Medical Devices calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology: Using Technology to Facilitate Chronic Disease Management

Guest Editors:
Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, RMIT University, Australia

Chronic disease continues to be one of the leading causes of death and economic loss in most countries today. Hence, it has become a central problem for healthcare and many are looking for solutions.

Early detection and prevention of chronic disease is one of the preferred strategies for reducing the incidence of chronic disease and address escalating cost issues. It has been widely documented that assisting chronic disease management through information technology tends to facilitate better health outcomes. We are therefore seeing several health IT projects being initiated and successfully supporting chronic disease management.

This special issue aims to host a discussion and discourse on the possible applications of IS/IT (information systems/information technology) to facilitate better chronic disease management.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Facilitating standardisation via including care plans and guidelines for health information systems and developing decision support systems for assisting healthcare providers' decision making

Technology for delivery of care, e.g. artificial pancreases, implants, telemedicine, radiology, smart devices such as insulin pumps and implants

Electronic health records; health information systems; computerised guidelines; prevention; patient education; care and assistance for elderly people; lifestyle modifications such as physical activities, nutrition, weight management and mental health

Design and development of portals, communication platforms and/or the role of online social networks

Applications for mobile solutions to facilitate monitoring and/or management

Specific technology solutions to address better monitoring and management of asthma, diabetes, congenital heart disease, arthritis, chronic pain and obesity

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.

Important Dates

Papers due: 20 October, 2012

Review results: 31 January, 2013

Final paper due: 20 April 2013

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word or PDF file attached to an email (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Dr. Khin Than Win
University of Wollongong
Faculty of Informatics
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong, NSW 2522
Australia
Email: win@uow.edu.au

Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Epworth Chair Health Information Management
RMIT University
College of Business
GPO Box 2476
Melbourne, VIC 3001
Australia
E-mail: nilmini.wickramasinghe@rmit.edu.au

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors

Call for Papers for a Special Section of Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research: Smartphones, Sensors, and Social Networks: A New Age of Health Behavior Change

Submission Deadline November 30, 2012

For submission information: http://www.springer.com/medicine/journal/13142

Traditional health behavior change interventions have long been limited by high expense, patient burden, and poor adherence. As health professionals, our access to intervene upon patients’ behavior is constrained by current models of health care which limit care provision to face-to-face visits provided on a weekly schedule or less frequently. Limited access to patients limits our ability to gain an accurate understanding of the antecedents and consequences of behavior, and to intervene in the moments when patients most need help. Computing technology including mobile phones, sensors, and online social networks – by being available in real time – are being explored as ways to enhance our ability to understand health behavior and more effectively intervene upon it. mHealth, the application of mobile technology to health, has reached its tipping point. A rapidly growing body of research evidence demonstrates the efficacy of mHealth approaches across a wide range of conditions, populations, and settings. mHealth has also attracted a parallel explosion of industry attention. An extremely diverse group of companies are capitalizing on the mHealth market, which is projected to reach $23 billion in revenues by 2017. Sensing technologies are also rapidly being developed to gather behavioral, physiological, and contextual data that can then be used to predict behavior or deliver “just-in-time” interventions. Finally, online social networking, a service that allows individuals to interact and communicate with other users without geographical, physical, or logistical barriers has now been used for health surveillance, disseminating information and innovations, and health behavior intervention. The potential of these technologies to impact health behavior change has yet to be fully realized. The purpose of this special issue is to draw papers from academicians, clinicians, and industry professionals who are developing, testing, and/or researching the efficacy of these technologies for health behavior change.

Given that opportunities for academic-industry communication and collaboration have been too infrequent, we have seen relatively limited translation of evidence-based mHealth approaches into the real-world settings that are largely served by industry. We suspect that collaboration between industry and the research community might accelerate the growth of the mHealth market and improve the health of patients and populations. There are important barriers to such collaborations which we hope are explored and discussed further in this special issue. We hope to attract high quality contributions relating to the opportunities and challenges associated with stimulating academic-industry partnerships and creating evidence-based technology-based approaches to health behavior change. We acknowledge differences in the type of data that is collected by academics and industry professionals and aim to be a forum for both types of data, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of each. Traditional research reports are sought, but also case studies characterizing real world translation efforts, implementation challenges, and academic-industry partnerships are strongly encouraged. Additionally, synopses of practical tools and strategies, applications, and approaches are of interest. Selected manuscripts will be published together with commentaries in this special section of Translational Behavioral Medicine.

