Papers and Presentations Programme

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The Hong Kong Web Symposium Consortium is pleased to invite you to participate in the 2011 Enhancing Healthcare Education, Research & Practice Symposium as part of the 2011 International Conference on ICT in Teaching and Learning to be held in Hong Kong 11-13 July 2011.

The continuing innovation and development in medicine, life sciences and technology are constantly creating new and improved opportunities to prevent, diagnose, treat and monitor diseases and promote health. We encourage attendance and presentations from Biomedical, Bioinformatics, Healthcare, Education and Engineering professionals interested in the application of technology in enhancing healthcare education, research and practice. The symposium seeks to offer a cross-section of experience and views from healthcare professionals, administrators, researchers and practitioners.

The Symposium will include keynote addresses, paper presentations, workshops and demonstration. Paper/Power-point presentations are welcome on topics relevant to the theme of 'Enhancing Healthcare Education, Research & Practice through Technology'. The Symposium is dedicated to design, development, management, implementation, technology, and application issues in e-healthcare. The Symposium aims to help professionals working in the field, academic educators and policymakers to contribute, to disseminate knowledge, and to learn from each other’s work through cutting edge thinking in healthcare. The Program Committee welcomes basic and applied papers dealing with subjects within the wide spectrum of information technology applications in health, healthcare and biomedicine. The following areas are particularly suitable (but are not limited to):

• Bioinformatics
• Innovative Healthcare Teaching
• Web 2.0 Healthcare Application
• Cost Issues in e-Healthcare
• Cultural, Social and Political Issue in e-Healthcare
• Data Mining in Healthcare/Bioinformatics
• Data Warehousing in Hospitals/Digital Hospital
• e-Doctor, e-Pharmacy & e-Prescription
• e-Healthcare and Social Exclusion
• e-Payments & e-Healthcare
• GIS in Healthcare Systems
• Health Informatics
• Information Quality and e-Healthcare
• Knowledge Management in Hospitals
• Mobile Healthcare
• Nursing Informatics
• Physician Order Entry System
• Privacy in Biometric Technologies
• Quality Management in e-Healthcare
• Reengineering and e-Healthcare
• Remote Patient Monitoring
• RFID Applications
• Risk Assessment in Healthcare
• Signal Processing in Mobile Healthcare
• Smart Sensor Networks
• KM in e-Healthcare
• Telemedicine
• Tele-surgery
• Web/Wireless Services for Healthcare
• IT Applications in Medical Tourism

• Ir Prof. Paul Kwok, (PhD, University of Cambridge), FIEE, FHKIE, OUHK;
• Dr. Tsang Man-Wo, (FRCP(Lond, Edin, Glasg), FHKCP, FHKAM), Head of Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, United Christian Hospital;
• Prof. Niilo Saranummi, Director, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland;
• Prof. R A Vingerhoeds, Consulting Editor, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, France;
• Dr. Ian Yip, MD, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA;
• Ir Jolly Wong, Chair, Far East Regional Network, The Institute of Engineering & Technology.

• Prof. Bebo White (Stanford University, USA);
• Prof. Jim Yu (CUHK, Hong Kong);
• Prof. Rifat Latifi (U of Arizona);
• Prof. Pradeep Ray (U of New South Wales);
• Prof. W K Wong (HKUST, Hong Kong);
• Dr. Yoshie Osamu (Japan);
• Dr. Laurence T Yang (St Francis Xavier University, Canada);
• Dr. Maria Indrawan (Monash University, Australia);
• Dr. Nguyen Manh Tho (ISTIS, Austria);
• Prof. Willy Susilo (University of Wollongong, Australia);
• Dr. Bob Fox (HKU, Hong Kong);
• Dr. Zoe Lacroix (Arizona State University, USA);
• Dr. Henrik Stormer (University of Fribourg, Switzerland);
• Dr. John Sum (Central Taiwan Medical University);
• Dr. Vanessa Ng (OUHK, Hong Kong);
• Dr. Y H Tam (Prince of Wales Hospital).

• Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (Bio Medical Division)
• Institute of Information and Technology Engineers (HK Section)
• The Institution of Engineering and Technology

30 March 2011
Full papers should not exceed ten A4 pages in length. Both the title and the name(s) of the author(s) should be included.
Please email your abstract to Prof. Philip Tsang: editor@hkwebsym.org.hk

Selected papers will be published as book chapters in the ICT2011 monograph. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in the following sponsoring journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Info Tech in Biomedicine
• International Journal of e-Health
• Journal of eHealth Technology and Application
• International Journal of Innovation in Learning
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• International Journal of Mobile Communications

Ir Prof. Philip Tsang, SrMIEEE, MHKIE
Email: pstang@hkwebsym.org.hk
or
Ms. Mary Ho
Email: smho@cihe.edu.hk

Website: http://www.ict2011.com/

Fee: HK$3,510 (US$450)
(inclusive of lunches)

Note: The registration fee also covers attendance at the main ICT Conference sessions.

Registration:
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Day 1 (11 July 2011): Caritas Institute of Higher Education
Day 2 (12 July 2011): St Paul’s Hospital
Day 3 (13 July 2011): The Open University of Hong Kong