[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS 15th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (HEALTHCOM 2013) Lisbon, Portugal – October 09-12, 2013 http://www.ieee-healthcom.org IEEE Healthcom 2013 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. It aims at bringing together interested parties from around the world working in the health care field to exchange ideas, to discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and to develop collaborations. eHealth is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and the related fields, including health-care related services, surveillance, literature, education, knowledge, and research, both at the local site and at a distance. It will make personalised medicine possible and affordable in the near future. The adoption of eHealth technologies in medical fields creates huge opportunities yet lots of challenges still need to be resolved to build reliable, secure, and efficient networks or platforms with great flexibility. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the eHealth area. The topics include but are not limited to - Biomedical and biosensors engineering - Body sensor networks and wearable sensor systems - Clinical biofeedback, decision support systems, and tools - eHealth information and network Infrastructure - eHealth for public health (including disease prevention, emergency preparedness, epidemiologic interventions) - eHealth for aging (to support quality of life for older adults, aging in place and independence) - Emerging eHealth applications - Health grid and health cloud - Health monitoring, traffic characterisation, & management - ICT-enabled personal health system - Image and video processing on eHealth - Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare - New IT-enhanced Models for Healthcare delivery - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth - Practical Applications of e-Health - Security and privacy on eHealth - Storage and Display Devices for eHealth - Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine Important dates - Paper Submission: April 30, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013 - Submission of camera-ready papers: August 31, 2013 PAPER SUBMISSION Perspective authors are invited to submit their papers using EDAS System at http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=13601&track=26533. A full paper should not have more than five (5) IEEE style pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing procedure (with at least 3 independent anonymous reviews). Accepted papers will be published on IEEExplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). The best accepted paper will receive the Best Paper Award. Extended version of best papers will be considered for publication on the International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications (http://www.igi-global.com/IJEHMC) and in the Elsevier IRBM (http://www.elsevier.com/journals/irbm/1959-0318). Note: To be published in the IEEE Healthcom 2013 Conference Proceedings and IEEEXplore, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and present the paper at the conference. General Chair: Joel Rodrigues, Institute for Telecommunications/ University of Beira Interior, Portugal TPC Chairs: Ricardo Correia, Fac. Medicine, Univ. Porto, Portugal Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain Operations Chairs: Maria Helena Monteiro, ISCSP, Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal Rita Amorim, ISCSP, Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal IEEE HEALTHCOM Steering Committee: Joel Rodrigues (Chair), IT/Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal Tsong-Ho Wu, Industrial Tech. Research Inst., Taiwan Pradeep Ray, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia Norbert Noury, University of Lyon, France Chi-Ren Shyu, Univ. Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Portuguese Government Liaison: Henrique Martins, Clinical Information Coordinator, Portugal Industry and Exhibition Chair: Rui Gomes, Fernando Fonseca Hospital, Portugal Industry Forum Chair: Miguel Sales Dias, Microsoft Workshop Chairs: JosŽ Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Cear‡, Brazil Rui Rijo, Polytechnic Inst. of Leiria, Portugal Tutorial Chairs: Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal JosŽ Carlos Nascimento, University of Minho, Portugal Panel Chair: Eric Addeo, DeVry University, USA Publicity chairs: Jaime Lloret, Univ. PolitŽcnica de Valencia, Spain Lei Shu, Guangdong Univ. Petroc. Tech., China Aravind Kailas, Univ. North Carolina Charlotte, USA Scott Fowler, Linköping University, Sweden Communication Chair: Francisco Roxo, Catholic Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal Web Chair: Vasco Soares, Inst. for Telecom./ IPCB, Portugal