Greetings! We invite you to participate in the 13th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom2011).

Healthcom 2011 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. The conference has been successfully held in Sydney, Australia (1999 and 2000), L’Aquila, Italy (2001), Nancy, France (2002), Santa Monica, USA (2003), Odawara, Japan (2004), Busan, Korea (2005), New Delhi, India (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Singapore (2008), Sydney, Australia (2009), and Lyon, France (2010). In 2011, the conference will be held in Columbia, Missouri, USA – the heartland of America and home of the University of Missouri.

The main theme of HealthCom 2011 is “technology-enabled personalized medicine” to provide preventive and therapeutic care that is optimized for individual patient subpopulations. The advancement of m-Health (mobile device technologies, networking, telecommunications), e-Health (electronic health records, telemedicine, consumer health informatics), and genomics (high-throughput sequencing of human genome), will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. Healthcom 2011 is an opportunity to bring together interested parties from around the world working in the health care field to exchange ideas, to discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and to develop collaborations. Participants include clinicians, hospital administrators, government agencies, informaticians, engineers, IT professionals, researchers, educators, healthcare solutions vendors, consultants, and students.

Conference Topics include but are not limited to:

e-Health and m-Health for Personalized Medicine
e-Health for Public Health (including disease prevention, emergency preparedness, epidemiologic interventions)

e-Health for Ageing (to support quality of life for older adults, aging in place and independence)
e-Health for Patient Safety
e-Health and m-Health for Developing Countries
Global Health Implications of m-Health systems
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Gaming and Social Media assisted e-Health
Practical Applications of e-Health, m-Health, and Genomics

Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare

New IT-enhanced Models for Healthcare delivery
Education and Training
Ethical considerations of information technology use in healthcare



The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and EI indexed. As in the previous years, best papers from Healthcom2011 will be invited to submit an extended version for potential publications in major international refereed journals.
For more information about submission deadlines and requirements, click here.

To be published in the IEEE Healthcom 2011 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented at the conference. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers.

IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.