Editors of the Special Section:
Sherry Pagoto, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Gary Bennett, PhD, Duke University

Editor-in-Chief:
Bonnie Spring, PhD, Northwestern University

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) intends to publish a special issue on Therapeutic Ultrasound. Given that a sufficiently large number of papers are accepted, these papers will appear as a group in a separate publication which will be the second part of a regular issue. Examples of such special issues may be found in the part two's of the January 2002, March
2005, September 2008, and November 2011, and January, February, and March 2012 issues.

General Topic
Therapeutic ultrasound is becoming an important medical technology, with exciting new developments in science, instrumentation, and clinical applications. It is envisioned that this special issue will provide a comprehensive indication of the best work that is currently being done in this emerging and growing area, and that it will serve as an archival reference for future research eorts. Papers are solicited over the entire discipline, including topics on characterization and metrology of acoustic fields of therapeutic devices, physical mechanisms of ultrasound-induced bioeffects and dosimetry, instrumentation, and clinical aspects of such therapies as high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), lithotripsy and shock wave therapy, physiotherapy, low amplitude therapy, ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery, gene therapy, and others. However, prospective authors should note that papers published in JASA must fulll the requirement that the content must primarily focus on acoustics rather than be merely applicable to acoustics. Papers of a review nature will require special approval.

How to Submit Papers
Papers should be submitted in the usual manner for JASA via the Peer X-Press site. Go to the site http://asadl.org/jasa/ and click on the item "Submit to Journal."

When you submit a paper via the online submission process, you will ll out an outline form that is the same for all papers that are submitted. However, the form will include a new feature in the portion of the form that has a tab for "Keywords and PACS-43 Index Terms." There will be a drop down list at the bottom of the page that is labelled as "Special Issues." All special issues currently in progress will be listed in this drop-down list. The special issue you should select is TU (for Therapeutic Ultrasound).

To make doubly certain that your paper will be grouped with others intended for the special issue; you should upload a cover letter that identies the paper as intended for the special issue on Therapeutic Ultrasound. A footnote with such identication should also appear on the title page of the manuscript. Authors should also send an e-mail to the Guest Editors [Lawrence A. Crum (lac@apl.washington.edu) and Vera A. Khokhlova (vera@acs366.phys.msu.ru)] informing them of the submission. The editors reserve the right of deciding whether the topic of the submission is appropriate for the special issue, but all submitted papers will be considered for publication in the Journal.

Peer-review and editorial decisions of submitted articles will be handled with the usual processes, but those accepted for the special issue will be be grouped together for the publication in the special issue.

Deadlines and Relevant Dates
Papers intended for the special issue should be submitted before August 31, 2012. The intent is that all papers accepted on or before December 1, 2012, will be passed-on to the production department for publication as a special issue. It is recognized that the progression of submitted manuscripts through the JASA Peer X-Press system takes a variable amount of time, sometimes as long as a year, although 3 months is the desired objective. If a manuscript is not fully accepted before December 1, 2012, it is unlikely that it will be possible to include it in the special issue. It is highly unlikely that any manuscript submitted after August 31, 2012 will be accepted sufficiently rapidly to be included. The time taken to review a manuscript is difficult to estimate in advance, and authors are frequently asked to submit revisions before a paper is nally accepted. The best strategy, if one desires a manuscript to be included, is to submit it as soon as possible. Papers accepted after the deadline will be published in the Journal, but not in the special issue.

Introductory Editorial
A brief editorial introducing the topic and the papers will be written by the Guest Editors Lawrence A. Crum and Vera A. Khokhlova in collaboration with the authors of the accepted papers.

Call for Submissions: Neurology Clinical Practice

We are pleased to report that a separate online submission and review site for Neurology: Clinical Practice is now up and running (http://submit.cp.neurology.org). We eagerly encourage your contributions for consideration. Manuscripts submitted to this journal undergo the same thorough peer review as Neurology submissions. Please consult our Information for Authors (http://cp.neurology.org/site/misc/authCP.xhtml) for form, style, and submission requirements.

We have established some initial manuscript categories (below) and will expand these as needed. We welcome articles that are not strictly written to meet the specifications of the genres outlined below. All submissions should be geared directly to the practitioner (typically not primary research articles, but could be). Please include a discussion of issues that might be internationally pertinent, e.g., differences in other countries that might affect access and financial considerations, in addition to the medical issues, if they are relevant to the overall content of the article.

Clinical and Ethical Challenges

These articles explore problems faced by the practicing neurologist caring for a complex patient or addressing a challenging clinical problem or ethical dilemma.

