The conference organizers call for innovative paper submissions describing knowledge beyond the state of the art in the area pHealth as outlined above.
Submission should address – but are not limited to – the following topics:

Wearable and implantable devices and systems

• Sensors and sensing technologies, actuators and patient diagnostic systems
• Bio-signal processing and analysis
• Wireless body area network
• Sensor pattern recognition and data fusion

Solutions for personalized care and food safety (nutrition)

• Personalized diagnostics, care, therapy, and rehabilitation
• Addressing food safety with smart systems
• Biomedicine, biomechanics, bioelectronics, bio-photonics and pHealth
• Artificial organs

Data and knowledge management and methodologies

• Big (bio) data and the quantified self
• Business analytics and visualization
• Secure data sharing across trust domains
• Personal health records, patient-centered data management, and cloud services
• Data processing and algorithm in eHealth and pHealth

Interoperable ICT and telemedicine

• Connected health and integrated care
• Cross-domain and cross-border health information systems and services
• Telemedicine and home hospital
• Multi-scale and multi-level decision support systems
• Success stories and failure reports

mHealth applications

• Bridging mHealth and pHealth applications
• Health behaviour changes and behavioral Health services
• Inclusive user interfaces for pHealth
• Wellness apps, ambient assisted living, active healthy aging, and lifestyle management
• Certification of mHealth and mobile devices for eHealth and pHealth

Security, privacy, safety, and ethics issues in pHealth

• Identity management, trust and trustworthiness as enablers for pHealth
• Security, privacy, privacy enhancing technologies, and ethics in pHealth
• Socio-technical approaches to security in healthcare
• Future needs for regulation, certification and labelling
• Medication and patient safety issues

Challenges and solutions in health education and training

• BME and MP education, training and professional development
• Education of biomedical engineering and medical physics professionals
• Education of other important user groups including patients and social circles
• Education of general public concerning pHealth, wearables, etc.

Game for personalized health

• Gamification of health care from a patient perspective
• Serious games for training health care professionals
• Games for public health care
• Game development tools used for the creation of health technology
• Virtual / augmented / mixed reality games for health

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) in identity management, health and medicine

• Innovative use of blockchain technology for medical records
• Blockchain for verification of medical treatment and information
• Blockchain for tracking of medical processes / objects / and pharmaceuticals
• Identity and data management in the context of health and medicine