The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts,
state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments,
applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit
complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference
or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of
Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business
presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

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Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:
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Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

eTELEMED 2011 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

- 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