The First International Conference on Global Health Challenges GLOBAL HEALTH 2012 October 21 - 26, 2012 - Venice, Italy

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Colocated with other events part of DataSys 2012 Posters will be presented during the conference A Work in Progress track is available for preliminary work A Research Ideas track is available for ideas in early stages Submission (full paper) June 7, 2012 June 25, 2012 Notification July 23, 2012 Registration August 7, 2012 Camera ready August 7, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-61208-243-1

Published by IARIA XPS Press Archived in the free access ThinkMindTM Digital Library Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.

Tracks:

FUNDAMENTALS
Foundations in global health informatics; Computational health; Software for health; Independent living technologies; ICT and health; Platform interoperability; Semantic interoperability; Diagnosis systems; Applied health informatics; User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY
Bio-medical semantics; Bio-medicine; Disease biomarker prediction; Applications of bio-nano technology; Body networks; Mobile healthcare; Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS
Clinical epigenetic; Long term health conditions; Ambient assisted; Genetics; Virtual reality in medicine surgery; Clinical trials; Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics; Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE
Nursing; Patient-centered care; Personalized medicine; Pervasive health; Homecare; Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE
Biomedicine; Natural medicine; Preventive medicine; Chronic diseases following; Home surveillance

CHALLENGES
Security aspects and access control on medical data; Data management in pervasive context; Data quality assurance and provenance; Patient flow models in hospitals; Clinical data analysis; Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL
eHealth initiatives; Social medicine; Health global accessibility; Epidemic spreading and control; Health Education; Providing health in remote areas; Decision support within healthcare; Ethical aspects in eHealth; Healthcare plans and patient benefits; Synchronization of federal regulations; Availability of medication; Community health services