CALL-FOR-PAPERS: ISMICT 2007
Call for Papers for the Second International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology in Oulu, Finland on November 11-13, 2007
Top academic researchers in wireless technologies and healthcare services will gather in Finland this November for the 2007 meeting of the International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT). FinNode is proud to extend an invitation to its friends and affiliates to submit a symposium topic, or to contact us for consultation.
Enquiries regarding paper submissions and general issues should be sent to:
Prof. Jari Iinatti
Centre for Wireless Communications
P.O. Box 4500, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland
Mobile: +358 40 532 9403
Fax: +358 8 553 2845
Email: jari.iinatti@ee.oulu.fi or cwc-ismict@ee.oulu.fi
http://www.ismict2007.org
ISMICT 2007 is a continuation of the first ISMICT event organized in Yokohama, Japan in December 2006. As an answer to the fast growing interest in wireless medical ICT research, the symposium will concentrate on the challenge of achieving ubiquitous and pervasive communications as well as on the process development in healthcare and in welfare environments utilizing wireless solutions.
All the submitted papers need to be connected to the medical ICT context. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Antennas & propagation for WBAN applications
- Cost effects in wireless healthcare or welfare
- eHealth
- Electronic medical records
- Hardware architecture and implementation for medical ICT
- Homecare applications
- Hospital data networks
- Medical imaging and patient diagnostic systems
- Prevention and care management ICT networks
- Regulatory issues
- Rehabilitation applications
- Remote patient management
- Smart environments & ubiquitous technologies
- Systems & signal processing
- Telemedicine
- Wireless body area networks
- Wireless healthcare and welfare
- Wireless hospital
- Wireless medical measurements
- Wireless medical sensors
Deadlines:
- Submission of full papers (max five pages): September 2, 2007
- Notification of decisions: October 5, 2007
- Camera ready copies: November 4, 2007
All accepted papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and be included in the Symposium Proceedings. Instructions for paper authors can be found from the Symposium website. University groups, research projects and programmes as well as companies are encouraged to participate in the Exhibition organized during the Symposium. Latest research results and new products and concepts can be introduced in the form of demonstrations or posters.
A special networking day and a tutorial day consisting of half day tutorials related to medical ICT context are also being planned for 11 December. Proposals for those are asked to be submitted to cwc-ismict@ee.oulu.fi by September 2, 2007.