Call for Papers

Conference Aims

Pervasive Health Conference is a premier international forum with specific focus on technologies and human factors related to the use of ubiquitous computing in healthcare and for wellbeing. The overall goal of the Pervasive Health Conference is to take a multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and development. The Pervasive Healthcare Community is addressing a broad scope of research topics and concerns:

    identify and understand problems from a technological, social, medical, and legal as well as financial perspective (with a particular emphasis on understanding and supporting patients’ and practitioners’ needs);
    design, implementation, and evaluation of supporting hardware and software infrastructures, algorithms, services and applications; and
    organizational strategies that facilitate integration of Pervasive Healthcare Technology into the healthcare enterprise.

Traditional healthcare environments are extremely complex and challenging to manage, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies seek to respond to a variety of these pressures by successfully integrating them within existing healthcare environments. Technologies, standards and procedures on their own provide little and or no meaningful service. It is essential that pervasive healthcare environments, through a combined approach of data collection, data correlation and data presentation, assist healthcare professionals in delivering high levels of patient care, and empower individuals and their families for self-care and health management.

The Pervasive Healthcare Conference aims to gather technology experts, practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based technologies, standards and procedures.
Highlights

    The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT.

    Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST\'s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

    The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work through one of the following EAI endorsed publications:
        ​EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments

We welcome contributions from the following fields:

    Sensing/Actuating Technologies and Pervasive Computing
    Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions
    Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
    Hardware and Software Infrastructures

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

Pervasive Healthcare Management

    Challenges surrounding data quality
    Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare
    Business cases and cost issues
    Security and privacy issues
    Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare
    Legal and regulatory issues
    Staffing and resource management

Understanding Users

    Identifying and addressing stakeholder needs
    Usability and acceptability
    Barriers and enablers to adoption
    Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion
    Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services
    Patient and caregiver empowerment
    Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements
    Inclusive research and design: engaging underrepresented populations
    Digital interventions and health behavior change

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

    Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data
    Activity recognition and fall detection
    User modelling and personalization
    Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environments
    Sensor-based decision support systems
    Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors
    Wearable and implantable sensor integration
    Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments
    Data mining of medical patient records
    Software architectures
    Electronic Health Records           

Applications

    Autonomous systems to support independent living
    Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies
    Telemedicine and mHealth solutions
    Chronic disease and health risk management applications
    Health/Wellbeing promotion and disease prevention
    Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring
    Continuous vs event-driven monitoring of patients
    Smart homes and hospitals
    Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient data
    Wellbeing and lifestyle support
    Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision impairments
    Systems to support caregivers