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IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering
Special Issue on Advanced Sensing, Systems Modeling, and Ergonomics for Smart and Connected Health

IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, in collaboration with the IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, invites researchers, clinicians, scientists and engineers to submit their innovative research papers on topics related to smart and connected health. This special issue will bring together outstanding research in sensing, system modeling, ergonomics, information technology, statistics, data analytics, operations research, systems engineering, and social science to address problems such as: (1) developing new generations of health technologies, (2) identifying patient risks, (3) improving healthcare outcomes, (4) enabling better clinical processes, (5) optimizing clinical decision making, and (6) providing information to enhance patient safety and quality.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
Clinical decision modeling
Machine learning with health-related data
Multi-scale modeling
Behavior and decision analysis
Agent-based modeling
Sensor-based modeling and analysis
Healthcare and ergonomic improvement
Care-delivery processes
Medical decision making
Protocol adherence

All papers should be submitted through the journal's ScholarOne online submission website at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/uhse. During the online submission process, please use the appropriate prompt to indicate that a submission is for this special issue.
Please find details on submissions in the CFP attached.

Timeline:
Optional Letter of Intent                         September 15, 2017
Submission of Manuscripts Due            December 31, 2017
Notification of First Review Decision     March 15, 2018
Final Revision                                         April 30, 2018
Final Paper Acceptance Decision          June 30, 2018
Expected Publication                             Fall 2018

Guest Editors:
For any questions about this special issue, including questions about the relevance or suitability of a planned submission, please contact one of the Special Issue Editors below.

W. Art Chaovalitwongse, University of Arkansas, artchao@uark.edu
Geb W. Thomas, University of Iowa, gthomas@iowa.uiowa.edu
Hui Yang, Pennsylvania State University, huy25@psu.edu

Shengfan Zhang, University of Arkansas, shengfan@uark.edu

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Shengfan Zhang
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville AR
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