In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2027), March 8-12, 2027.

"HHuman-Centered e-Health Ecosystems: Bridging Technological Evolution and Healthcare Inclusivityuman-Centered Telemedicine and e-Health"

Call for papers

Telemedicine and e-Health architectures constitute a critical mechanism for the advancement of healthcare delivery, directly addressing systemic requirements for inclusivity and patient well-being within an increasingly digitized society. By mitigating geographical disparities between clinical practitioners and healthcare facilities, remote medicine enhances patient quality of life and establishes a more equitable healthcare framework. This technological paradigm supports geriatric demographics, patients with chronic pathologies, and individuals residing in isolated regions. These populations are traditionally marginalized by their distance from primary medical centers; thus, the deployment of targeted digital health methodologies effectively circumvents the logistical and socioeconomic barriers that obstruct access to essential clinical treatments, primary care, and long-term therapies. To maximize the efficacy of these digital interventions, a human-centered design methodology must integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into clinical workflows. This approach ensures that technological applications are precisely calibrated to user perspectives, seamlessly accommodating both patient experiences and clinical staff requirements. Consequently, contemporary research must transition to bridge emerging computational domains, including Affective Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Large Language Models, with established frameworks such as Pervasive Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), embedded hardware, and advanced Telecommunications networking, prioritizing user-centric parameters during the design, architecture, and system-wide deployment of next-generation e-Health ecosystems.

The TELMED Workshop will investigate the design, realisation and assessment of innovative computing, networking, and communication technologies as enablerspi to improve and sustain the access to various medical services all supporting and promoting a more inclusive remote health care. These technologies coupled or embedded in medical protocols or devices can answer these new challenges, stimulating the introduction of new products, systems, devices, and tools for ensuring a continuous, efficient, effective, and inclusive health monitoring and medical assistance, both supporting patients at their home, including those living in remote areas, and citizens accessing primary care, also fostering new medical capabilities in hospitals.

Authors of academia and industry are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing forefront research and development in the area of Telemedicine and e-Health with a particular focus on, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Technologies and applications in support of medical services: field trials, solutions, systems, models, applications in support of medical services to ensure the access to medical or primary cares promoting the inclusiveness of all the citizens, in particular of weaker and disadvantaged categories (elderly people, pregnancies and infants, minorities, poor and marginalized people, people living in remote areas, non-digital literate people), and also to reduce hospitalization.
• Technologies and applications enabling remote medical monitoring and tutoring: Telemedicine and e-Health to support critical and chronic patients. Telediagnosis solutions.
• Telecommunications and Networking technologies in support to Telemedicine and e-Health , also including implanted, ingestible and bionano devices communication.
• Advanced data elaboration techniques: Artificial Intelligence, Data Fusion, Electronic Patient Record systems and context elaboration in Telemedicine and e-Health.
• Standardization of Body Area Networks .
• Security and privacy issues in Telemedicine and e-Health.

Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration. No registration for workshop only is available. Papers without a valid full registration that are not presented in-person will be excluded from the proceedings.
Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) and in Scopus Database.