Remote Monitoring - New Perspectives and Tools for Chronic Disease Management
Special Session Call for papers
While Europe's population is ageing, the percentage of people suffering from chronic diseases is growing and the percentage of people working is decreasing. Therefore European member states are facing common challenges associated with ageing societies, increasing levels of chronic diseases, and financial strain on social security organizations. The question raised is the following: How will the national health and social care systems react to these challenges, how will they address them both medically and by socioeconomic terms and how will they remain sustainable? eHealth and telemedicine can offer some solutions to these challenges: for example through remote monitoring and usage of wearable and wireless systems, hospitals and doctors can monitor their patients even across national borders. These new tools can be very efficient in patients' remote follow-up and personalized care, especially valuable in early discharge, as well as in home based monitoring.
The session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to engage in an in-depth discussion on various research and deployment issues regarding remote monitoring and the new opportunities for chronic disease management.
Submission Instructions
For submission instructions, please visit: https://mobihealth.name/submission.shtml.
Papers should be submitted to OpenConf by 30 June 2011, by selecting the special session link in the "Topic Area" list.
The preferred length for initial submissions is 4 pages, however the length of final papers should not exceed 8 pages including all figures, tables and references. Extra pages will incur additional charges. The papers must be submitted in PDF format. All papers will be reviewed. All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptances will be provided by 15 July 2011.
Chair
Andriana Prentza, University of Piraeus, Greece
Short Bio
Andriana Prentza received her Diploma degree in Computer Engineering and Information Sciences and her M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, and her Ph.D degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In 1997, she joined the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of National Technical University of Athens (ICCS-NTUA), Athens, Greece, as a senior Research Scientist until 2008. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus. She has published more than 65 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. Ass. Prof. Prentza has been very active in many European and National R&D programs, especially in the field of ICT applications in healthcare, as scientific responsible, technical and project manager. She serves as expert evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission (EC) and national programmes. She is currently Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on the Information Technology in Biomedicine and serves as reviewer for several other scientific journals. Dr. Prentza is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
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