The 10th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH)

Date: November 2-5, 2020
Location: Madeira, Portugal
Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-20/
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Important Dates
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- Workshop Proposals: May 30, 2020
- Paper Submission Due: June 15, 2020
- Author Notification: August 2, 2020
- Final Manuscript Due: August 30, 2020

Publication
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All ICTH 2020 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:

- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.901), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)
- International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, by IGI Global: (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-communications/1158)

ICTH 2020 will be held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-20/). Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-20/call-for-papers.html

ICTH 2020 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care
- Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems
- Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems
- Clinical Data and Knowledge Management
- Cloud Computing for Healthcare
- Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare
- Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care
- Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare
- Data Visualization
- Decision Support Systems in Healthcare
- Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems
- Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare
- Digital Hospitals
- Drug Information Systems
- E-health & m-health
- Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR)
- Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
- Healthgrids
- Health Portals
- Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments
- Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications
- Quantified Self for Pervasive Healthcare
- Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems
- Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare
- RFID Solutions for Healthcare
- Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments
- Telemedicine and Health Telematics
- Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare
- Usability & Socio Technical studies
- User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications
- Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare
- Virtual Environments for Healthcare

Committees
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General Chair
Heiko Gewald, The Neu-Ulm University of Applied, Germany
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil

Program Chairs
Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal

Local Arrangements Chairs
Rui Neves Madeira, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal
Nelson Rocha, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Workshops Chair
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA

International Journals Chair
Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Publicity Chairs
Mohammed Fattah, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco
Sony Guntuka, Acadia University, Canada

Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-20/program-committees.html

Steering Committee Chair
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

Advisory Committee
Abdullah Ali Al-Maniri, Oman Medical Specialty Board, Oman
Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada
Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA
Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Francesco Princiroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada