IREHI17: International Rural and Elderly Health Informatics Conference University of Lomé Lomé, Togo, December 13-17, 2017 |
Conference website | http://ieee-rural-elderly-health.com |
Abstract registration deadline | July 25, 2017 |
Submission deadline | August 15, 2017 |
Notification of acceptance | September 26, 2017 |
Camera-ready submission | October 16, 2017 |
Focus | Rural and Elderly health informatics |
Call for Papers
Introduction
Worldwide, public health care is facing diverse kind of care delivery issues.
High income countries are facing exploding medical costs primarily due to the growing percentage of elderly people. Elderly are the fastest growing demographic group in developed countries. The UN forecasts that by 2050, elderly (60 years et and older) would constitute more than 20% of the world population. In developed countries, nursing home provides adequate care services to elderly; nevertheless, elderly people prefer staying at home in their familiar and usual social environment and take care of their health by themselves as long as they are able to. Home care applications are therefore increasingly in demand.
However, rural areas, particularly in developing countries, are suffering from poor access to health care services. The reasons are poor health care infrastructures, inappropriate public health structure, lack of health insurance, lack of medical expert specialists due to brain drain. Telehealthcare and remote care delivery are a continuing trend today in developing countries public health care systems to overcome care provision issues and increase access to care service.
Recent research in rural and elderly health is based on current technological advancements in sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), personalized and remote healthcare as well as patient empowerment through medical education. The Internet of Things (including M2M) is a rapid growing technology which enables connected things to communicate with each other. IoT technology is increasingly present in medical applications e.g. pervasive/ ubiquitous monitoring systems, cardiac telemetry systems, sensing systems. IoT-enabled health care is multidisciplinary involving methodologies from several domains and applied to the area of medicine and public health care systems.
The IREHI conference is an interdisciplinary multitopic conference with workshops, tutorials and demo sessions. The main objective of IREHI is to bring together researchers in information technology, healthcare, professionals in ICT industries, public and community health agencies committed to improve and transform healthcare in rural areas and for the elderly. IREHI enables the direct exchanges between researchers from developed and developing countries, on healthcare issues in rural areas and for the elderly people. Additionally, it helps to share implementation initiatives conducted in both developed and developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan African countries. The goal is to discuss approaches, national ICT policy frameworks for healthcare system and contributions the UHC objectives. Another goal is to discuss the conditions and modalities for transferring technical resources at affordable cost to developing countries, investigate multisectorial integration strategy (health – education – agriculture – environment) to address specific challenges healthcare in rural areas.
Submission Guidelines
Main Sessions' Papers
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome.
- Full paper (up to 6 pages)
- Short paper (up 4 pages)
- Demo (see our format at the conference website)
Paper submissions must be in English and conform to the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
Papers are to be submitted electronically to http://www.ieee-rural-elderly-health.com/2017/authors-paper-submission/
Paper Submission
Abstract registration deadline July 11, 2017 July 25, 2017 (Deadline extended)
Submission deadline July 25, 2017 Septender 25, 2017 (Deadline extended)
Notification of acceptance October 16, 2017
Camera-ready submission October 26, 2017
Focus Rural and Elderly health informatics
Contact:
- Dr. Thierry Edoh (Technical University of Munch -Germany)/Oscar.edoh@gmail.com (private),edoh@in.tum.de (university)
- Dr. Pravin Pawar (Philips Research, Manyata Tech Park, Nagawara, Bangalore – 560045, India). Pravin.pawar@philips.com, +91 – 9096822903)
- Dr. Damodar Reddy Edla (Asst. Prof. and Head, CSE Dept., National Institute of Technology, Goa, Pharmagudi, Ponda – 403 401, India.
Doctoral Symposium @ IREHI 2017
The Doctoral Symposium collocated with IEEE International Rural and Elderly Health Informatics Conference (IREHI 2017) will take place on December 14th 2017 at University of Lomé/Togo (West-Africa). The proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium will be published by IEEE Xplore. Goal The IREHI 2017 Doctoral Symposium aims at building a worldwide community of doctoral students working on health informatics, especially in rural and elderly health informatics. It will provide the opportunity to present and discuss their research in an international atmosphere and will promote interactions among students and researchers from academia and industry. Selected PhD students from developed and developing countries working in all fields of Health informatics will present their work and receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts from academia and industry. Experienced researchers in health informatics will provide advice to PhD students on various aspects of completing a PhD and carrying out a successful research. Who should participate Students at all stages (at the beginning, at the middle and at the end of their PhD) who are working on a research area or a thesis topic relevant to Health Informatics are encouraged to participate in the Doctoral Symposium. Submission Instructions We are seeking the following types of contributions:
- Short paper (up to 4 pages for technical contents and 1 page for references) related to their ongoing research (authored by student only, include advisor in the acknowledgements); and
- Demos about results obtained in scope of their ongoing research.
