The proposed workshop will be multi-disciplinary, focusing on innovations in information processing and system aspects of health care and performance. The topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to Information processing aspects of human health and performance:

1. Information processing aspects of human health and performance
Data processing, storage and management
Detection, classification, and tracking
Distributed algorithms and reasoning
Programming models and languages

2. Body sensor networks: Systems and Technology
Novel communication techniques and protocols
In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks
Location, time, and other network services
Network health monitoring and management
Performance modeling

3. System design issues of Medical Digital Devices
Operating systems and runtime environments
Power
Reliability and fault-tolerance

4. Assistive Technologies for aged and disabled
Longitudinal studies showing impact on health care and performance

5. Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications

6. HCI/Wearable Computing for Medical Applications

Social impacts
Usability
Brain Computer Interactions
Wearable system design issues
Entertainment
7. Medical Applications
Pervasive health care and patient monitoring within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings
Pervasive health care and patient monitoring in residential and other non healthcare delivery setting
Prosthetics and other novel medical applications

"We will have a special issue based on this workshop in a leading journal."