ISSN: 2308-4553
ISBN: 978-1-61208-682-8

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• Free Access: in ThinkMind Digital Library

GLOBAL HEALTH 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of NexTech 2018 Congress:

• UBICOMM 2018, The Twelfth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies
• ADVCOMP 2018, The Twelfth International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences
• SEMAPRO 2018, The Twelfth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing
• AMBIENT 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies
• EMERGING 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Emerging Networks and Systems Intelligence
• DATA ANALYTICS 2018, The Seventh International Conference on Data Analytics
• GLOBAL HEALTH 2018, The Seventh International Conference on Global Health Challenges
• CYBER 2018, The Third International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems

GLOBAL HEALTH 2018 conference tracks:

Fundamentals

Foundations in global health informatics; Computational health; Software for health; Independent living technologies; ICT and health; Platform interoperability; Semantic interoperability; Diagnosis systems; Applied health informatics; User interfaces and visualization

Health and Wellness Informatics

Computation models and human body; Imaging and modelling of human body; Visual and knowledge artifacts; Feature analysis and classification; Machine learning, simulation, and image analysis; Image registration and correlation analysis; Sensing and detecting devices; 3d MRI and optical mapping; Semantic representation of human body data; Trusted information for personal wellness; Cloud outsourcing of medical image repositories;  Web-base decision support systems; Adverse drug event notification systems; Cross-hospital resource management systems; Nurse challenges with IT and electronic medical records; Clinical personal self-management; Care continuity

Medical  Systems and Technologies

Scalable medical systems; Hospital medical systems architecture; Medical-oriented communication protocols; Integration of heterogeneous medical systems; Noncontact human vital-signs sensing systems; Rehabilitation systems; Medical implant technologies; Digital biomedical images; Systems for measuring tissue parameters; Macroscopy and microscopy systems; Video-based healing systems; Mammograms systems; Patient-centric electronic health record systems; ICT platforms for domestic healthcare of patients affected by chronic diseases; Systems for monitoring special diseases (Parkinson, Alzheimer, Diabetes, etc.); Real-time medical data collection

Technology

Bio-medical semantics; Bio-medicine; Disease biomarker prediction; Applications of bio-nano technology; Body networks; Mobile healthcare; Ubiquitous healthcare; Human body communication devices; In-body video-driven navigation exploration; Wireless communication and inferences in in body networks-working environments ; Acoustic metrics and patterns for body exploration systems; Near-field effect and implant body area networks; Assisted wireless body area systems; Medical systems based on smart devices

Trends

Clinical epigenetic; Long term health conditions; Ambient assisted; Genetics; Virtual reality in medicine surgery; Clinical trials; Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics; Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

Practice

Nursing; Patient-centered care; Personalized medicine; Pervasive health; Homecare; Pharmaceutical services

Alternative

Biomedicine; Natural medicine; Preventive medicine; Chronic diseases following; Home surveillance

Challenges

Security aspects and access control on medical data; Data management in pervasive context; Data quality assurance and provenance; Patient flow models in hospitals; Clinical data analysis; Information visualization of medical data; Performance of medical systems; Accuracy of medical systems; Scalability evaluation; Mobile clouds in medical scenarios ; Security of medical systems; Privacy for wired and wireless medical devices

Global

eHealth initiatives; Social medicine; Health global accessibility; Epidemic spreading and control; Health Education; Providing health in remote areas; Decision support within healthcare; Ethical aspects in eHealth; Healthcare plans and patient benefits; Synchronization of federal regulations; Availability of medication; Community health services

Deadlines:

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).