Apologies for multiple postings NetHealth 2013 Call for Papers --------------------------------------------- The human body is being increasingly instrumented and connected. The emergence of networked information technology for healthcare has already shown benefit in moving away from episodic to pervasive care. The availability of rich, perpetual, multi-modal data about physiological and psychological factors provides an opportunity to make critical real-time inferences not just about health but also behavior, beyond what is possible with infrequent clinical visits. We imagine future networked information systems will support, for example, clinical workflow, remote diagnosis and consultation, e-prescribing, and mobile data collection and surveillance, disease outbreak identification and patient participation in the comfort of familiar surroundings and care. Mobile technology can be a key enabler in improving access to healthcare (in terms of geography, economics and information), by encouraging personal health management, and by facilitating patient and provider mobility. Wearable medical devices are emerging, to measure essential vital signs like pulse, respiration, ECG, blood glucose level, and patient mobility. Handheld devices support clinicians in urban hospitals, and portable diagnostic kits allow remote healthcare teams to more easily reach rural villages. The widespread availability of mobile phones, and recent experiments with low-cost, long-range broadband wireless networks, bring connectivity to all these opportunities. We encourage papers that present novel ideas for networked computing technology in support of healthcare, and which are likely to invoke thoughtful discussion at the workshop. Research papers should focus on all aspects of networked healthcare technologies. Of interest, though not exclusively, are the following topics: - Remote diagnosis and remote consultation - Assistive medical technology - Clinical applications of mobile or networked healthcare - Mobile and wearable medical sensing applications - Design of wearable and home-care health devices - Sensor networks for public health monitoring and surveillance - Networked mobile technology for rural healthcare - Security and privacy in networked healthcare - Experience from technology deployments - Usability of mobile health applications and devices - Applications to emergency response and disaster response - Cost-efficient and energy-efficient networking for remote healthcare - Remote access to electronic health records - Assistive robotics and prosthetics - Rehabilitation engineering and assistive rehabilitative technology - Smart homes for tele-home healthcare and telemedicine Formatting Guidelines for Submitted Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------- The NetHealth workshop solicits paper submissions of up to 6 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted via the NetHealth submission site http://comsnets13.cs.umass.edu/nethealth/ in PDF. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and will include the final papers of up to 6 pages in length. All NetHealth technical papers must be associated with an author registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one full registration is valid for up to three papers. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Overall appearance: Submitted papers should adhere to the appearance of the standard IEEE twocolumn format that is used for IEEE Transactions. Margins: Papers must use a 10pt font on US Letter paper with margins no smaller than 0.75in for the top margin, 1.0in for the bottom margin, and 0.625in for side margins. Templates: Depending on whether you are using LaTeX or Microsoft Word for formatting your paper, you can download the following templates thatincorporate the formatting specifications: LaTeX: Paper http://www.ieee.org/documents/IEEEtran2.tar.gz , Bibliography http://www.ieee.org/documents/IEEEtranBST1.tar.gz Word : Paper and Bibliography http://www.ieee.org/documents/MSW_A4_format.doc Demo Session ---------------------- In addition, NetHealth 2013 will feature a demo session on the day of the workshop to allow industry and academic researchers to showcase their latestapplications andprototypes in all related topics. Demo proposals are invited for both mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries or universities. The submitted demo proposal should include all relevant technical content in a maximum of 2 pages in double column format. Each paper acceptance is subject to the conditions that the paper does not contain any plagiarized material and that the authors do not submit thepaper material inparallel to another publication venue. Violations of these conditions will most likely result in rejections of the violating submissions or evenalready accepted papers. Important Dates ----------------------- Paper Submission: October 28, 2012 Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2012 Camera-ready submission: December 2, 2012 Demo submission: December 7, 2012 Workshop date: January 7, 2013 Technical Program Co-Chairs -------------------------------------------- Zainul Charbiwala IBM Research, India (zainulcharbiwala@in.ibm.com) Anish Arora Ohio State University, USA (anish@cse.ohio-state.edu)