|  | The Fifth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine eTELEMED 2013 February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France | 
     
          
       
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               | Submission (full paper) | Sept 29Oct 23, 2012 |  
               | Notification | Nov 24Nov 29, 2012 |  
               | Registration | Dec 7Dec 13, 2012 |  
               | Camera ready | Dec 22Dec 25, 2012 |  ISSN: 2308-4359ISBN: 978-1-61208-252-3
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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