Eye on Practice

These articles highlight issues related to office function, such as incorporation of electronic medical records, as well as discussions of health policy issues with special emphasis on changes in health care policy as they affect neurologists.

New Drugs and Devices

These articles apprise the practicing neurologist about new drugs and devices that will affect how they manage their patients' care.

Five New Things

These articles update practicing neurologists on emerging issues in various important fields on topics such as Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis, gliomas, and stroke.

Cases

Utilizing 2 different formats, short (an interesting image and brief discussion) and long (a full case with longer discussion), these submissions are interesting and timely cases with important teaching points.

Expert Discussion

These articles are opinion pieces solidly grounded in clinical care and the evidence base (or, if not, identified as such). They are meant to inform the reader, stimulate thought, and prompt discussion about clinical care. These often would be in the form of pro vs con discussions.

Call for Papers for a Focus Issue of the Journal of Materials Research: Silicon-Based Nanoparticles for Biosensing and Biomedical Applications

March 2013

Submission Deadline: May 30. 2012

The past few years have witnessed a major growth in the use of semiconductor nanoparticles in the fields of biosensing and biomedicine for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The tremendous progress in the field of nanotechnology has generated many techniques for the fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures with controlled composition, tailored properties, and multiple functionalities, and a diverse set of surface chemical reactions have been developed to allow their integration into biological systems. With physical dimensions comparable to many common biomolecules, semiconductor nanostructures are also employed in many hybrid nanoparticle-biomolecule systems. Silicon and silicon-based nanoparticles possess a number of unique properties important for biosensing and biomedicine applications, including low toxicity, biocompatibility, stable photoluminescence, dissolution in vivo, and natural abundance.

The March 2013 focus issue of Journal of Materials Research will bring together current activities in the fields of biosensing and biomedicine using silicon-based nanoparticles and nanostructures, including porous and non-porous silicon nanoparticles, mesoporous silicon oxide, and other nanostructured silicon compounds.

Contributed papers are solicited in the following areas:

Biosensing and chemical sensing
Drug delivery systems
In vivo imaging and medical diagnostics
Tissue engineering
Environmental monitoring
High throughput screening
Food safety
Security

GUEST EDITORS:

Raúl J. Martín-Palma, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Michael J. Sailor, University of California, San Diego, USA

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

To be considered for this issue, new and previously unpublished results significant to the development of this field should be presented. The manuscripts must be submitted via the JMR electronic submission system by May 30, 2012. Manuscripts submitted after this deadline will not be considered for the issue due to time constraints on the review process. Submission instructions may be found at www.mrs.org/jmr-instructions. Please select “Focus Issue: Silicon-based Nanoparticles for Biosensing and Biomedical Applications” as the manuscript type. All manuscripts will be reviewed in a normal but expedited fashion. Papers submitted by the deadline and subsequently accepted will be published in the Focus Issue. Other manuscripts that are acceptable but cannot be included in the issue will be scheduled for publication in a subsequent issue of JMR.

Please contact jmr@mrs.org with questions.

Call for Papers for a Theme Issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research: Internet of Things: Towards a Mobile and Ubiquitous Healthcare and Prevention

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is the leading international peer-reviewed and open access journal dealing with issues related to health, health care and medicine in the Internet age.

JMIR is the most cited journal on medical informatics, according to the Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR) index, with an Impact Factor of 4.7.

The evolution of the Internet towards the Future Internet with IPv6, Wireless Personal and Local Area Networks (e.g. 6LoWPAN, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi), mobile computing (e.g. smart phones, tablets), as well as the capabilities for global and uniqueness identification of objects (e.g. RFID, NFC), are making it feasible to identify, sense, locate, and connect people, machines, devices and everyday equipment.

These new capabilities to link Internet with everyday devices, forms of identification and communication among people and things, and exploitation of data capture, define the so-called Internet of things. This is opening an opportunity not only to extend the current e-Health approaches to a more pervasive and mobile healthcare prevention, by connecting citizens’/patients’ clinical and everyday devices to the Internet, but also to interconnect them with clinical platforms through the advantages from technologies such as smart clinical devices and wireless technologies. Furthermore, new identification and tracking solutions are being defined for hospital equipment, and new smart knowledge-based algorithms are developed to support personalized decision-making in the health and home care sector. Additionally, their applications in supplementary sectors such as pharmaceutical, in order to improve drug compliance and avoid adverse drugs reactions.

