Electronic Health
Call for Papers
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, and so forth. 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
- Telehomecare and ubiquitous healthcare
- Telepresence and robotics in healthcare
- E-Health initiatives of world bodies
- Health monitoring
- Emerging technologies for rehabilitation
- Telerehabilitation 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 and financial analysis
- Context-awareness for smart space in healthcare
- IT infrastructures and platforms for remote healthcare
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:
| Manuscript Due | May 1, 2008 |
| First Round of Reviews | August 1, 2008 |
| Publication Date | November 1, 2008 |
Guest Editor:
- Hui Chen, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 23806, USA
- Arnauld Nicogossian, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
- Silas Olsson, Healthaccess, Sweden
- Azhar Rafiq, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
- Max E. Stachura, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
- Mamoru Watanabe, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
- Pamela Whitten, Michigan State University, MI 48824, USA
- Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA