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International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA)

Special Issue Announcement

Electronic – Health  


Guest Editors

 

Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA

E-mail: huichen@ieee.org

Arnauld Nicogossian, George Mason University, USA

E-mail: anicogoss@cox.net

Silas Olsson, Healthaccess, Sweden

E-mail: silas.olsson@healthaccess.eu

Azhar Rafiq, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

E-mail: fiq@vcu.edu

Max E. Stachura, Medical College of Georgia, USA

E-mail: MAXS@mail.mcg.edu

Mamoru Watanabe, University of Calgary, Canada

E-mail: watanabe@ucalgary.ca

Pamela Whitten, Michigan State University, USA

E-mail: pwhitten@msu.edu

Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA

E-mail: yangxiao@ieee.org


Electronic health (E-health) becomes a very important area, involving multiple fields, such as health, healthcare, public health, medical science, health service, data management, image processing, telecommunication, wireless network, operational research, etc. The purpose of the special issue is to provide quick journal paper publications on any topic related to E-Health. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

·        Health promotion, health prevention (e.g. of persons with risk factors)

·        Diagnosis, second opinion

·        Treatment, support to treatment

·        E-heath Decision support systems

·        Reducing error in healthcare delivery

·        Hospital based care

·        Ambulatory based care

·        Primary health based care

·        Home care

·        On the move care/support

·        Cross border care

·        Care in developing countries

·        International care

·        Reimbursement issues

·        Legal issues

·        E-heath education issues

·        E-heath change management issues

·        Change the way healthcare is delivered

·        Quality of Patient Care

·        Wireless/Mobile Telemedicine

·        E-health Data Management

·        Prevention of Medical Errors

·        E-health information Technology

·        Reduction of Healthcare Costs

·        Medical Image/Video Processing and Mining

·        Medical resource allocation, Optimization, and Simulation

·        E-health Text Mining

·        E-health Data Warehouses

·        Clinical Decision Support

·        Emergency Care

·        E-health Information Modeling and Integration

·        E-health Information Retrieval, Analysis, Visualization and Prediction

·        E-health Knowledge Discovery

·        Security, Privacy and Trust in E-health

·        Lessons Learned from E-health Information System Implementation

·        Tele-homecare and Ubiquitous Healthcare

·        Tele-presence and Robotics in Healthcare

·        E-Health Initiatives of World Bodies

·        Health Monitoring

·        Emerging Technologies for Rehabilitation

·        Tele-Rehabilitation and Tele-Physiotherapy

·        Sensor Networks for Patient and Elderly Care

·        Semantic Web in Healthcare

·        Navigation Systems for Healthcare

·        Computing for Human Experience and Wellness

·        Medical Nomadic Computing

·        Healthcare Industry Applications

·        Rural e-HealthCare Management

·        Healthcare Cost & Financial Analysis

·        Context-awareness for Smart Space in Healthcare

·        IT Infrastructures and Platforms for Remote Healthcare

·        etc.

Authors should follow the International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijta/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:


Schedule:

·        Submission deadline: May. 1, 2008, Jun 15, 2008

·        Notification: Aug. 1, 2008

·        Publication of special issue: Nov. 1 2008