The objective of this issue is to report high quality research on recent advances developed in various aspects of e-health, more specifically the state-of-the-art approaches, methodologies, and systems in the design, development, deployment, and innovative use of the technologies, tools, and applications from the Future Internet of Things, People and Services for healthcare and prevention. We invite authors to submit their original papers and contributions addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:

-- Medical communications, protocols, standards and interoperability
-- Personal healthcare informatics solutions
-- Wireless Sensor Networks technologies for e-Health (e.g. 6LoWPAN/Bluetooth/WiFi)
-- Sensor technologies for e-Health and personal healthcare (e.g. ISO/IEEE 11073)
-- Identification technologies for e-Health, surgical and medical systems (e.g. QR/RFID/NFC)
- Wearable and continuous health monitoring
-- e-Health service management (e.g. Web of Things)
-- Elderly homecare, Tele-health, and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
-- Usability and HCI interfaces based on mobile computing and the Internet of Things
-- Personal Health Record, Information Systems, and Knowledge-Based Solutions
-- Global Healthcare and Citizens’ Prevention
-- Medication adherence, clinical guideline compliance and pharmaceutical applications
-- Tools and techniques to design, implement, and deploy IoT solutions
-- Mobile computing and Ubiquitous Healthcare applications
-- Living labs and field trials with the Internet of Things technologies

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the format and instructions hereto defined in the (www.jmir.org/cms/view/Instructions_for_Authors:Instructions_for_Authors_of_JMIR), and submitted through the Web-Based Manuscript Submission and Tracking System. When submitting, select section “Theme Issue on Internet of Things: Towards Mobile and Ubiquitous Healthcare and Prevention”, in the manuscript type to indicate that the paper is intended for this theme issue.

An OPEN CALL for submissions is issued. In addition, the best papers from the International Workshop on Extending Seamlessly to the Internet of Things (esIoT) will be invited to submit a manuscript. For further information, see www.esiot.com.

All contributions will be peer reviewed. As JMIR is an open access journal, authors publish their work under a creative commons license and keep the copyright. Articles will be freely accessible on the JMIR site and will be available in open access archives such as Pubmedcentral.gov.

These articles will be indexed in more than 20 bibliographic databases and abstracting services, including Medline, CINAHL, Information Science Abstracts, INSPEC (Institution of Electrical Engineers), Communication Abstracts, The Informed Librarian Online, LISA, EMBASE, Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded, PsycINFO, LISTA (Library / Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts), ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) database, CSA Social Services Abstracts database, Pubmed Central, and other databases and abstraction services. Publication costs (APF: article processing fee) for copyediting, and typesetting must be covered by the authors.

TIMELINE AND DEADLINES
-- DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: December 15th, 2012
-- PUBLICATION: The publication is scheduled to end 2013/beginning 2014

EDITOR-in-Chief
Gunther Eysenbach MD, MPH, FACMI.
Editor & Publisher, Journal of Medical Internet Research
University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

RECOMMENDATION: before submit your paper be awareness that JMIR is not an engineering journal, and it will not be published overly technical papers with no real-live application and a thorough evaluation. Therefore, it is required high-quality research articles with technical background, but this also should have a health angle, and an evaluation in hospitals, clinics, living labs, patient‟s homes, residencies, or Ambient Assisted Living scenarios.

For further information, please contact the Guest Editors or the Editor-in-Chief

The Journal of Emergency Nursing is looking for manuscripts particularly for the topics listed below, but is interested in any papers related to emergency nursing and emergency patient care.

-- Advanced Practice Issues
-- Cardiology
o Cardiac Arrhythmia Management in Emergency Care
o Management of Cardiac Problems
o Medications (including review of old and new medications)
o Protocols
o Management of Technological Cardiac Problems in the Emergency
Department (for example, LVAD)
-- Caring for Victims of Torture
-- Case Studies
-- The Challenges of Emergency Nursing and the Aging Workforce
-- Clinical Articles
-- Clinical Nurse Specialist Issues and Interests
-- Continuing Education Challenges
-- Critical Care Issues in the Emergency Department
-- Current Trends in Emergency Care Treatments: some examples
o Wound care
o Splinting
o Resuscitation
o Sepsis
-- “Cutting Edge” Procedures
-- Dealing with Cultural Diversity
-- EKG Interpretation
-- Emergency Care Policy and Advocacy

