Medical Body Area Networks (MBAN) technology, applications and services are the focus of the Sixth International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT) to be held in La Jolla USA 26-29 March 2012.

The theme of ISMICT 2012 is Medical Body Area Networks Technology and Services for Personalized Medicine. Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

· Antennas and propagation for wireless BAN

· BAN technology (radio, protocols, sensors)

· Cognitive radio for wireless BAN

· Cost effectiveness and business cases

· eHealth systems and electronic medical records

· Medical BAN applications and services

· Future BAN 2020 and beyond

· Hardware architecture and implementation

· Hospital data networks and wireless hospital

· Human and work flow factors

· Human body communication

· International standards and regulatory matters

· Medical imaging and patient diagnostic systems

· Physiological parameters, measurements

· Preventive care & remote patient management

· Personal Networks for eHealth

· Radio coexistence and robustness

· Security and privacy issues

· Smart textiles for wearable BAN

· Systems, sensing and signal processing

· Telemedicine, telemonitoring, telesurgery

· Wellness and sports training

· Rehabilitation and activity monitoring

· Wireless BAN (wearable and implantable)

· Wireless healthcare, homecare and welfare