CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2017)

Lund, Sweden, September 18-20, 2017

Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-17/ http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-17/

Important Dates: Workshop Proposals: March 31, 2017 Paper Submission Due: May 1, 2017 Author Notification: June 21, 2017 Final Manuscript Due: July 21, 2017

ICTH is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from academia and healthcare who are engaged in different facets of ICT and healthcare. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of ICT based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of health/medical care, and related domains, such as public health and pharmaceuticals. Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related topics of interests.

Lund University is a strong influence on Lund city, and several university buildings are located in the heart of the city. The combination of businesses, students and researchers from around the world has given birth to Lund's unique character as a city of strong research-based global industries. The Malmö region, including Lund, is the 4th most inventive region in the world. Sweden’s first and most successful research park, Ideon, is situated in Lund, and the country’s two largest research ventures, MAX IV Laboratory and the European Spallation Source (ESS) are located here. The students at Lund University comprise a large part of the population of the city and consequently have a significant impact on it and contribute to the youthful, laid-back atmosphere. The young population influences all aspects of life in Lund, from the daily rhythm of the city, to city planning, pubs and bars, museums and countless cultural and leisure activities. The combination of old traditions and history together with the bustling student life makes Lund a great place to live and study!

Accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com http://www.elsevier.com/ and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com http://www.sciencedirect.com/), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com http://www.scopus.com/) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/ http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com http://www.scopus.com/) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com http://www.engineeringvillage.com/). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex http://www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/ http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652 http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, by IGI Global: (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distributed-systems-... http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distributed-systems-technologies/1164) International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, by IGI Global: (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-commu... http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-communications/1158)

ICTH-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-17/ http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-17/).

We invite submissions on either completed or ongoing work. Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 5 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and references. We encourage students to submit short papers or works in progress, and welcome proposals on workshops in areas of special interest to participants.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems Clinical Data and Knowledge Management Cloud Computing for Healthcare Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare Data Visualization Decision Support Systems in Healthcare Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare Digital Hospitals Drug Information Systems E-health & m-health Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR) Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Healthgrids Health Portals Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications Quantified Self for Pervasive Healthcare Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare RFID Solutions for Healthcare Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments Telemedicine and Health Telematics Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare Usability & Socio Technical studies User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare Virtual Environments for Healthcare

Committees

General Chair Heiko Gewald, The Neu-Ulm University of Applied, Germany Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil

Program Chairs Stephane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA

Workshops Chairs Philipp Brune, The Neu-Ulm University of Applied, Germany Wael M. El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium Björn A Johnsson, Lund University, Sweden

Advisory Committee Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Francesco Princiroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada

Björn A. Johnsson Doctoral student

Dept. of Computer Science, Lund University

Ole Römers väg 3, SE-223 63 Lund +46 46 222 96 42 cs.lth.se/bjorn_a_johnsson http://cs.lth.se/bjorn_a_johnsson