Important Dates:

Registration: Feb. 21, 2009
Submission: Feb 27 March 10th, 2009, 11:59pm EST (extended)
Notification: March 27, 2009
Conference date: May 18, 2009

News

  • 01/30/09, Submission page ready
  • 01/21/09: Workshop website up

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About WiMD

The 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-grade Wireless Networks (WiMD 2009) will be co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Increasingly, hospitals adopt wireless technologies including WPAN-enabled PDA units, RFID wands, and wireless medical telemetry devices to improve the productivity of their staff members and quality of certain operations. However, using wireless technology in and around medical devices may affect the ability of the devices to function properly and the resultant safety of patients and operators, and lead to disastrous consequences. Wireless devices operating in adjacent frequency band may interfere with one another, and lead to poor quality of services. To address the grand challenges facing pervasive deployment of wireless devices in medical and healthcare systems, many research and engineering problems need to be resolved. Eventual working solutions involve efforts from hospital personnel, standard committees, federal agencies, IT industry and research community. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a high quality International forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss research findings and exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practices as well as to identify the emerging research topics, open problems, and define the future of wireless medical and healthcare systems.