IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society is pleased to announce the IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Point-Of-Care (POC) Healthcare Technologies that will focus on innovation, research, technology development and best practices in deployment of health monitoring technologies in developing and developed economies for better global healthcare. The conference will feature research presentations and technology panel discussions and forums on recent technological advances and global issues on implementation of POC technologies. Though the challenges of providing high-quality healthcare in developing countries are different than those in developed countries, there is a common goal to provide access to health monitoring and assessment technologies to people with limited or no healthcare facilities. While the developed countries may find POC technologies as effective means for reducing healthcare costs and improving efficiency, POC technologies are critical in responding to essential healthcare needs in countries with large populations or rural areas. The developing countries in the eastern part of the globe accounting for more than 2/3rd of the population of the world face the basic challenge of providing minimal healthcare to all people living in adverse geographical or economic constraints, and also monitoring critical diseases and infections such as HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, etc. The challenge becomes even more critical in the situation of potential outbreak of an epidemic. The proposed conference will provide an international forum to explore POC health monitoring technologies that could play significantly important role mode in ?well-being? of a healthy society with increasing proportion of elderly people.
The conference will provide a unique global networking opportunity with leading researchers, students medical and industry professionals, and policy makers in innovative healthcare technologies. http://pocht.embs.org/2013/ Plenary and Keynote Speakers Roderic Pettigrew, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, USA Nigel Lovell, Ph.D., Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Balram Bhargava, M.D., Professor AIIMS, Stanford-India Biodesign Program, India Anurag Mairal, Ph.D., Director Global Exchange Stanford-India Biodesign Program, USA and Executive VP, Orbees Medical, India Y.T. Zhang, Ph.D., Professor at CUHK, & Director, Key Lab for Health Informatics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (HICAS),China Shuming Nie, Ph.D., Distinguished Faculty Chair Professor & Director, Emory-Georgia Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center, USA May D. Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine, USA Kenji Sunagawa, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine at the Kyushu University Hospital, Japan. Soumyadipta Acharya, M.D., MSE, Ph.D., Director, Bioengineering Innovation and Design, John Hopkins University, USA Semahat Demir, Ph.D., Program Director, Biomedical Engineering Program, National Science Foundation, USA Paolo Bonato, Ph.D., Director Motion Analysis Laboratory, Physical Medicine & Rehab Department, Harvard Medical School, USA Tentative Program: January 16, 2013: Plenary Presentations; Invited Keynote Talks, and Panel Discussion; Opening Ceremony and Banquet January 17, 2013: Selected Oral Platform Presentations; Poster Sessions and Industry Networking Forums. January 18, 2013: Selected Oral Platform Presentations; Poster Session; Interactive Breakout Sessions; and Plenary Panel Discussion Closing Ceremony and Banquet Important Dates: Website opens for submissions of manuscripts for 4-page papers and poster presentations: July 15, 2012 Website closes for manuscript submissions: September 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2012 (authors of accepted papers must register for the conference by Nov 15) Final submissions: November 15, 2012 Industry exhibits proposals: November 1, 2012 Call For Papers and Conference Website: http://pocht.embs.org/2013/ Organizing Committees: Conference Chairs: Chair: Atam P. Dhawan, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor and Interim Dean NJIT, USA Co-Chair: Manju Mahadevappa, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, SMST, IIT Kharagpur, India Program Chairs: Chair: P K Dutta, Ph.D. ,Professor and Head SMST, IIT Kharagpur, India Co-Chair: Metin Akay, Ph.D., Chair, Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, USA International Program Chairs: Chair: Nitish Thakor Ph.D., Professor Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA Co-Chair: Gudrun Zahlmann, Manager, Imaging Infrastructure, ROCHE, Switzerland Local Organizing Committee Chair: Jayanta Mukherjee Ph.D., Professor and Head, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India Government/Industry Sponsorship and Participation (Invited): NIBIB, National Institutes of Health, USA Department of Biotechnology, India IBM Siemens, India Phillips, India GE Medical Systems, India Medtronic TATA TCS i2i Solutions FORUS Health IIT Khargpur, India IEEE EMBS KP Student Chapter Organized and Sponsored By: IEEE-EMBS 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ, USA Email Contact: [email protected] IIT Contact: [email protected] _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
