2020 IEEE SERVICES - 2nd IEEE Digital Health as a Service Symposium/SMDS Symposium

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Call for Papers

Symposium Dates: October 20-21

DHAASS aims to bring together leading researchers, community leaders and visionaries from academia and industry, end-users, and healthcare professionals, in the area of digital health to share their research, practical experience, and visions of the future of sustainable health and social care transformations.

Looking at the health and integrated care system through services spectacles reveal significant opportunities for engaging digital health to affect an ecosystem shift in which a new health delivery model is unleashed. Engaging multiple and new roles, including communities and individual patients in their own integrated healthcare services delivery is one of the promising opportunities which can be made possible by the microservices structuring of the health and care system . Broadly speaking, related discovery, composition and provision of healthcare services will need to be based on cutting-edge computer technologies and digital media/data so that quality factors including timing, granularity, scale, cost-effectiveness, safety, security, privacy, and precision are integral parts of the healthcare value chain ecosystem. Digital Health services can include, among many other innovative methods, preventive and predictive capabilities of machine learning based data analytics, actionable recommendations based on in-situ monitoring and assessment of an individual’s real-time physical and cognitive performance, trade-off analysis between cloud-based versus edge-based sensory data streaming and data analytics.

DHAASS will embrace a broad spectrum of issues and concerns, including, but not limited to, the following topics related to digital health as services:

Microservices models and architectures of health and integrated care services
Disease/condition-specific provider microservice design (e.g., diabetes, obesity, COPD, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, Ear, Nose and Throat Conditions (ENT))
Patient/user-side microservices design (user needs, social isolation, assistive living for older adults and individuals with special needs, emergencies)
Standardizing provider-side and user-side microservices. FHIR resources, profiles and extension for digital health as a service
Microservices-based delivery pathways co-design and provider acceptability
Informatic, cybernetic and mediatic digital health platforms supportive of implementing microservices architecture
Community crowd-sourcing for delivery of health and care microservices

Mediation technology for peer group support (peer-sourcing)
Qualifying and activating user-side microservice requests: eligibility, fairness, properness, among other qualifications including irrational service user models (e.g., a dementia patient requesting the microservice repeatedly and forgetfully)
mHealth services and applications which include the use of mobile devices

Health economics of microservices-oriented care delivery systems

Submissions

Submitted papers must be solely the work of the author(s), must not have been previously published elsewhere, and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We strongly encourage interdisciplinary work involving end-users, health professionals, care providers and/or clinicians. We also encourage sharing of research tools and reproducible data as supplementary materials.

Four types of main track submissions:

Full Research Papers: These papers describe original research contributions to the field of digital health. A research paper should clearly describe the problem, the state of the art with respect to the problem, the proposed solution and the validation and evaluation of the solution. (8 pages)
Work-In-Progress: We also call for short research papers, which are intended to report WIP and early stage projects without complete validation and evaluation. (3 pages)
Health Professional Track: Health professionals are invited to submit their experiences. This submission follows the format of Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions. (3 pages)
Industrial Track: We invite technology- and product -focused submissions by the digital health technology industry. (2 pages)

Posters and Demos:

Tutorials:

Panel Proposals:

Digi-Healthon:

General manuscript guidelines and submission information is available at: https://conferences.computer.org/services/2020/cfp/callforpapers.html

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeedhaass2020

UPDATED: Important Dates

Submissions are due on: ~~February 13 March 12, 2020~~ June 5, 2020 (5:00 am, UTC)
Final notification to authors: ~~April 13 April 23, 2020~~ July 3, 2020
Camera ready manuscripts due: ~~April 27 May 7, 2020~~ July 20, 2020

Submissions are due on: ~~March 30 April 20, 2020~~ June 19, 2020 (5:00 am, UTC)
Final notification to authors: ~~April 13 May 4, 2020~~ July 3, 2020
Camera ready manuscripts due: ~~April 27 May 18, 2020~~ July 20, 2020

Proceedings

DHAASS 2020 proceedings will be published as in a separate volume (entitled SERVICES) for the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Services, which will also publish proceedings as separate volumes for the other four co-located conferences including IEEE CLOUD, IEEE ICWS, IEEE SCC and IEEE SMDS. For the contents of DHAASS 2019 published by IEEE, please refer to the SERVICES 2019 Volume at: https://conferences.computer.org/services/2020/proceedings/

Organization

Steering Committee:

General Chairs:

Program Co-Chairs:

Posters and Demo Chairs:

Digi-Healthon Chair:

Program Committee