Mobile and Wireless Health Technologies
Publication date: May/June 2012
Submission deadline: CLOSED
The expanded use of cellular and wireless technologies in healthcare applications can provide significant benefits in terms of cost effectiveness, patient safety, and quality of care. In particular, patients can benefit from the increased independence and mobility provided by mobile health (mHealth) applications for home healthcare, remote monitoring, and access to health-related information.
For the May/June 2012 issue of IT Professional, we are soliciting submissions related to mHealth. Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Smartphone applications for mHealth
- Regulatory and standards issues for mHealth devices
- Social networking and mHealth
- Privacy and security for mHealth
- mHealth for emergency responders
- mHealth assistive technologies for the aged and disabled
- mHealth applications and usage
- mHealth emerging trends
- mHealth case studies
- mHealth architecture and interoperability
Feature articles should be no longer than 4,200 words and have no more than 20 references (with tables and figures counting as 300 words each). Illustrations are welcome. For author guidelines, including sample articles, see www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/acitpro.
Submit your article at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itpro-cs.
Questions?
For information, contact the Guest Editors:
- Thomas Jepsen, IT Consultant
- Chien-Yeh Hsu, Taipei Medical University
- Simon Lui, US Nat'l Agricultural Library