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Call for Papers
The use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies)
in Healthcare Services is the main mechanism to
improve efficiency and effectiveness. Nowadays ICTs are being
developed to achieve the following objectives:
- To integrate heterogeneous systems;
- To develop frameworks to make all data meaningful,
accessible and available everywhere and permanently;
- To develop AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data
Collectors) systems;
- To develop intelligent systems to support clinical and
management decisions;
The use of these technologies also improves the quality of
patient care and reduces clinical risk. At the same time,
the patient will be part of the healthcare process, having
more information about diseases and access to his/her
electronic health record.
The physicians will have more information to deliver a better
service and dynamic guidelines to improve quality and
reduce risks.
The pharmaceutical industries can get more and more accurate
information about drug΄s effects and supply chain
delivery systems.
Public health authorities can get more accurate information
and develop dashboards to make better decisions.
Hospital Management benefits from a more updated meaningful
data. This data is used by management systems to
delivery KPI (Key Performance Indicators).
This conference aims to draw together information systems,
practitioners and management experts from all
quadrants involved in developing computer technology to
improve healthcare quality.
Main areas and topics:
A. Research Issues
Computers and Primary Care
Clinical Data Visualisation Standards
e-Health Architectures
Healthcare Data Architecture and Terminology Standards
Federated Electronic Health Records
Personalized Medicine
Health Informatics and Education
Human Computer Interaction
Infrastructure and Architecture
Internet and Medicine
Interoperability issues
IT and Patient Care
Nursing Informatics
RFID and localization techniques
Usability and Ubiquity in e-Health
e-Health Virtual Communities
Business Process Management Systems
Second Life for Healthcare Support and Education
B. Management Issues
Case Studies
Management Change
Confidentiality and Privacy
e-Health Collaborative Strategies and Techniques
e-Training
Healthcare Management Dashboards
Legal issues
Balanced scorecards models to improve Hospital Performance
and Productivity
Business Intelligence in Healthcare
e-Health to improve Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety.
Healthcare Information Systems Regulatory issues
Security in e-Health
Service Models
Social implications
Stakeholders involvement
C. Applications
Clinical Information Systems
Data Mining and Clinical Studies
Medical Guidelines
e-Health Decision Support Systems
e-Logistics and e-Pharmacy
Intelligent Medical Systems
Mobile Applications
Patient Electronic Health Records
Healthcare Portals to inform and connect Patients with
Physicians
Patients and Public Health
Social Networks in Healthcare contexts
e-Health Marketing
e-Procurement and e-Commerce
Telemedicine
Automatic Identification and Data Collector Systems
Unified data processing and communication Systems
Web Based Applications
e-Health 2.0
The Conference will be composed of several types of
contributions:
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Full Papers These include mainly accomplished
research results and have 8 pages at the maximum (5,000
words).
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Short Papers These are mostly composed of work in
progress reports or fresh developments and have 4 pages
at maximum (2,500 words).
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Reflection Papers These might review recent
research literature pertaining to a particular problem or
approach, indicate what the findings suggest, and/or provide
a suggestion - with rationale and justification -
for a different approach or perspective on that problem.
Reflection papers might also analyze general trends or
discuss important issues in topics related to the
conference. These have 4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).
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Posters / Demonstrations These contain
implementation information or work-in-progress and have two
pages
at maximum (1,250 words) besides the poster itself (or
demonstration) that will be exposed at the conference.
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Tutorials Tutorials can be proposed by scholars or
company representatives. A proposal of maximum 250
words is expected.
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Invited Talks These will be made of contributions
from well-known scholars and company representatives.
An abstract will be included in the conference proceedings.
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Panels Discussions on selected topics will be held.
A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.
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Doctoral Consortium - A Doctoral Consortium will
discuss in group, individual projects and on going work of
PhD students. Prospective students should send a report of
their PhD projects and work so far with a maximum
of 4 pages (2,500 words).
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Corporate Showcases & Exhibitions The former
enables companies to present recent developments
and applications, inform a large and qualified audience of
your future directions and showcase companys
noteworthy products and services. There will be a time slot
for companies to make their presentation in a room.
The latter enables companies the opportunity to display its
latest offerings of hardware, software, tools, services
and books, through an exhibit booth. For further details
please contact the publicity chair -
secretariat@mccsis.org .
This is a blind peer-reviewed conference.
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (2nd call): 29 April 2011
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): 30 May 2011
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st
call) :
Until 25 March 2011
- Late Registration (1st call): After 25 March 2011
- Conference: Rome, Italy, 20 to 22 July 2011
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