Subject: [nemo] Journal Special Issue on Electronic Health ( Due on May 1)

From: Yang Xiao <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:41:52 -0700 (PDT)

NEWS: International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA) is
 now available on the public PubMed Central (PMC) site under the U.S.
 National Institutes of Health (NIH). 

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA)
Special Issue Announcement 
Electronic – Health  

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
·        Notification: Aug. 1, 2008
·        Publication of special issue: Nov. 1 2008

Guest Editors
 
Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA
E-mail: [email-masked] 
Arnauld Nicogossian, George Mason University, USA
E-mail: [email-masked] 
Silas Olsson, Healthaccess, Sweden
E-mail: [email-masked] 
Azhar Rafiq, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
E-mail: [email-masked] 
Max E. Stachura, Medical College of Georgia, USA
E-mail: [email-masked] 
Mamoru Watanabe, University of Calgary, Canada 
E-mail: [email-masked] 
Pamela Whitten, Michigan State University, USA
E-mail: [email-masked]
Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA
E-mail: [email-masked]