7^th International Conference on Infrastructures in Healthcare(infraHEALTH 2019)

May 30-31, 2019,Vienna, Austria

Scope & Topics

Infrastructures should make healthcare smart in terms of improving quality and efficiency, enabling novel solutions to hitherto obstinate problems and challenges, as well as facilitating cooperation and coordination across sectors, organisational units, and divides between patients, healthcare professionals, and administration.

In the recent years, we have seen many examples of being smart. General practitioners can prescribe medicine to be immediately available at pharmacies and receive test results digitally. Patients can look into their own health records through a few clicks, and generate healthcare data themselves which can be scrutinized by healthcare staff. Electronic health records facilitate cooperation between physicians, nurses, labs, etc. with sofar unprecedented speed, and across multiple locations.

At the same time, we also see healthcare infrastructures where digitization does not lead to smartness. In the name of Big Data, healthcare professionals are required to do more and more precise documentation leading either to lower productivity or burnout. Envisioned effectivity through IT leads to lay off of support staff for clinicians, such as when secretaries helping physicians and nurses are fired, since IT is supposed to make the latter work smarter and with less support. Further, smart large repositories of data can lead to data-driven healthcare, but also entails risk of large-scale breaches of privacy.

Topics of Interest :

• Opportunities and challenges in the design and development of smart healthcare infrastructures
• Good and bad practices in designing and using smart infrastructures
• Smartness in scaling of views, connecting of devices, mobility and context-related use of technologies
• Smart uses of health service delivery, e.g., caring at home
• Smart support for informal caregivers, for instance for information, access to professionals or reaching out to peers or supporting associations
• Smart support for ad hoc needed emergencies, for example self-supporting elderly people living at home suddenly in need of health services
• Smart infrastructures that are instantiated when needed but otherwise non-intrusive or in the background awaiting their need
• Smart integration of healthcare across organisational units, professions, etc.
• When smartness is to not digitize or not use available infrastructures or IT
• Smart solutions to issues of privacy and security
• Discussions on what is smart and not in healthcare infrastructures
• Support for self-management of health through smart infrastructures
• Smart access to complex health related information for laypersons
• Smart visualization of healthcare data
• Emotional and social intelligence in infrastructures and healthcare
• Smart decision-making in healthcare

Important Dates :

Submission Deadline	:	February 15, 2019
Authors Notification	:	March 15, 2019
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due	:	April 12, 2019

 

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Posted 26-11-2018 on 15:51:02 AEDT

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