14th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom2012)
The 14th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom2012) will be held in Beijing, the capital city of China, from Oct. 10 to Oct. 13, 2012.
Healthcom 2012 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. It aims at bringing together interested parties from around the world working in the health care field to exchange ideas, to discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and to develop collaborations. eHealth is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and the related fields, including health-care related services, surveillance, literature, education, knowledge, and research, both at the local site and at a distance. It will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. The adoption of eHealth technologies in medical fields creates huge opportunities yet lots of challenges still need to be resolved to build reliable, secure, and efficient networks or platforms with great flexibility.
The topics include but are not limited to
Biomedical and biosensors engineering
Body sensor networks and wearable sensor systems
Clinical biofeedback, decision support systems, and tools
eHealth information and network Infrastructure
eHealth for public health (including disease prevention, emergency preparedness, epidemiologic interventions)
eHealth for ageing (to support quality of life for older adults, aging in place and independence)
Emerging eHealth applications
Health grid and health cloud
Health monitoring, traffic characterization, & management
ICT-enabled personal health system
Image and video processing on eHealth
Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare
New IT-enhanced Models for Healthcare delivery
Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth
Practical Applications of e-Health
Security and privacy on eHealth
Storage and Display Devices for eHealth
Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine
Workshop I: Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is an important part of medical science in the world. Chinese Medicine is good at prevention and prediction of diseases. But the typical methods of TCM mostly rely on doctors’ empirical experience, and a sophisticated collection of theories in a seemingly different paradigm from today’s mainstream western medicine. This might greatly restrict its applications and promotions. The development of information technologies has promoted the development and applications of TCM. It is becoming a revolutionary research method and technology development for data collection and management, data mining and analysis. This workshop will bring together researchers all of world who are interested in TCM to share research results, advances and practical experience, with the focus on using information technologies to solve issues on TCM. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
Modeling and Information standardization in TCM
Information management and sharing in TCM hospitals
Informationalization of health management and services in TCM
Architecture of healthcare information system for TCM
Development and applications of digital TCM techniques and equipments
Methods of diagnosis and treatment evaluation system in TCM
Prediction and monitoring modeling in TCM
Data gathering techniques in TCM
Analysis techniques for the clinical TCM data
Information techniques for the evaluation of personalized TCM treatment
Workshop II: Industrial Applications and Services on eHealth
Information technologies are becoming an ever-increasingly important part in the healthcare industry. Many companies around the world have successfully developed proprietary systems, tools and devices for their targeted applications in eHealth. But from an industry point of view, technologies alone are not enough for a significant advancement in an emerging market. How to combine government, medical institutions、insurance and other healthcare service providers together is a challenging issue. In particular, how to provide eHealth services with new service models to special demographic people, such as aging, maternal and children, disabled and rural people, are especially challenging. The goal of this workshop is to bring industrial partners together to share their experiences and exchange ideas in their practice of providing eHealth services. Topics include, but not limited to
eHealth service models for aging, maternal and children, disabled, and rural people
eHealth service deployment case study
eHealth and the Internet-of-Things
Person Health Records (PHRs) management and its applications
Chronic disease management through eHealth
Information sharing and interaction between different institutions, such as insurance, bank, government, hospitals for eHealth
