption. This situation provides a great opportunity to raise levels of access and increase quality of healthcare globally.

The Telehealth domain of interest covers a broad scope: from enabling direct clinical interventions and interactions by real-time or store-forward processes, to communicating and managing health information in electronic formats, to patient centred care needs such as personal monitoring and care team support, and to education, policy and professional aspects. Mainstream activities in healthcare systems internationally address these areas, and so this conference provides a platform for sharing of best practice and directions.

Telehealth is also acting as a major change driver in global health, particularly in underserved regions and emerging countries. This is aided by the rapid uptake of leapfrog technologies such as mobile wireless communications and portable computing devices, and the deployment of new models and processes of healthcare. The conference will give special emphasis to this sector and particularly invites participation by representatives from Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America.

Contributions are sought addressing current research and practice in Telehealth, including (but not limited to):

• clinical applications of telemedicine
• teleconsultation and telecollaboration
• teleprocedures and robotic surgical methods
• telecare and remote patient monitoring
• tele-education and clinical training
• evaluation and benefits of telehealth
• web services for telehealth
• mobile telehealth and wireless applications
• telehealth software and systems
• telehealth technologies and methodologies
• telehealth for remote areas
• telehealth in emerging countries
• telehealth policy and governance
• international trends and perspectives for telehealth

Original unpublished contributions in all fields of Telehealth (and closely related areas of eHealth) are invited. These may be offered as Full Papers (maximum 8 pages or approx 4000 words, not previously published) subject to expert peer review by an international program committee of technical experts, or as extended abstract Short Papers (maximum 2 pages or approx 1000 words) also subject to peerl review. Full Papers will appear in a commercially published and indexed monograph or may be considered for invited journal publication. Short Papers will appear in proceedings to be distributed to delegates at the event.

Submissions must contain a clear statement of aims, methods, results and conclusions for the work reported. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to the conference, and presentation. Submission of a Full Paper or Short Paper will imply an undertaking that, should it be accepted, at least one author will register and attend the conference to present the work. Submissions should be made by following the instructions on the conference website, using the style guide provided.

Submission of Full and Short Papers: Friday 28 July 2012
Notification of acceptance to authors: Friday 25 August 2012
Camera-ready copy for proceedings: Friday 8 September 2012
Author & Early-bird registration deadline: Friday 8 September 2012

The conference will offer a limited number of half-day Workshops, for presentation of “work-in-progress” on thematically related sets of current Telehealth projects, and half-day Tutorials, for experts to provide concentrated overviews on topics of contemporary interest. These associated events will be available to delegates at very modest fees. Persons interested in offering to organise either a Workshop or a Tutorial should e-mail a 1 page summary of their proposal (including details of coverage, and names and affiliations of any intended presenters) to the organisers by the above Submission date. Other satellite events may be organised on the first day.

General Co-Chairs: Prof Anthony Maeder, University of Western Sydney & Prof Mohamed Khadra, University of Sydney
Program Co-Chairs: A/Prof Anthony Smith, University of Queensland & Dr Robert Eikelboom, University of Western Australia
Organising Co-Chairs: Dr Laurie Wilson, CSIRO ICT Centre & Dr David Allen, Quality Occupational Health

More Information: http://www.aths.org.au/GT2012/

Call for Abstracts: 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making

"Designing Health Information Technology for Better Health Decisions"

October 17 - 21, 2012 Phoenix, Arizona

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, May 18, 2012, 11:00pm PDT.

Scientific abstracts for oral or poster presentation are welcome in a wide range of topics relevant to medical decision making.

Call for Papers: 3rd AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference: Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine: the Intersection of the Lab, the Clinic and the Community

Abstract & Paper deadline: 10 September 2012

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Society are pleased to announce the 3rd AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference: Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine: the intersection of the lab, the clinic and the community in Houston, TX, on 7th-9th November 2012 at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute in the Texas Medical Center.

This conference is devoted to the exploration of the intersection of engineering, medicine, and health. Emphasis will be placed on novel innovations that have a foreseeable impact on human health and disease. Specific areas of interest include Imaging; Nano Medicine; Data Mining and the Use of Large Datasets; Remote Sensing; Networks & Communication; Applied Metabolomics; Aerospace and Harsh Environments; and Global Health.

We invite participation by physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industrial leaders, government agencies and policy makers. The conference will be inaugurated by a keynote lecture and evening reception on Wednesday, 7th November. The following two days will feature plenary, break-out sessions and poster presentations focusing on Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine. Authors interested in submitting manuscripts can either submit a 1 page abstract or a 4 page paper.

Accepted papers may be considered for publication in IEEE PULSE or The IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine (to be launched in 2013).

Call for Papers: MICCAI Workshop on Clinical Image-Based Procedures: From Planning to Intervention

CLIP 2012 October 5th, 2012, Nice, France

Submissions due June 8th

Scope

There has been considerable interest over the last years in the development and evaluation of new translational techniques for clinical image-based planning and interventions at the cutting edge of modern procedures in the hospital. This workshop aims to fill the gap between basic science and clinical applications by focusing on the clinical translations of state-of-the-art methods with a special emphasis on image-based planning and interventions.

Workshop Topics

--Challenges and emerging techniques in image-based procedures
--Clinical translation of image-based techniques for planning and intervention
--Error analysis in image-based procedures
--Navigation and tracking: tool tracking, organ tracking, and tumor tracking
--Computational anatomy and image analysis: modeling, segmentation, simulation
--Personalization of patient models to support interventions
--Inter- and intra-modality registration
--Visualization for operation planning
--Multimodal image-based planning and guidance
--Clinical applications in open and minimally invasive surgery
--Clinical validation of image-guided systems
 

Call for Papers: 3rd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI 2012)

In conjunction with MICCAI 2012, October 1, 2012, Nice, France

Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) 2012 is the third in a series of workshops on this topic, being held with MICCAI 2012 in Nice, France. This workshop focuses on major trends and challenges in this area, and it presents work aimed to identify
new cutting-edge techniques and their use in medical imaging. Our goal is to help advance the scientific research within the broad field of machine learning in medical imaging. The technical program will consist of previously unpublished, contributed papers, with substantial time allocated to discussion. We are looking for original, high-quality submissions on innovative research and development in the analysis of medical image data using machine learning techniques.

Topics of interests

Machine learning methods with their applications to

• Medical image analysis of anatomical structures and lesions
• Computer-aided detection/diagnosis
• Multi-modality fusion for diagnosis, image analysis and image guided interventions
• Image reconstruction
• Image retrieval
• Cellular image analysis
• Molecular/pathologic image analysis
• Dynamic, functional, physiologic, and anatomic imaging

Key Dates
• Paper Submission: June 1, 2012
• Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2012
• Camera-ready Version: July 24, 2012
• Workshop: October 1, 2012