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Digital Health 2015 : 5th International Conference on Digital Health

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Link: http://www.acm-digitalhealth.org
 
When May 18, 2015 - May 20, 2015
Where Florence
Submission Deadline Jan 24, 2015
Notification Due Feb 22, 2015
Final Version Due Mar 1, 2015
Categories    digital health   ehealth
 

Call For Papers

# Conference Aim

Everything is affected by the digital revolution. The opportunities for interdisciplinary digital health research bringing together computer science to dramatically improve health and wellbeing of individuals and populations are extraordinary.

Recent technological advances enabled by creation of real-time big data streams, social media, participatory and context-aware systems and infectious disease modelling are the focus of public health informatics with the aim to achieve an integration with the existing national and international surveillance services. Cutting-edge research into web science, medical ontologies and recommender systems provide further opportunities for development of personalized intelligent systems for public and global health. Serious games, gamification and mhealth interventions empower users in developed world but are accelerating unprecedented access to best evidence, medical advice and healthcare services in developing world.

ACM DL 2015 will in particular focus on public health computer science covering a wide spectrum of subjects including communities of practice and social networks, analytics and engagement with tracking and monitoring wearable devices, big data, public health surveillance, persuasive technologies, epidemic intelligence, participatory surveillance, serious games for public health interventions and automated early identification of health threats and response.

# Conference Tracks

- Big data analytics, crowdsourcing for public health surveillance and emergencies – data science and data analytics, machine learning, NLP, social networks, outbreak/signal detection and early warning systems, pandemics now-casting, epidemic intelligence, participatory surveillance
- Web 2.0, online medical/patient communities of practice and persuasive technology - online medical interventions for for healthy lifestyle and wellbeing, harnessing and mining user-generated content, wikis, Web 2.0, patient support groups and Professional Communities of Practice, persuasive/assistive technology, web science, argumentation techniques for health interventions and support for long term conditions,
- Smart Health and intelligent ubiquitous technologies for health and wellbeing – smart health, agents in healthcare, ubiquitous technologies, knowledge extraction and knowledge discovery, artificial intelligence in health
- Tracking/wearable and mobile technology for personal, public and global health – med-tech, monitoring and tracking devices, apps, quantify self, fitness and wellbeing technology, healthy lifestyle and physical exercise promotion technology, mhealth, public health interventions using mobile technology, global health, mhealth for low and middle income settings, personalisation and profiling, recommender systems
- Digital Prevention and Interventions - digital prevention programmes, knowledge, attitude and behaviour changing digital interventions, personalised care and empowerment of patients and citizens
- Semantic Web, Knowledge Management/Extraction, Web Science and Health – annotation, health care ontologies and taxonomies, knowledge management, knowledge extraction, mining health information, web science, coding/messaging standards and interoperability, semantic navigation and search, reasoning
- E-learning, training and serious games for health - serious games for health digital storytelling for health, authoring tools, training resources online, evaluations of educational impact, qualitative and quantitative impact studies
- Industry and Start Up Track – opportunity to demonstrate new products, share experience and network

# Conference Audience

While held in conjunction with WWW 2015, building on interdisciplinary success of ehealth 2008-11 series, the aim of the conference is to bring together an multidisciplinary spectrum of researchers, industry/start-ups and healthcare practitioners. Submissions are welcome from the range of stakeholders involved in digital health including:

- academia (computer scientists, health informaticians, public health experts, epidemiologists, clinicians, GPs)
- national and international public health agencies (e.g. PHE, InVS, RKI, ECDC, WHO)
- epidemic intelligence systems providers (MEdi+Board, GPHIN, MediSys, HealthMap)
- NGOs and Agencies (MSF, Red Cross/Crescent, UNHCR, UN ITU, etc)
- industry and start-ups, Medtech, IT/SM industry, pharmaceutical industry

# Important Dates

Main Tracks·
Submission Deadline 24th January 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 22nd February 2015
Camera-Ready Deadline: 1st March 2015
Posters and Demos
Submission Deadline: 1st March 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 20th March 2010

5th Digital Health Conference: 18th – 20th May 2015

# Submissions

The Proceedings of the ACM Digital Health conference 2015 papers will be peer reviewed by three members of the TPC for relevance, originality, quality and included in the ACM Digital Health 2015 Proceedings, WWW 2015.

Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty and relevance. All submitted papers must:

- be written in English;
- contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
- be formatted according to the ACM SIGMOD Proceedings template(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
- be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size.

There are three types of submissions:

- Full research papers: no more than 8 pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices;
- Short paper or extended medical abstracts (aimed at health professionals): 2 pages
- Posters and Demos: Title + Short abstract ((=200 words)

Both full papers and short papers/extended abstracts will be published in the ACM DH 2015 Proceedings. Posters and Demos will feature on the event website and in the Abstracts book distributed at the conference. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

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