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The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Integrated Smart Healthcare (WISH
2019)
July 15-19, 2019, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
https://sites.google.com/view/wish2019
https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2019/wish/


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Designing pervasive systems for Smart Healthcare environments poses many
challenges, e.g. with respect to intelligence, scalability,
interoperability, robustness, analytics, monitoring, user involvement,
safety and privacy, etc. The goal of this workshop is to explore these
challenges through practical and buildable solutions. We aim to gather the
principal practitioners and their experiences under one roof to discuss
their findings, incite collaboration and move the state of the art forward.
We plan to position this forum as the premier venue for presenting and
discussing work in progress in how to develop and maintain pervasive
computing solutions in Smart Health domain.
Smart healthcare emerges as a novel technology that aims to provide
round-the-clock monitoring of several vital signs of patients using various
health sensors, specialized communication protocols, and intelligent
context-aware applications. Smart healthcare applications proactively
contact the caregiver provided any abnormality arises in the health
condition of a monitored patient. It has been a boon to the patients
suffering from different diseases and requiring continuous monitoring and
care, such as, disabled individuals, assisted living, children of different
ages, and adults who are susceptible to near-fatal falls or sudden
increases in blood pressure, heart rates, stress level, etc. Since, there
are heterogeneous devices and communication technologies introduced by
different companies, major issues that need to be addressed are (1) A
unified platform to facilitate coordination between the large-scale device
distributions, (2) plug-and-play type inclusion of newer health sensors and
replacing old ones without destabilizing the system, (3) Securing personal
health records collected over multiple devices, and finally (4) collecting,
managing, storing and making decisions over several critical healthcare
events composing various real-time data traces. Applying machine
intelligence techniques by AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine
Learning) researchers for intelligent and decentralized decision making in
Healthcare should also be considered for the distributed Smart Health
applications.

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The workshop is supposed to stir interesting discussions on various
challenging topics on smart healthcare, such as, data acquisition and
context reasoning, analytics and knowledge management, architectural and
algorithmic issues, energy-efficiency, data verification, complex pervasive
computing interactions, cost efficiency, data privacy and security, etc.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Wearable and implantable wireless sensors for healthcare
• Computing for Health Internet-of-Things
• IoT-Health case studies, testbeds & experimental results
• Interoperable & connected medical devices
• Distributed Smart Health platform comprising multiple sensors
• Energy efficiency in wireless health monitoring
• Usability, user friendliness and reusability
• Safety-critical smart health systems
• Communications infrastructure for mobile healthcare apps
• Protocols for wireless healthcare
• Secure Computing for Healthcare Systems
• Securing healthcare data exchange
• Interference analysis & mitigation for IoT-health devices
• Performance modelling of mobile healthcare systems
• Big data in healthcare
• Scalability, performance and reliability of smart health mobile apps
• Data fusion, data mining and event detection
• Diagnostic and decision support algorithms (using Machine Learning and AI)
• Computing platforms for natural language processing on electronic health
records
• Patient tracking & localization technology
• Detection, control and spread of epidemics
• Predictive analytics for Rural Healthcare solutions
• Multi-modal device interaction
• People-Sensing and Crowdsourcing
• User experience and adaptation
• Accessibility
• Decision theoretic models in rural healthcare
• Hardware assisted intelligent systems design for smart healthcare
applications
• Intelligent hardware / embedded systems for smart healthcare
• Application of emerging technologies in smart healthcare systems design
• Other emerging design / modelling aspects of such systems / applications

We also welcome papers on novel applications or environments that have a
strong Smart Health component, especially if those novel applications and
environments challenge existing ideas and design techniques.

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General Co-Chairs

Md Osman Gani, Miami University, USA
Vaskar Raychoudhury, Miami University, USA
Ferdaus Ahmed Kawsar, East Tennessee State University, USA

Keynote Speaker:
Adib Zaman, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, Purdue
University, USA

Web Chair
Vaskar Raychoudhury, Miami University, USA

Program Committee Members

• Christian Krupitzer, University of Würzburg, Germany
• Shahriar Nirjon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Navrati Saxena, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
• Brian Bennett, East Tennessee State University, USA
• Adib Zaman, Purdue University, USA
• Janick Edinger, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Esra Erdin, East Tennessee State University, USA
• Weiping Zhu, Wuhan University, China
• Mohammad Khan, East Tennessee State University, USA
• Abhishek Roy, Samsung Electronics, South Korea
• G M Tanimul Ahsan, University of Wisconsin Green Bay, USA

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Deadline for paper submission: March 31, 2019
Notification of acceptance:    May 1, 2019
Camera-ready due:         May 17, 2019
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