Contributions are sought addressing current research and practice in telehealth, including:

Original unpublished contributions in all fields of telemedicine, telehealth and related areas of eHealth are invited.  All papers will be subject to expert peer review by an international program committee of experts in the field.  Authors have the opportunity to submit either Full Papers (maximum 10 pages or approx 4000 words), or Short Papers (maximum 2 pages or approx 1000 words).  Submissions must contain clear aims, methods, results and conclusions for the work reported; and must also be referenced appropriately.

Papers will be judged on originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to the conference themes, and presentation.  Submission of a Full paper or Short Paper will be regarded as an undertaking that, should it be accepted, at least one author will register and attend the conference to present the work.  Authors may submit more than one paper, provided it meets the conditions outlined earlier.

Submissions should be formatted using the style guide (see manuscript preparation) and must be submitted by the submission due date below.  Accepted Full Papers will be presented orally, while accepted Short Papers may be selected for either oral or poster presentation.

Publication:

All Full Papers and some selected Short Papers will be published in a special volume of the prestigious book series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, published by IOS Press (The Netherlands).  A copy of this volume of proceedings will be provided to all registered delegates of the conference.

Inclusion of papers in this book imposes strict adherence to all deadlines associated with the proceedings. No extension of these deadlines is possible.

Manuscript preparation:

• IOS Press has instructions and tools for book authors on how to prepare and submit a camera-ready manuscript in MS Word or LaTeX.  Please read the instructions carefully.
• The tools for authors include:

      1. a Word template

      2. a LaTeX stylefile

• Click here to download the zipfile with the instructions and tools for MS Word.
• Click here to download the zipfile with the instructions and tools for LaTeX.

Submission of manuscript:

• Manuscripts must be carefully prepared using the IOS style template
• Correctly formatted manuscripts should be uploaded to the paper submission website
• All papers must be received by Monday 2nd August 2010.

• When your paper is ready, click here to upload it.

Review process:

• All papers will be subject to peer-review
• Notification of acceptance to authors will be provided by Wednesday 25th August 2010
• Final camera-ready version of manuscript (including revisions) must be returned by authors before Friday 3rd September 2010.

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

This book series was started in 1990 to promote research conducted under the auspices of the EC programmes’ Advanced Informatics in Medicine (AIM) and Biomedical and Health Research (BHR) bioengineering branch. A driving aspect of international health informatics is that telecommunication technology, rehabilitative technology, intelligent home technology and many other components are moving together and form one integrated world of information and communication media. The complete series has been accepted in Medline, Scopus, EMCare and Cinahl Database. Volumes from 2005 onwards are available online.

Further information - IOS Press Publications

Registration

It is a requirement for paper acceptance that at least one author is registered for the conference.  A reduced speakers' registration fee is available.

Call for Workshops and Tutorials:

The conference will offer a limited number of half-day Workshops, for presentation of “work-in-progress” on thematically related sets of current Telehealth projects, and half-day Tutorials, for experts to provide concentrated overviews on topics of contemporary interest.  These associated events will be available to delegates at very modest fees. These will be held on the morning of Wednesday 10 November, before the main conference opening.  Proposals should be for quarter-day (1-1.5 hours) or half day (3 hours) duration

We are now calling for proposals for workshops and tutorials.  If you or your organisation are interested in presenting a workshop or tutorial please contact Emma Toovey emmat@eecw.com.au with a 1-page summary proposal.

Prof Anthony Maeder (University of Western Sydney) and Dr Anthony Smith (University of Queensland), co-chairs.

Scientific Review Committee

Nigel Armfield, The University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Jim Basilakis, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Professor Elizabeth Beattie, The Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Dr Mark Bensink, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Heidi Bjering, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Dr Liam Caffery, Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jennifer Chipps, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Professor Trevor Cradduck, COACH; Canada's Health Information Association, Canada
Bernard Crowe, Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Joanne Curry, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Adjunct Professor Rob Eikelboom, Ear Science Institute Australia, Australia
Dr Marilynne Hebert, University of Calgary, Canada
Denise Irvine, E3 Health Ltd, New Zealand
Frank LIEVENS, ISfTeH, Belgium
Professor Anthony Maeder, The University of Western Sydney, Australia
Dr James Marcin, UC Davis Children's Hospital, USA
Professor Maurice Mars, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Dr Melinda Martin-Khan, Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Robert McCrossin, Queensland Health, Australia
Dr John Menzies, JTA International, Australia
Leif Erik Nohr, Norwegican Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, Norway
Steven Normandin, AMD Global Telemedicine, USA
Dr Andre Petitet, ISfTeH/CATEL, France
Dr Trevor Russell, The University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Anthony Smith, Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Australia
Megan White, Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Laurie Wilson, CSIRO, Australia
Adjunct Professor Jeanine Young, Royal Children's Hospital and Health Service, Australia
Henry Zhuang, The Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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