ABOUT IEEE HEALTHCOM 2011

Greetings! We invite you to participate in the 13th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom2011). Healthcom 2011 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society.

The conference has been successfully held in Sydney, Australia (1999 and 2000), L’Aquila, Italy (2001), Nancy, France (2002), Santa Monica, USA (2003), Odawara, Japan (2004), Busan, Korea (2005), New Delhi, India (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Singapore (2008), Sydney, Australia (2009), and Lyon, France (2010). In 2011, the conference will be held in Columbia, Missouri, USA – the heartland of America and home of the University of Missouri.

The main theme of HealthCom 2011 is “technology-enabled personalized medicine” to provide preventive and therapeutic care that is optimized for individual patient subpopulations. The advancement of m-Health (mobile device technologies, networking, telecommunications), e-Health (electronic health records, telemedicine, consumer health informatics), and genomics (high-throughput sequencing of human genome), will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. Healthcom 2011 is an opportunity to bring 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. Participants include clinicians, hospital administrators, government agencies, informaticians, engineers, IT professionals, researchers, educators, healthcare solutions vendors, consultants, and students.

See you in Columbia, Missouri, USA in June 2011!

Chi-Ren Shyu General Chair	George Demiris Program Co-Chair	Kendall Ho Program Co-Chair