First International Workshop on Pervasive Digital Healthcare (PerCare) In conjunction with IEEE Percom 2008

Percare ---- Call for Paper

Pervasive digital healthcare is an emerging multidisciplinary research direction, focusing on the development and application of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. Pervasive digital healthcare explores the ways in which ubiquitous computing can support the daily health and wellness needs of people in their homes and everyday lives. It seeks to make healthcare available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing location, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare.

The wide scale deployment of wireless networks will improve communication among patients, physicians, and other healthcare workers as well as enable the delivery of accurate medical information anytime anywhere, thereby reducing errors and improving access. Meanwhile, advances in intelligent mobile devices and wearable sensors have made possible a wide range of efficient and powerful medical applications, including mobile telemedicine, patient monitoring, location-based medical services, emergency response and management, pervasive access to medical data, personalized monitoring, and lifestyle incentive management.

Besides pervasive/ubiquitous computing, pervasive digital healthcare also covers wide range of other research disciplines, like distributed systems, software architecture, middleware, human-computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work, etc. Pervasive digital healthcare has the potential to reduce long-term costs and improve quality of life, but it also faces many technical challenges.

This PerCare workshop aims to gather together experts in pervasive digital healthcare for sharing information on recent developments – both technical and system-level – contributing towards emerging pervasive digital healthcare discipline.

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

• Wearable devices and sensor networks for pervasive digital healthcare
• Networking support (location tracking, routing, etc.) for pervasive digital healthcare
• Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing
• Design and use of bio-sensors and mobile devices for patient monitoring
• Ubiquitous health care and monitoring at home
• Pervasive healthcare applications
• Representation of medical information (multimedia, processing and storage requirements) in pervasive healthcare environment

• Computer support for cooperative work (CSCW) for cooperative healthcare
• Software architectures for pervasive digital healthcare
• Context-Aware interaction for digital healthcare services

• Security and privacy in pervasive healthcare

• Standard and regulatory issues in pervasive healthcare

Important Dates:

Paper submissions deadline: September 28, 2007 (extended to Oct. 13, 2007)

Notification of acceptance: November 23, 2007

Camera-ready papers deadline: December 21, 2007

Percare 2008