ACM MedCOMM invites papers that
stimulate research in communications
or computer networks with application to
medical device communication
systems. Key properties include safety,
effectiveness, reliability,
and security.
There is an increasing trend toward the
convergence of wireless
communication, Internet connectivity,
and medicine. Devices with
advanced computer communication range
from body-worn health monitors
to implantable medical devices to remote
robotic medical devices in
the battlefield. A growing list of such
devices includes artificial
vision, brain-computer interfaces for
prosthetics, cardiac monitors,
defibrillators, digital mamography,
glucose monitors, infusion pumps,
insulin pumps, neurostimulators,
pacemakers, radiological electronic
picture archiving and communication
systems, and smart stents. All
these systems depend on the safe,
effective, reliable, and secure
communication and computer networking.
Advanced research on medical
communication systems will help
innovators of next-generation medical
technologies that aim to improve public
health in the digital age.
TOPICS
We solicit submissions on topics
including, but not limited to, the
following:
* Safe and effective network
architectures and protocols for highly
interoperable wireless medical devices
* Applications of cognitive radio to
maximize spectrum utilization and
spectrum sharing on unlicensed bands
* Data integrity and reliability issues
in allocated or unlicensed
spectrum
* Mobile phones as medical sensor gateways
* Ultra-low power communications
* Development of open medical
communication systems
* Communications and computer networks
designed for validation, formal
verification, or hazard analysis
* Usability issues, security/privacy
issues, regulatory/policy issues
* Industrial experiences, provider
experiences, regulator experiences