Your research paper should contain the following items: 1) a title for your work; 2) an abstract (maximum 200 words); 3) a main description of your research work that covers the technical problem to be solved and related works; 4) the proposed approach with research methodology and work accomplished till date; and 5) Expected contributions of your dissertation research and time plan. All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner. The documents should be submitted through the conference submission system (http://ieee-rural-elderly-health.com/2017/authors-paper-submission/) selecting the Doctoral symposium track.
Paper Submission
- September 25, 2017: Paper submission deadline
- October 16, 2017: Accept/Reject Notification
- October 26, 2017: Camera-ready submission deadline Organization
Contact:
- Dr. Thierry Edoh (Technical University of Munch -Germany)/Oscar.edoh@gmail.com (private),edoh@in.tum.de (university)
- Dr. Pravin Pawar (Philips Research, Manyata Tech Park, Nagawara, Bangalore – 560045, India). Pravin.pawar@philips.com, +91 – 9096822903)
- Dr. Damodar Reddy Edla (Asst. Prof. and Head, CSE Dept., National Institute of Technology, Goa, Pharmagudi, Ponda – 403 401, India.
Tutorial Proposals @ IREHI 2017
We would like to solicit proposals for tutorials that will address the state-of-the art of research and development providing a comprehensive overview of specific topics in IREHI17 conference. Tutorial organizers are responsible of the scientific organization and advertising of the event and the definition of the Tutorial program. Infrastructure (rooms and network, etc.) will be provided, Contact please the local arrangement chairs (irehi.local@ieee-rural-elderly-health.com) Proposals should be submitted by email to the Chairs (irehi.tuto@ieee-rural-elderly-health.com), in a PDF format and maximal two A4 pages (all inclusive). Please include the following information:
- Short course/tutorial title
- Proposers’ names, titles, affiliations and primary contact email
- Short CV for each organizer, including pointers to relevant publications
- Course description that includes topics that will be covered, along with a brief outline and work distribution in case of multiple presenters
- Anticipated target audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) as well as expected number of attendees
TOPICS OF INTEREST (Tutorial) Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- IoT-Cloud integration in medical applications
- Big Data for IoT in medical applications
- Multimodal end-to-end solution
- Predictive analytics and modelling
- Multimedia for the self-management of personal health
- Body area networks
- Wellness and in-body sensors
- IoT-enabled health care systems
- Crowd sensing and management
- Pervasive sensing
- Reliability, safety, security and privacy in remote care systems
- Health related event detection in large data collections
- Next generation networks for health informatics
Proposal Submission
Send your proposal to irehi.local@ieee-rural-elderly-health.com
- Submission deadline September 25th
- Notification of acceptance October 16th, 2017
- Tutorial outline (2 pages) and web material October 26th, 2017
Contact:
- Dr. Thierry Edoh (Technical University of Munch -Germany)/Oscar.edoh@gmail.com (private),edoh@in.tum.de (university)
- Dr. Pravin Pawar (Philips Research, Manyata Tech Park, Nagawara, Bangalore – 560045, India). Pravin.pawar@philips.com, +91 – 9096822903)
- Dr. Damodar Reddy Edla (Asst. Prof. and Head, CSE Dept., National Institute of Technology, Goa, Pharmagudi, Ponda – 403 401, India.
Conference Topics (Topics of Interest)
PRIMARY SCOPE
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Complex health monitoring in rural care systems
- Home care for elderly people
- Cognitive IoT for elderly care
- IoT-Cloud integration in medical applications for rural and elderly Care
- Big Data for IoT in medical applications for rural and elderly Care
- Diseases outbreak surveillance systems in rural area
- Multimodal end-to-end solution approaches to prevent exclusion of elderly people from use of medical applications
- Monitoring platforms for elderly living
- Medical education for empower elderly people and rural out-patients/people
- Financial Accessibility to Rural Healthcare
- Determinants of Therapeutic Path in Rural Areas
- Impact of Energy Supply and Rural Health Care Delivery
FURTHER SCOPES
We also invite authors to submit papers on all topics related rural and elderly health application
- Predictive analytics and modelling
- Multimedia for the self-management of personal health
- lectronic health record (EHR)
- Quality of service and quality of experience
- Body area networks
- Wellness and in-body sensors
- IoT-enabled health care systems
- Crowd sensing and management
- Pervasive sensing
- Reliability, safety, security and privacy in remote care systems
- Health related event detection in large data collections
- Next generation networks for health informatics
- Health Insurances in African Countries
- Off-Label-Use in rural and elderly health
Publication
IREHI17 proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
by IEEE
VENUE
The 1st IEEE International Conference on Rural and Elderly Health Informatics will be held in:
Location: Lomé, Togo (West-Africa)
Conference date: December 14-17 (Opening session December 13, 2017)
Contact
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