IEEE HealthCom 2014
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CLOSING MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL CHAIRS

We want to congratulate all the HC'14 organizers for the outstanding work done towards the IEEE HealthCom 2014. Without that, we would have never been able carry out the event with such success, without unexpected event issues, as well as attendees complaints. We also want to congratulate all the participants, which enhanced the conference realization with active presence.

The program was strong enough to guarantee such a successful conference, with active and value-added interactions among all the participants. The technical sessions were organized with papers of outstanding content. Unfortunately, we had a significant number of no shows, and we could do nothing respect that, even in the case we tried to do all to guarantee oral presentations, by proposing video presentations.

We expect that all those who managed coming to Natal have enjoyed a lot the conference partcipation, the beauties of Natal, our food, and the reception of the Brazilians. For those who could not, we expect counting with your help in next editions towards yet another successful conference.

We took as example the brilliant conference organized in Lisbon by Dr. Joel Rodrigues and team, on october 2013, and I am sure they are proud about the HC’14.

We dedicate all our possible efforts in the sense to guarantee the best conference we could offer. Even so, I can securely say that it was an honor carrying out HC’14 for the first time in South America, with a high number of positive feed backs. Look forward to see you again in next IEEE ComSoc conferences, specially HC’15 in Boston.

Thanks all again, and we wish all the best for you.

Sincerely yours,

Augusto Venâncio Neto, José Neuman de Souza and the Organizing Committee members.

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WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL CHAIRS

Dear participants of the IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014 conference,
 
On behalf of the IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014 Organizing Committee, it is our great pleasure to welcome all of you to the 16th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services (IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014) held on October 15-18, 2014 and hosted in the wonderful Natal, one of the five biggest tourist destination in Brazil.
 
We are very glad to have the opportunity to take part in the organization of a conference that gathers researchers and professionals from academia and industry to share experiences and new ideas in such a dynamic area as eHealth technologies. In the new emerging knowledge based technologies and with the increase in life expectancy, it is crucial to find out new solutions to improve health services and applications, offering safe, comfortable, inexpensive, and reliable solutions. Close collaboration between industry and the scientific and academic community is a key success factor in the current highly competitive global marketplace. This cooperation is essential for industry, academia, and society, in general.
 
IEEE HealthCom is the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee (TC) on eHealth. As general chairs of this conference, it is our great honor to organize a high-level conference in our country. IEEE HealthCom 2014 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and technically sponsored by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.
 
After the 1st conference in Sydney, Australia, in 1999, IEEE HealthCom conferences have been successfully held yearly. We are greatly honored that this year’s conference is hosted for the very first time by our country, Brazil. I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all the people involved in the conference organization who have worked very hard for its success.
 
The conference offers an excellent program addressing the new frontiers of eHealth technologies and brings together experts from all over the world who come to Natal to share their expertise and new ideas. We received contributions from 48 countries and a total of 177 papers submitted for the main conference. The acceptation ratio is about 48.8%. The program includes sixteen technical sessions and a poster session, a demo session, three panels, four keynote speeches, five tutorials, four workshops, and industry Exhibition. The conference also promotes a social program to offer participants the opportunity to visit the beautiful city of Natal and its wonderful coastline.
 
It is our privilege to convey the community's gratitude to the conference patrons, namely to Cisco, IEEE Standards Association, CGI.br/NIC.br, and CAPES, as well as to the exhibitors and other sponsors and to the countless other volunteers who contributed in numerous ways to the success of the conference.
 
We hope our participants enjoy the technical discussions and the meetings with colleagues and discover the local culture and beauty.
 
I look forward meeting you all in person here in Brazil for an excellent event.
 
Sincerely,
 
Augusto Venâncio Neto
Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Researcher, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
General Chair, IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014
José Neuman de Souza
Professor, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil    
General Co-Chair, IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014


IEEE Healthcom 2014 aims at bringing together interested parties from around the world working in the health care field to exchange ideas, to discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and to develop collaborations. eHealth is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and the related fields, including health-care related services, surveillance, literature, education, knowledge, and research, both at the local site and at a distance. It will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. The adoption of eHealth technologies in medical fields creates huge opportunities yet lots of challenges still need to be resolved to build reliable, secure, and efficient networks or platforms with great flexibility.

Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the eHealth area. The topics include but are not limited to:

- Biomedical and biosensors engineering
- Body sensor networks and wearable sensor systems
- Clinical biofeedback, decision support systems, and tools
- eHealth information and network Infrastructure
- eHealth for public health (including disease prevention, emergency preparedness, epidemiologic interventions)
- eHealth for aging (to support quality of life for older adults, aging in place and independence)
- Emerging eHealth applications
- Health grid and health cloud
- Health monitoring, traffic characterization, & management
- ICT-enabled personal health system
- Image and video processing on eHealth
- Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare
- New IT-enhanced Models for Healthcare delivery
- Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth
- Practical Applications of e-Health
- Security and privacy on eHealth
- Storage and Display Devices for eHealth
- Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine

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