Call for Papers ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET) SPECIAL ISSUE ON Evolving Mobile and Electronic Health

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Overview: Currently, eHealth field has reached a maturity level in which it has become common the support of electronic processes and communication in the planning and delivering of healthcare services to citizens. Established applications of eHealth include the use of EHRs, telemedicine services, clinical decision support systems and ePrescription among others. Conversely, mHealth is evolving in a fast way to support the practice of medicine and in general by means of the use of mobile devices. While both concepts are currently well-accepted at large scale, still there are numerous challenges related to their full implementation and successful adoption at scale (e.g. regulatory, technological, etc.). Moreover, due to the rapid evolution of mobile and communication technologies, the type of application scenarios, potential empowerment of different stakeholders, availability of pervasive devices enabled by IoT, etc. the field is on constant evolution and reshaping. This Special Issue intends to collect articles presenting the latest innovations in the field of mobile and electronic health reflecting the current state of the art and shaping the future evolutions on this field.

Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope: - Personalised eHealth and mHealth applications - Remote and integration of patient data from multiple sources - Multimodal health/wellbeing data analysis - Innovative approaches to mHealth therapy and interventions - Behaviour change theories applied to mHealth - Wearable and implantable devices for health - Evaluation of novel pervasive health systems - Clinical validation of mHealth approaches - IoT and electronic/mobile health - Serious games for healthcare - Multimedia, networking and QoE in mobile and electronic health - /mhealth scenarios - Big data in mHealth - Security and Privacy on healthcare data management

Important Dates:  Manuscript submission deadline: September 1st, 2016  Notification of acceptance: November 15th, 2016  Submission of final revised paper: December 15st, 2016  Publication of special issue (tentative): Winter/Spring 2017

Submission Procedure: Authors should follow the MONET Journal manuscript format described at the journal site.Manuscripts should be submitted on-line through http://www.editorialmanager.com/mone/. A copy of the manuscript should also be emailed to the following email: [email protected]……….. Authors need to register to submit their papers.

Guest Editors: Oscar Mayora – CREATE-NET, Italy Nuria Oliver – Telefonica R&D, Spain http://www.springer.com/journal/11036