A Call for Chapters entitled 'E-Healthcare Systems And Wireless Communications: Current And Future Challenges' has been recently launched in an aim to provide a book about the research challenges associated with the successful and realistic implementation of future E-Healthcare.

The objective of this book is to explore the developments and current/future challenges in the successful deployment of future E-Healthcare Systems. The book will combine the research efforts in different disciplines from pervasive wireless communications, wearable computing, context-awareness, sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, neural networks, expert systems, databases, security and privacy. There has not been a book in the field of E-healthcare that combines all the up to date research challenges associated with the successful implementation of such systems.

The primary target audiences of this book are those who are interested in E-healthcare systems and related issues including scholars, researchers, developers and postgraduate students. In particular, the book will be a valuable companion and a comprehensive reference for graduate students who are taking a course in bioengineering or pervasive wireless communication systems. To provide greatest reading flexibility, the book will be organised in self-contained chapters. In general, this book is intended to assist researches in academia and industry to tackle the challenges in future E-Healthcare systems including accuracy, reliability, security and privacy. For researchers in the medical industry, this book helps them handle the challenges that await them on the road by implementing a "worth-full" and cost-effective pervasive and ubiquitous wireless communication system. Moreover, this book introduces them to the major innovations achieved by academia that might be valuable in their endeavors.

The list of the recommended but non-limitative topics is the following:

• Wireless communications in healthcare
• Security, privacy and legal issues in e-healthcare
• Autonomic Sensor Networks for Healthcare
• Middleware for e-health
• Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare
• Energy Efficiency in health monitoring
• RFID applications in e-healthcare
• Artificial intelligence and expert systems
• Wireless multimedia platforms
• User interface, usability and acceptability of e
• Wearable and Implantable sensors for healthcare
• Healthcare applications for clinicians
• Cyber physical systems for patient monitoring
• Home monitoring and ambient assisted applications
• E-Surgery using large bandwidth connections
• Wireless Body Area Networks
• Ata fusion and context elaboration
• System architecture and networking protocols
• Semantic Web in Healthcare
• Medical data analysis and management
• Standards and frameworks
• Modeling and performance evaluation

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 25 June 2010, only a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. A typical proposal will include a 1 page summary of the chapter followed by a short table of contents of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 15 July 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 15 September 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. 

The list of editorial members for the book include 19 different researchers in the areas of E-healthcare or pervasive and wireless communications. Thee editorial board members are affiliated with leading institutions from 9 different countries including (Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Nigeria, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates [UAE], the United Kingdom and the United States).

Further Information:

• Original press release  - IGI Global