Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for medical and healthcare applications, Body Area Network (MBAN) are the focus of the Seventh International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT2013). ISMICT2013 aims to establish a forum to present new research results, exchange ideas, discuss practices, and share experiences among participants in the field of information and communication engineering, biomedical engineering, medicine, electrical and computer engineering, wired and wireless networks, and other disciplines. ISMICT2013 will be held in Surugadai Campus, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 6-8 March 2013. The theme of ISMICT2013 is Towards Better Personalized Medicine and Healthcare. Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

* Scope
- BAN technology (PHY, MAC, protocols)
- Wearable and implantable devices
- eHealth systems and electronic medical records
- Medical BAN applications and services
- Hardware architecture and implementation
- Hospital data networks and wireless hospital
- Privacy and Security issues
- Pervasive health care and patient monitoring
- Medical imaging and patient diagnostic systems
- Human body communication
- International standards and regulatory matters
- Antennas and propagation for wireless BAN
- Physiological parameters, measurements
- Smart textiles for wearable BAN
- Preventive care & remote patient management
- Radio coexistence and robustness
- Cognitive radio for wireless BAN
- Systems, sensing and signal processing
- Telemedicine, telemonitoring, telesurgery
- Wellness and sports training
- Ambient assisted living
- Rehabilitation and activity monitoring
- Wireless healthcare, homecare and welfare

* Sponsors:
Co-sponsored by Meiji Univ. and CWC Nippon.
Technically co-sponsored by IEICE TC-MICT, IEEE EMB Japan Chapter and JSMBE.

* Important Dates:
- Paper Submission Due: Oct. 31, 2012
- Acceptance Notification: Dec. 15, 2012
- Camera-ready Paper Due: Jan. 7, 2013

* Conference Organization
Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs:
- Tetsushi Ikegami (Meiji University, Japan)
- Ryu Miura (NICT, Japan)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
- Shinsuke Hara (Osaka City University, Japan)
- Hiroshi Kondo (TottoriUniversity)
- Masaru Sugimachi (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center)
- Jianqing Wang (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

Special Session Co-Chairs:
- Eisuke Hanada (Shimane University Hospital, Japan)
- Jun-ichi Takada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Secretary:
- Minseok Kim (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Toshiyuki Maeyama (Takushoku University, Japan)

Members:
- Daisuke Anzai (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Takahiro Aoyagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Tadasuke Minagawa (Meiji University, Japan)
- Kohei Ohno (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
- Yumie Ono (Meiji University, Japan)
- Chika Sugimoto (Yokohama National University, Japan)
- Kenichi Takizawa (NICT, Japan)

International Steering Committee
Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
- Jari Iinatti (University of Oulu, Finland)
- Ryuji Kohno (Yokohama National University, Japan)

International Advisory Board:
- Art Astrin (Astrin Radio, USA)
- John Farserotu (CSEM, Switzerland)
- ChingYao Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
- Ryuji Kohno (Yokohama National University, Japan)
- Ari Pouttu (Centre for Wireless Communications University of Oulu,
Finland)
- Bernard Segal (McGill University, Canada)