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The Second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine
eTELEMED 2010
February 10-16, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles |
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Archive: 2009 |
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All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.
Tracks:
eHealth technology and devices
Telemedicine software and devices;
Diagnostic/monitoring systems and devices; Electronic health cards;
Home monitoring services and equipment;
Telemedicine equipments;
Online instruments supporting independent living;
eHealth telecommunication services;
eHealth wireless data communications; IPTV and/or phone portal clients;
Standardised biomarker analysis for intrinsic linkage to disease outcomes
eHealth data records
eHealth medical records;
Reengineering of care plans in electronic format;
Digital imagery and films;
Internet imaging localization and archiving;
Personal, adaptive, and content-based image retrieval imaging;
Privacy and accuracy communications of patient records;
Secure patient data storage;
Secure communications of patient data;
Authenticated access to patient records; Patient privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs);
Robust approaches to algorithmic modeling of outcomes;
Dynamic graphing of individual’s data trends;
Data aggregation technologies;
Delivery of information governance policies;
Tools/systems for automatic document metadata tagging; Dataset harmonization across multiple sites;
Standard/symbolic representations of multiple physiological trends and clinical/life events
eHealth information processing
Web technology in medicine and eHealth; Web-enabled consumer-driven eHealth; Electronic imagery and visualization frameworks;
Color imaging and multidimensional projections;
Imaging interfaces and navigation;
Medical image processing;
Video techniques for medical images;
Computer vision and resolution;
Rapid evaluation of patient's status;
Anticipative processing of patient's status;
Videoconferencing;
Telepresence
eHealth systems and communications
Hospital information systems;
Internet/intranet services;
Surgical systems;
Sensor-based systems;
Satellite eHealth communications;
Secure data transmissions;
Body-sensor networks; Separation of concerns between domain problems and technological choices;
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches to maximize translation of clinical evidence;
Cross-border eHealth systems;
HealthGrid;
Wireless 'flooding' technology providing cheap e-health platform support to whole towns/cities
eHealth systems and emergency situations
Medical emergencies and communications; Detection emergencies situations; Medical resource allocation, optimization, and simulation; Real-time emergency situations management;
Security and accuracy of emergency communications; Geolocalisation and optimization technology services for emergency fleet vehicles
Telemedicine/eHealth applications
Virtual telemedicine;
Mobile eHealth services;
Home monitoring and homecare applications;
Wireless homecare;
User-generated eHealth care;
Personalized medicine;
Wireless telemedicine ;
Telehomecare technologies for the elderly;
Automatic detection of infectious diseases
Telemedicine/eHealth services
Clinical telemedicine;
Distributed surgery;
Telemedicine and telehealth;
Telepathology;
Telecardiology;
Telerehabilitation;
Elderly and impaired patient services;
Remote operational medicine;
Remote consulting services;
Telemedicare monitoring;
Vital signs monitoring;
Computer generated self care advice;
Telemedicine handbag; Workflow approaches to improve healthcare intervention outcomes; Workflow to improve patient safety, decision support, and objective measurement of service quality;
Support for evidence-driven integrated care pathways (ICP’s)
Social and financial aspects
Safety in telemedicine;
Business models;
Cost-benefit studies;
Legal and ethical aspects;
On-line payment and reimbursement issues;
Ambient Assisted Living;
Shared-care systems for eHealth;
Privacy in the eHealth systems;
Multi-lingual eHealth systems;
Continuity in eHealth care; System simulations for business case development and risk reduction;
Problem-independent (generic application) eHealth architecture;
'Lean' e-health workflows;
‘Relative risk' dashboards - how the patient's condition 'sits' within population risk
Classical medicine and eHealth integration
Wide-area integration of eHealth systems;
Current eHealth realizations and projects;
Innovation in eHealth;
Telemedicine portals;
Standardization and interconnectivity of eHealth systems;
Implementation of cross-border eHealth services;
eHealth integration into routine medical practice;
Affordable approaches to e-Health;
eHealth acceptance with medical professionals and patients;
Developing countries and eHealth;
Distance education for eHealth; xHR standardization;
Impact of ‘global’ integration standards and interoperability projects (e.g. CDA, IHE/XDS, SNOMED-CT, Continua Healthcare Alliance, IEEE11073, Common User Interface (CUI)
Preventive eHealth systems
Systematic risk analysis technologies for disease early detection and prevention;
'Patient path' hubs, mobile devices and/or dedicated home-based network computers;
Information models for evaluation of disease progression risk/disease processes;
Systems supporting quantitative healthcare (predictive outcomes) modeling;
Health risk factor data collation and multiple longitudinal trend analyses;
Support for disease prevention aimed at healthy individuals;
Data aggregation and visualisation technologies for population-based reporting;
'Risk signature’ discovery to indicate optimal preventative or screening actions;
Mapping SNOMED-CT terminologies to disease model archetypes;
Quantitative individualized outcome risk analysis;
Services for longitudinal data analysis/visualisation;
Continuous workflow management across clinic, home and mobile locations
Challenges of large-scale, cost-effective eHealth systems
Integrated technology, social/behavioral and business modelling research for large-scale deployments; Total operational cost-effectiveness modelling;
Lessons from large-scale telehealth/telecare demonstrators in different parts of the world;
Standardised data collation infrastructures (data service layers);
Impact of grid and service-oriented computing;
Roles of global/international interoperability organisations (e.g. IHE and Continua);
Scaleable multi-data trend management;
Robust data collection along the ‘patient path’ for improved decision support;
Delivery of ‘composite’ process functions (e.g. contributed by multiple vendor systems);
Paths to semantically-harmonised eHealth systems;
Semantic interoperability and openEHR archetypes; Applications of harmonised (standardised) datasets across multiple sites;
Keeping technology simple and affordable
Nurse team applications
ePatient and eNurse tools that are simple to adopt and use;
Public eHealth education & information;
Life time health records;
Primary care centers and home monitoring;
Monitoring for signs and progression of complications;
eHealth awareness, education and adoption;
Mapping to individualized care plans;
Continuous ‘closed loop’ outcomes analysis;
Intervention measurement technologies;
Personal target setting
Personalized eHealth
eHealth Systems in Mental Health; Preventive Systems and mobile activity monitoring; eHealth and life;
Fundamentals in eHealth personalization;
Wearable and implantable systems;
Micro and nano eHealth sensors;
Diagnostics using biosensors and textiles;
Interacting with organic semiconductors;
Personalized eHealth market;
Personalized eHealth business models;
Ubiquitous monitoring;
Personalized eHealth and classical health networks;
Trends in personalized eHealth;
ICT solutions for patient self-management
Clinical telemedicine
Stroke (Acute stroke; Thrombolytic therapy; Transient ischemic attacks; Telestroke); Eplilepsy (Acute management of seizures, Follow-up strategies, management of complications); ICU (remote intubation, Management of acute respiratory distress); Cardiaology (EKG interpretation, Tele-Echo, Management of acute coronary syndromes); Pediatrics (Epilepsy, Cardiology-echo interpretation, Pediatrics emergencies)
Rural and wilderness eHealth
Rural health and eHealth programs; Rural medical practice; Healthcare challenges in rural areas; Provincial standards of emergency care; Diagnosing in rural areas; Wilderness emergency medicine; Developing and nurturing online communities for health; Rural self-health care
Environmental and travel telemedicine
Disease control and prevention; Geo-medical surveillance; Travel health-related products, drugs and vaccines; Altitude medicine; Oceanic medicine; Continuous monitoring of travelers' health; Self-health care