Workshop proceedings will be published on a CD along with main conference papers and they will appear on IEEE Xplore after the conference

High quality papers from this conference will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Mobile Multimedia (JMM)

 

 

Sponsors:     

Co-sponsored by	IEEE Communications Society / CreateNet / ICST

In Technical Cooperation with: ACM SIGMOBILE (pending)

In Technical Cooperation with: IEEE Computer Society (pending)

General Co-Chairs

Aura Ganz, Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst

Csaba A. Szabo, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics

Keynote Speaker

Hamish Fraser, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

"Internet based medical information systems to support healthcare in developing countries"

Steering Committee Chair:

Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET Research Consortium

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Robert Istepanian,  Kingston University

Joseph C. Kvedar, Harvard Medical School

Publicity Co-Chairs

Ferenc Balazs, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Bee Tang, Kingston University, UK

Qi Xue,  Qualcomm

 

Call for Papers:                                                                             

Since the first documented telemedicine application between Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Logan Airport in 1968, there has been a continuous development of telemedicine applications, mainly motivated by the advances in enabling technologies including telecommunication, wireless, multimedia,  data processing and the like. Applications have been developed and successfully implemented in many areas of medicine, in particular in radiology, cardiology, pathology, chronic disease care/home care  and medical training. There is no doubt that telemedicine has a great impact on the improvement of quality and effectiveness of health care services, increases the accessibility of such services, in particular for rural and sparsely populated areas, and contributes to the improvement of quality of life of citizens.  

It is intended to be an event of inter-disciplinary character, on one hand covering technology, business and legal/ethical issues, and on the other hand involving the different communities in networking, multimedia, medical informatics and medical diagnostics. 

The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, health care providers, professionals from academia and industry, to exchange ideas about the problems they are facing and to discuss recent and innovative solutions in the telemedicine area. 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

-    Advances in diagnostic modalities and their requirements toward the communication network

-    Collaborative technologies

-    Virtual reality in telemedicine

-    Network based home health care solutions

-    Security and privacy issues in telemedicine

-    Telemedicine in mobile environment

-    Health care solutions based on broadband wireless access

-    IT support for telemedicine; integration with PACS

-    Technology elements (sensors, networking, user interfaces, storage,?

-    Telemedicine in different medical areas (tele-radiology, tele-cardiology etc.)

-    Telemedicine training

-    Telemedicine solutions for sparsely populated/geographically challenged areas

-    Business models and cost-effectiveness assessment of telemedicine services

-    Legal and ethical issues

-    Case studies

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline	July 15, 2005
Notification of Acceptance	August 25, 2005
Camera-Ready Paper Due	September 4, 2005

Submission Instructions
All papers are limited to 6 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column format.  All submissions must be done electronically through COCUS.