The Ninth International Conference on Global Health Challenges

GLOBAL HEALTH 2020

October 25, 2020 to October 29, 2020 - Nice, France

Deadlines

Submission

Jul 20, 2020

Notification

Aug 18, 2020

Registration

Aug 30, 2020

Camera ready

Sep 11, 2020

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Publication

Published by IARIA Press (operated by Xpert Publishing Services)

Archived in the Open Access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library

Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal

Indexing Procedure

Affiliated Journals

GLOBAL HEALTH 2020 - The Ninth International Conference on Global Health Challenges

October 25, 2020 - October 29, 2020

GLOBAL HEALTH 2020

ISSN: 2308-4553
ISBN: 978-1-61208-817-4

GLOBAL HEALTH 2020 is colocated with the following events as part of NexTech 2020 Congress:

  • UBICOMM 2020, The Fourteenth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies
  • ADVCOMP 2020, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences
  • SEMAPRO 2020, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing
  • AMBIENT 2020, The Tenth International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies
  • EMERGING 2020, The Twelfth International Conference on Emerging Networks and Systems Intelligence
  • DATA ANALYTICS 2020, The Ninth International Conference on Data Analytics
  • GLOBAL HEALTH 2020, The Ninth International Conference on Global Health Challenges
  • CYBER 2020, The Fifth International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems

GLOBAL HEALTH 2020 Steering Committee

 

Matthieu-P. Schapranow
Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH
Germany


 

Lorena Parra Boronat
Instituto Madrileño de Investigación y Desarrollo Rural, Agrario y Alimentario
and
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Spain


 

Special tracks:

OHM: Online Health Misinformation
Chair and Coordinator: Dr. Santosh Vijaykumar, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University, UK santosh.vijaykumar@northumbria.ac.uk

eHealth: Patient-centric eHealth Services
Chair: Dimitar Tcharaktchiev, Department of Medical Informatics, Medical University-Sofia, University Hospital of Endocrinology, Bulgaria dimitardt@gmail.com
Coordinator: Evgeniy Krastev, Faculty of Informatics and Informatics, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridsky, Bulgaria eck@fmi.uni-sofia.bg

 

GLOBAL HEALTH 2020 conference tracks:

Fundamentals

Foundations in global health informatics; Computational health; Software for health; Independent living technologies; ICT and health; Platform interoperability; Semantic interoperability; Diagnosis systems; Applied health informatics; User interfaces and visualization

Behavioral Health

Biosocial health theories; Emotions;  Stress; Depression; Anxiety; Relationship problems; Grief; Addiction; Learning disabilities; Mood disorders; Substance abuse; Opiate addiction; Therapy;  Counseling; Alternative medicines; Mindfulness; Mental illnesses; Behavioral crisis; Chronic conditions; Control and prevention; Coordinated-care models; Integrated behavioral and physical health platforms and systems; Dialectical behavior therapy; Cognitive behavioral therapy;  Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy; Acceptance-oriented interventions; Awareness.

Health and Wellness Informatics

Computation models and human body; Imaging and modelling of human body; Visual and knowledge artifacts; Feature analysis and classification; Machine learning, simulation, and image analysis; Image registration and correlation analysis; Sensing and detecting devices; 3d MRI and optical mapping; Semantic representation of human body data; Trusted information for personal wellness; Cloud outsourcing of medical image repositories;  Web-base decision support systems; Adverse drug event notification systems; Cross-hospital resource management systems; Nurse challenges with IT and electronic medical records; Clinical personal self-management; Care continuity

Medical  Systems and Technologies

Scalable medical systems; Hospital medical systems architecture; Medical-oriented communication protocols; Integration of heterogeneous medical systems; Noncontact human vital-signs sensing systems; Rehabilitation systems; Medical implant technologies; Digital biomedical images; Systems for measuring tissue parameters; Macroscopy and microscopy systems; Video-based healing systems; Mammograms systems; Patient-centric electronic health record systems; ICT platforms for domestic healthcare of patients affected by chronic diseases; Systems for monitoring special diseases (Parkinson, Alzheimer, Diabetes, etc.); Real-time medical data collection

Technology

Bio-medical semantics; Bio-medicine; Disease biomarker prediction; Applications of bio-nano technology; Body networks; Mobile healthcare; Ubiquitous healthcare; Human body communication devices; In-body video-driven navigation exploration; Wireless communication and inferences in in body networks-working environments ; Acoustic metrics and patterns for body exploration systems; Near-field effect and implant body area networks; Assisted wireless body area systems; Medical systems based on smart devices

Trends

Clinical epigenetic; Long term health conditions; Ambient assisted; Genetics; Virtual reality in medicine surgery; Clinical trials; Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics; Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

Practice

Nursing; Patient-centered care; Personalized medicine; Pervasive health; Homecare; Pharmaceutical services

Alternative

Biomedicine; Natural medicine; Preventive medicine; Chronic diseases following; Home surveillance

Challenges

Security aspects and access control on medical data; Data management in pervasive context; Data quality assurance and provenance; Patient flow models in hospitals; Clinical data analysis; Information visualization of medical data; Performance of medical systems; Accuracy of medical systems; Scalability evaluation; Mobile clouds in medical scenarios ; Security of medical systems; Privacy for wired and wireless medical devices

Global

eHealth initiatives; Social medicine; Health global accessibility; Epidemic spreading and control; Health Education; Providing health in remote areas; Decision support within healthcare; Ethical aspects in eHealth; Healthcare plans and patient benefits; Synchronization of federal regulations; Availability of medication; Community health services


Deadlines:

Submission

Jul 20, 2020

Notification

Aug 18, 2020

Registration

Aug 30, 2020

Camera ready

Sep 11, 2020

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

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