Highlights of IEEE HEALTHCOM 2013
By Joel Rodrigues
Prof. Joel Rodrigues provided this overview of HEALTHCOM 2013 in his opening remarks to the Conference. (NOTE: The Proceedings of the Conference will be published by IEEE. See IEEExplore for access to articles from this and previous Healthcom Conferences.)
On behalf of the entire IEEE HEALTHCOM 2013 team, I am pleased to welcome all of you to the 15th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services (IEEE HEALTHCOM 2013) on such a sunny day on this beautiful campus from the university of Lisbon, the beautiful capital of Portugal, at October 09-12, 2013.
IEEE HEALTHCOM is the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on eHealth. As a Steering Committee Chair of this conference and Vice-Chair of the eHealth TC, it is my great honor to organize our high-level conference in my country, Portugal. IEEE HEALTHCOM 2013 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and technically sponsored by recognized institutions that I am pleased to mention as follows:
- University of Beira Interior, Portugal
- Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Politicas, University of Lisbon
- Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
- Next Generation Networks and Applications Research Group (IT-UBI)
- CTTC – Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain
- CI2 – Centro de Investigação e Criatividade em Informática, Portugal
- and the Projects
- AAL4ALL – Ambient Assisted Living for All, an anchor project from the Health Cluster Portugal
- and WSN4QoL – Secure Location-Aware Cooperative Network-Coded WSNs for Better Quality of Life – an FP7 Project.
The conference offers an excellent program addressing the new frontiers of eHealth technologies and brings together experts from all over the world who come to Lisbon to share their expertise and new ideas. Thanks to our authors from the most diverse research areas including nurses, physicians, technologists, social scientists, lawyers, and other professionals. We received contributions from 51 countries and a total of 286 papers submitted for the main conference. The acceptation ratio is below 45%.
This year’s conference is a three and an half day program, featuring
- 20 Technical sessions and 2 poster Sessions
- 3 workshops
- International Workshop on New Trends on Telemedicine (NTT 2013)
- First International Workshop on Service Science for e-Health (SSH 2013)
- 1st International Workshop on Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA 2013)
- 4 tutorials
- Methodology for Evaluating Experience of Mobile (Healthcare) Applications Used in Different Contexts of Daily Life
- Health Care Collaborative Networked Organization
- Introduction to openEHR – Main Concepts, Tools and Archetype/Template Creation
- Designing an Information Accountability Framework for eHealth
- 4 Keynote Speeches
- The Challenge of Big Data in Health: Meaningful Use of Information for Patient Centered Care
- Disaster Communications after the Accidents of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (Japan)
- eHEALTH in Europe
- Transparent Robot-Assisted Gait Training in Neurorehabilitation
- 2 Panels
- Telemedicine Today!
- Cloud or not to Cloud for eHealth
- Several live Demos in a Demo Session
- Robotic surgeries
- Demos from the AAL4ALL project
- Tele-consulting
- A large industry Exhibition with key players on eHealth technologies
- A plenary session (next Saturday) addressing key topics related to eHealth, closing this conference with the presence of the Portuguese Minister of Health, Dr. Paulo Macedo.
The conference also promotes a social program including the Welcome Reception that took place by yesterday, lunches, Conference banquet, and offer participants the opportunity to visit the beautiful city of Lisbon and its surroundings.
It is my privilege to convey the community’s gratitude to the exhibitors and the conference patrons, namely,
- Our Gold Patron – Portugal Telecom
- Silver Patrons – Carestream and Siemens
- Bronze Patrons:
- ALTRAN
- ONI Telecom
- ORAMIX – Expert Services
- PROSIDE
- RIZI – Expert Software Solutions
- Session Patrons:
- Everis
- Linde Group
- Maxdata
- Bags Patron – HP
Contributor
Joel José P. C. Rodrigues (S’01, M’06, SM’06) is a professor in the Department of Informatics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, and researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal. He received a PhD degree in informatics engineering from the University of Beira Interior. His main research interests include sensor networks, e-health, e-learning, vehicular delay-tolerant networks, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. Read more