[AISWorld] Join us in Lisbon, Portugal - HCist’2013 International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies - call for papers

[Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha]

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---------- HCist’2013  |  Call for Papers
---------- International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies
---------- Lisbon, Portugal, 2013, 23-25 October
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---------- Submission deadline: May 15, 2013
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---------- http://hcist.eiswatch.org
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Dear Prof./Dr./Mrs./Mr.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to HCist 2013 – International
Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and
Technologies. HCist’2013 will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 23 to 25
October.

All accepted full papers will be included in the conference Proceedings
edited by Elsevier Procedia Technology. Papers can also be accepted as
posters, and an extended abstract of it will be published in a book of
abstracts (with ISBN) or in a CD-ROM (with ISBN). Authors of selected
papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in edited
books and in the following indexed international journals (list not yet
complete):

  - International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and
Informatics (IJHISI) (about five papers).
  - International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-healthcare (IJRQEH)
(about five papers).
  - International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications
(IJEHMC) (about five papers)
  - Information and Communication Technologies for the Advanced
Enterprise: an international journal - ICT'ae (one or two papers).
  - International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) (one or two papers).

---------- Submission Procedure

Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and
industry papers:

  - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research,
including discussion of research findings. Full papers should have
between seven and ten pages, considering the template and the guidelines
provided;

  - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research.
Short papers should be between four to six pages in length, considering
the template and the guidelines provided;

  - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a
discussion phase. Poster papers should have three pages in length;

  - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research,
applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope
and topics. Page length can vary between four and six pages.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript
electronically at the Conference webpage: http://hcist.eiswatch.org
until May 15, 2013.

Submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

With our best regards,

---------- Conference Co-chairs
---  Ricardo Martinho (ricardo.martinho at ipleiria.pt) - Polytechnic
Institute of Leiria, Portugal
---  Rui Rijo (rui.rijo at ipleiria.pt) - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria,
Portugal

---------- Program Chair
---  Joseph Tan (tanjosep at mcmaster.ca), McMaster University, Canada


---------- Secretariat
         secretariat at hcist.eiswatch.org