IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

CALL FOR PAPERS

for a Special Section on

"Healthcare Systems and Technologies"

The Theme: The market for healthcare services has increased exponentially. This is due to the growing tendency for personal
healthcare to move away from the traditional hubs of healthcare, such as hospitals and clinics, to the private home and especially the
mobile environment. In most developed countries an aging population contributes to the growth in the demand for distributed healthcare
services. As a result of the nature of healthcare, the precision and real-time delivery of data is crucial. To fulfill all these requirements,
advanced and smart technologies should be applied. For example, telehealth technologies can be used to tackle remote healthcare, and
optimization of healthcare systems is essential for improving reliability and efficiency. Furthermore, without compromising reliability,
energy saving methodologies are also required to prevent excessive energy consumption by healthcare systems. Another critical
consideration is the role of technology standards in this rapidly-evolving landscape, as pointed out in the recent release of the white paper
Standardize This: A Mobile Health Conversation You Can't Avoid, by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) in collaboration with
ICF International, examining the effect of mobile health information and communication technologies and its pervasive role.
This Special Session on Healthcare Systems and Technologies is focused on the development and application of advanced technologies
and methodologies for healthcare applications. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following research topics and technologies:
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in healthcare
Health and environmental monitoring systems
Optimization of healthcare systems and data transmission
Auto-diagnosis of diseases
Telehealth: wireless technologies in healthcare
Patient tracking and in-/on- body sensor networks
Internet-of-Things (IoT) in healthcare systems
Ambient intelligent technologies for healthcare services
Mobile health
The role of standards to mitigate technological risks, facilitate interoperability and save on costs
Papers discussing new application areas and the resulting new developments at the interface of ambient intelligent technologies and
healthcare are especially welcome.
All contributions must focus on the use of healthcare related applications. Results obtained by simulations must be validated by
experiments or analytical results.

Manuscript Preparation and Submission

Follow the guidelines in Information for Authors in the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics http://tii.ieee-ies.org/. Please submit
your manuscript in electronic format through the Manuscript Central web site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii. On the submission
page #1 in the popup menu of the manuscript type, select: SS on Healthcare Systems and Technologies
Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other
journal. Extended versions of papers previously published in conference proceedings may be eligible for consideration if conditions listed
in http://tii.ieee-ies.org/o/PC.pdf are fulfilled. Before submitting manuscript check the review criteria (http://tii.ieee-ies.org/o/RC.pdf) and
other information (http://tii.ieee-ies.org/o/DI.pdf)
Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published
outside the Special Section, at the EICs discretion.

Timetable:

Deadline for manuscript submissions

Expected publication date (tentative)

31 January 2015
September 2015

Guest Editors:
Gerhard P. Hancke, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
gerhard.hancke@up.ac.za
Kim-Fung Tsang, Electronic Engineering Department, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ee330015@cityu.edu.hk
Editor-in-Chief:

Kim-Fung Man, http://tii.ieee-ies.org/ eic.tii@gmail.com Tel: +852-3442-7754 Fax: +852-2788-7283

Head of the Electronic Engineering Department, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong.