Special Session Info
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Giancarlo FortinoUniversity of Calabria, Italy
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Hadeel AlsolaiPrincess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia
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TPC members to be defined.
Technical Program Committee: TPC members are to be defined. The list will be published as soon as the committee is finalized.
Call for Papers
The rapid proliferation of IoT-enabled healthcare devices, wearable technologies, and smart city infrastructures has generated unprecedented opportunities for personalized, continuous, and real-time healthcare delivery. Nevertheless, the effective integration of these technologies remains constrained by limited interoperability among heterogeneous systems, fragmented data silos, and escalating concerns related to cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory compliance. These challenges hinder the development of cohesive and scalable smart healthcare ecosystems.
This special session introduces the SHIFT (Smart Healthcare Integration Framework for Friendly Technologies) concept, which seeks to advance cutting-edge methodologies for integrating diverse healthcare technologies into a unified, secure, and user-centered ecosystem. The session will highlight recent innovations in medical device evolution and their seamless integration with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and advanced computing paradigms, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), serverless architectures, and Digital Twins (DT). Emphasis will be placed on interoperability standards, secure data transmission mechanisms, scalable cloud–edge infrastructures, and context-aware analytics.
Furthermore, discussions will address user-centered design principles, accessibility considerations, ethical implications, and regulatory frameworks to ensure inclusive and responsible healthcare innovation. By fostering multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers and practitioners, this session aims to explore emerging solutions and future research directions toward resilient, interoperable, and human-centric smart healthcare systems.
Topics of Interest
The topics include (but are not limited to):
Types of Submissions
The Special Session welcomes high-quality, original research contributions that advance the scientific and technological foundations of the smart world. All submissions must use the official IEEE conference paper template. Authors are invited to submit their work in one of the following categories:
Full Papers
6 pagesComplete research studies containing significant findings, rigorous methodology, and comprehensive experimental or theoretical results.
Short Papers
4 pagesConcise contributions reporting promising early results, innovative ideas, or ongoing work that is expected to stimulate discussion and further development.
Poster & Demo Papers
2 pagesVisual or interactive presentations showcasing prototypes, systems, applications, or early research results that highlight practical innovations and emerging technologies.
Important: A submission can have at most 2 additional pages with the pages overlength charge, if accepted.
Publication and Indexing
All accepted and presented papers will be considered for the conference proceedings and indexing in major repositories.
IEEE Xplore
Submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Major Databases
Indexed in Elsevier, IET, and Scopus.
Note: For a paper to remain eligible for publication, it must be presented in person (unless otherwise specified). At least one author must register for the conference and deliver the presentation.
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