Special Session on Smart Medical Devices - From Lab to Clinical Practice

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Engineering smart sensors / actuators into usable devices

• Integrating smart devices into patient health systems

• Emerging commercial integration platforms

• Integrating patient systems with hospital infrastructure

• mHealth initiatives

• Emerging mHealth data broker platforms

• Interoperability on all levels

• Coping with heterogeneity

• Coping with variability

• Low power cryptography

• Roaming

• Patient in the loop

• Integrated medical systems as Cyber Physical Systems

• Regulatory and legal issues

• Continuous quality assessment

• Challenges for statistical analysis

• Managing data

• Security and privacy

• Blending mentalities and skills

• Applications of Computational Intelligence / Soft Computing / Artificial Intelligence methods to:

• medical system modelling

• adaptivity and autonomicity issues for sets of medical devices

• knowledge discovery and pattern recognition from medical data

• any of the above topics