-- Emergency Management
-- Emergency Nurse Practitioner Roles and Cases
-- Emergency Nursing Pearls
-- Emerging Issues in Emergency Healthcare
-- Endocrinology Emergencies
o Diabetic Emergencies
o Diabetes Evaluation in the Emergency Department
-- Forensic Nursing
-- Geriatric Issues
-- How to Write for Publication
-- Implementation of Patient Care Standards
-- Infection Control in the Emergency Department
-- Information on Charging, Coding
-- Information on Use of Fast Tracks and Urgent Care Units
-- Injury Prevention Programs
-- International Emergency Nursing Practice
-- JCAHO Standards and How to Implement Them in the Emergency Department
-- Lab Value Interpretation
-- Leadership Topics
o What it Takes to be a Leader
o Leadership Examples
-- Legal Practice Issues
-- Legislative Updates: What Have You Done in Your City, State?
-- Lessons Learned from and Solutions Developed for Specific Emergency Department Situations
-- Management Issues
o Staffing
o Recruitment and Retention
--Management of the Patient with a Psychiatric Emergency
-- Military Emergency Nursing/Deployed Nursing
-- Nursing Exemplars
-- Obstetrics and Gynecological Emergencies
-- Orientation and Competency Training and Evaluation
-- Patient Assessment in the Emergency Department
-- Patient Flow Issues
-- Patient Safety Issues Specific to the Emergency Department
-- Pediatric Care and Challenges in the Emergency Department
-- Prehospital Issues
-- Protocols and Guidelines
-- Research Related to Emergency Nursing and Emergency Practice
-- Safety Stories (near misses and lessons learned)
-- Sexual Assault Issues, SANE Articles
-- Trauma Care and Patient Management
-- Use of Specific Equipment and its Application to Practice (in other words, does it work?)
-- Volunteer Experiences

If interested, please contact Reneé Holleran, JEN Editor, at
RHolleran@ena.org

Biomedical Engineering Society Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship

The Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award is awarded each year to recognize an individual's outstanding achievements and leadership in the science and practice of biomedical engineering. The awardee is expected to deliver a plenary lecture at the Annual Meeting in the fall and publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. A very important purpose of the lecture is to critically review a field of biomedical engineering and offer a vision of its future.

Conditions

1. The award is intended to recognize a high level of originality and leadership in an area of biomedical engineering. The awardee may have achieved excellence in biomedical engineering by contributions within the setting of the university, industry, or government.
2. Solicitation of nominations for the award will be announced in the BMES Bulletin on a timely basis.
3. The awardee's contributions are not required to precede the award date by any specific period of time.
4. The Awards Committee will screen the nominations, critically evaluate the nominee's records, and submit a rank-ordered list of the top three nominees to the BMES President. The President, will select the awardee.
5. Applicants must be a member of BMES in good standing.

This award consists of a plaque, a $1,500 check, a complimentary registration for the Annual Meeting, and travel expenses up to $1,000.

Please fill out the application form, with a letter describing the nominee's service (s) to biomedical engineering, the nominee's Curriculum Vita/Resume, and any other letter (s) of support, not to exceed 5 letters. Email to regina@bmes.org at BMES by May 31st.

Call for Authors: EMPSF Forum, a Quarterly Electronic Newsletter Published by the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation

The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation publishes a quarterly electronic newsletter called the EMPSF Forum. A hard copy of the Forum is printed in the fall and is distributed at the ACEP Scientific Assembly and other conferences including the EMPSF Annual Patient Safety Summit. EMPSF is looking for authors to write articles of interest to emergency department practitioners, nurses, emergency medical services, pharmacists and others in the area of patient safety in emergency care.

Areas of particular interest include, see added topics below:

Handoffs
Boarding
Overcrowding
Patient flow
Medication safety
Communication
Workplace violence
Disruptive behavior
Fatigue
Teamwork
Equipment issues and safe design
Human factor engineering
Falls
MRI safety
Safety of culture
Safe injection practices
Radiology reports
Behavioral health patients boarded in the ED
Preventing unnecessary readmissions and visits to the ED
Discharge instructions and other safe practices
Emergency Medical Services
Telemedicine
Summary of information in the area of patient safety, legal, or risk that would be of interest to emergency department staff including ED nurses and physicians.

To be accepted articles must:

have proper permission if submitting as a reprint
be technically accurate
be based on evidenced based research
adhere to the American Medical Association style guidelines
summarize important events, guidelines, toolkits, or standards of care of interest to emergency department staff

Articles should be double spaced, excluding references, charts, and figures. There is no guarantee that all submissions will be published. EMPSF reserves the right to select articles that best fit with their mission and vision. All articles are subject to editing. Articles are copyrighted by EMPSF. Submissions can be made to the following

Sue Dill Calloway
Chief Learning Officer
614 791-1468
sdill1@columbus.rr.com