*Call for Papers**
*2nd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Consumer Health Care 
Networks, Systems and Services (MobiCHeSS’13)
Held in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary

*Goals and Topics**
*Healthcare providers from around the globe are currently faced with 
significant challenges due to an exponential rise in costs, increased 
demand for services, and limited access to financial and human 
resources. This is directly linked to the fact that people are living 
longer with an expected 761 million of us being over the age of 65 by 
2025. This will increase the risk of chronic disease and other 
co-morbidities amongst the elderly and estimates suggest that treating 
this particular group of people currently accounts for 78% of all 
healthcare expenditure (over a trillion US dollars per year) with

spending expected to be $4.3 trillion in 2018 compared to $27.5 billion 
in 1960. Whilst increasing life expectancy is at an all-time high, it 
has become difficult to sustain. One suggestion is that quality of life 
and life expectancy can be increased through healthy aging and lifestyle 
choices. Positive behavioural changes will empower people and support 
the prevention of acute episodes, including the provision of provide 
better services that are tailored to people’s healthcare needs.
This presents a unique opportunity were the use of information and 
communications technology could be used to support the delivery and 
management of healthcare services. Building on advances in Smartphone 
technologies and wireless communications it is possible to bridge the 
gap between people and medical facilities and transform healthcare 
services and clinical intervention within the community. These 
technologies, as
well as allowing us to make a phone call, text a 
friend, or update our social networking site, provide access to vital 
data about a person that can be collected and analysed to support 
research, medical and healthcare education, and clinical practice with 
less reliance on secondary care (hospital admissions).

Empowering people in the community, particularly the aging population, 
allows them to evaluate lifestyle choices and to take control of their 
own healthcare needs. Diseases, such as diabetes and obesity are often 
caused by an accumulation of unmonitored health-related choices, such as 
poor nutrition and lack of exercise, which occur over decades rather 
than weeks or months. Smartphones, body sensors, and wireless 
communications provide the necessary tools to host community healthcare 
services and applications capable of real-time monitoring and analysis 
of lifestyle choices. Using digital
diaries, social networking, SMS, 
amongst other technologies, makes it possible to manage adherence and 
provide education about relevant medical conditions, such as cystic 
fibrosis, sexual health, poor nutrition and the lack of exercise. All 
this will have the ability to empower people and encourage personal 
consumer healthcare beyond what is currently possible.

Nonetheless, due to the criticality of healthcare and the complex 
coordination and delivery of healthcare services it is not surprising 
that we have not seen widespread adoption of mobile ICT in health. The 
healthcare domain is sensitive to change and this will require new 
processes, methodologies and tools, and this comes at a time when 
sustainable health is becoming increasingly more difficult. From a 
technical perspective, a number of challenges still remain and form part 
of the topics under this call for papers. The workshop seeks workshop

proposal submissions (consisting of a paper) on all theoretical and 
practical aspects of mobile consumer healthcare networks, services and 
applications, as well as experimental studies of fielded systems on 
topics including, but not limited to, those shown below:

•    Mobile applications for elderly healthcare
•    Mobile applications for adherence monitoring in aggressive 
treatment regimens
•    Mobile devices for healthcare
•    Scalability, performance and reliability of mobile healthcare apps
•    Mobile interfaces for data Visualization
•    Mobile devices for patient monitoring
•    Ad hoc and wireless sensor systems and networks
•    Mobile data management and processing
•    Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare applications
•    Radio-Frequency (RFID) wireless technology in medical devices
•    Wireless Identification and Services Platform (WISP) for
mobile 
healthcare
•    Medical Device Control via Wireless Technology
•    Safe, Effective, Secure and Reliable Use of Wireless Technology in 
healthcare
•    Wearable and implantable sensors
•    Sensor Networks for ubiquitous and pervasive healthcare
•    Health specific wireless communication protocols in healthcare 
(WMTS, IMS, MICS)
•    Wireless Body Area Networks
•    Consumer Healthcare (cHealth)
•    Stream reasoning algorithms for behaviour and activity monitoring

*Guidelines for Submission**
*Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently 
under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been 
previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical 
paper manuscript length (maximum 1 additional page with over-length page 
charge if accepted). http://www.ieee-icc.org/2013/submguide.html
The paper should be used as the basis for a 20 - 30 minute workshop 
presentation. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format by 
selecting ICC'13 on the EDAS paper submission website and then selecting 
the workshop submission link or by going directly to 
http://edas.info/N13443
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by 
the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). At least one author of 
accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate.

*Important Dates**
*Paper Submission:             8 January 2013
Accept. Notification:        22 February 2013
Camera-Ready Paper:          5 March 2013
Workshop:                                    June 2013

*Workshop co-Chairs**
*Dr Paul Fergus, Liverpool John Moores
University, UK
Dr Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, UK


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