International Rural and Elderly Health Informatics Conference
University of Lomé
Lomé, Togo, December 14-17, 2017
Conference website http://ieee-rural-elderly-health.com
Abstract registration deadline July 11, 2017
Submission deadline July 25, 2017
Notification of acceptance September 26, 2017
Camera-ready submission October 16, 2017
Focus Rural and Elderly health informatics
Topics:health informatics internet of things bioinformatics telemedecine
Worldwide, public health care is facing diverse kind of care delivery issues.
High income countries are facing exploding medical costs primarily due to the growing percentage of elderly people. Elderly are the fastest growing demographic group in developed countries. The UN forecasts that by 2050, elderly (60 years et and older) would constitute more than 20% of the world population. In developed countries, nursing home provides adequate care services to elderly; nevertheless, elderly people prefer staying at home in their familiar and usual social environment and take care of their health by themselves as long as they are able to. Home care applications are therefore increasingly in demand.
However, rural areas, particularly in developing countries, are suffering from poor access to health care services. The reasons are poor health care infrastructures, inappropriate public health structure, lack of health insurance, lack of medical expert specialists due to brain drain. Telehealthcare and remote care delivery are a continuing trend today in developing countries public health care systems to overcome care provision issues and increase access to care service.
Recent research in rural and elderly health is based on current technological advancements in sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), personalized and remote healthcare as well as patient empowerment through medical education. The Internet of Things (including M2M) is a rapid growing technology which enables connected things to communicate with each other. IoT technology is increasingly present in medical applications e.g. pervasive/ ubiquitous monitoring systems, cardiac telemetry systems, sensing systems. IoT-enabled health care is multidisciplinary involving methodologies from several domains and applied to the area of medicine and public health care systems.
The IREHI conference is an interdisciplinary multitopic conference with workshops, tutorials and demo sessions. The main objective of IREHI is to bring together researchers in information technology, healthcare, professionals in ICT industries, public and community health agencies committed to improve and transform healthcare in rural areas and for the elderly. IREHI enables the direct exchanges between researchers from developed and developing countries, on healthcare issues in rural areas and for the elderly people. Additionally, it helps to share implementation initiatives conducted in both developed and developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan African countries. The goal is to discuss approaches, national ICT policy frameworks for healthcare system and contributions the UHC objectives. Another goal is to discuss the conditions and modalities for transferring technical resources at affordable cost to developing countries, investigate multisectorial integration strategy (health – education – agriculture – environment) to address specific challenges healthcare in rural areas.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome.
Full paper (up to 6 pages)
Short paper (up 4 pages)
Demo (see our format at the conference website)
Paper submissions must be in English and conform to the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
Papers are to be submitted electronically to http://ieee-rural-elderly-health.com/2017/authors-paper-submission/
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Complex health monitoring in rural care systems
Home care for elderly people
Cognitive IoT for elderly care
IoT-Cloud integration in medical applications for rural and elderly Care
Big Data for IoT in medical applications for rural and elderly Care
Diseases outbreak surveillance systems in rural area
Multimodal end-to-end solution approaches to prevent exclusion of elderly people from use of medical applications
Monitoring platforms for elderly living
Medical education for empower elderly people and rural out-patients/people
Financial Accessibility to Rural Healthcare
Determinants of Therapeutic Path in Rural Areas
Impact of Energy Supply and Rural Health Care Delivery
FURTHER SCOPES
We also invite authors to submit papers on all topics related rural and elderly health application
Predictive analytics and modelling
Multimedia for the self-management of personal health
lectronic health record (EHR)
Quality of service and quality of experience
Body area networks
Wellness and in-body sensors
IoT-enabled health care systems
Crowd sensing and management
Pervasive sensing
Reliability, safety, security and privacy in remote care systems
Health related event detection in large data collections
Next generation networks for health informatics
Health Insurances in African Countries
Off-Label-Use in rural and elderly health
Publication
IREHI17 proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
by IEEE
Venue
The 1st IEEE International Conference on Rural and Elderly Health Informatics will be held in:
Location: Lomé, Togo (West-Africa)
Conference date: December 14-17 (Opening session December 13, 2017)
Important Dates for PC Member Calendars
Paper submission: July 25, 2017
PC member reviews due: June 25 - July 30, 2017
Notification of acceptance: September 26th, 2017
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to irehi.prog@ieee-rural-elderly-health.com
