Reviewing
| Submission type | Oral presentations, posters and Best PhD Paper submissions | Best Master Paper submissions |
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| Submission deadline | Feb 10, 2018 | Feb 10, 2018 |
| Reviewing | "Expert Reviewers": The editors will assign at least two expert reviewers to each paper. Expert reviewers will be selected from the eHealth2018 reviewers based on their expertise. | a) "Layman reviewers": The editors will assign each participant to be reviewer for two other student papers. “Layman reviews” can be shorter than expert reviews and will be weighted lower than expert reviews by the editors. b) "Expert Reviewers": The editors will assign at least two expert reviewers to each student paper. Expert reviewers will be selected from the eHealth2018 reviewers based on their expertise. |
| Preliminary acceptance notification | Preliminary acceptance notification until Mar 1, 2018 The editors will decide, which papers will be rejected and which papers will preliminarily be accepted as posters, oral presentations and best PhD / Master Student Award finalists. |
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| Revision / Rebuttal | Paper revision until Mar 10, 2018
Authors can choose how to proceed: No information concerning initial submission, reviewer comments, reviewer names, etc. will be published.
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Open paper revision, open rebuttal or (not open) withdrawal until Mar 10, 2018 Authors can choose how to proceed: 1. Revise their papers according to the reviewer comments and/or rebut improper reviewer comments. For finally accepted & rejected papers: The initial submission, all reviewer comments including reviewer names, rebuttals and revisions of the authors will be published. 2. Withdraw their submission. No information concerning the paper and the reviews will be published. |
| Final acceptance | Final acceptance by the editors until Mar 13, 2018 | |
| Publication | Publication in IOSPress Stud Health Technol Inform until May 8, 2018 | |
| Presentation | Presentation as poster, oral presentation or student award finalist (for PhD or Master submissions) at the eHealth2018 including discussion. | |
| Award winners | Final decision on the Best PhD Paper Award winner will be based on initial submission, revision, presentation and discussion. Awards will be presented at the eHealth2018 closing ceremony on May 9, 2018. |
Final decision on the Best Master Paper Award winner will be based on initial submission, revision, rebuttals, presentation and discussion. Awards will be presented at the eHealth2018 closing ceremony on May 9, 2018. |
Presentation
Please feel free to use the provided .PPT template (Room 1 -> 4:3, Room 3, 8, 9 -> 16:9). If this is not feasible, please at least include the eHealth2018 logo on every page in your presentation.
Presenters
You have 10 minutes for your presentation, plus around 5 minutes for the discussion. Please be in the conference room well before the start of the session and contact the session chairs as soon as you arrive.
The preferred presentation format for Room 1 is 4:3, the preferred presentation format for Rooms 3, 8, 9 is 16:9.
Your can either submit your presentation slides to office@dhealth.at before the conference, or you can bring it to the conference on a USB stick. If you use a USB stick, please transfer your presentation to the computer in your session's room no later than at the beginning of the break right before your session.
Please let us know if your presentation should NOT be published at our conference website in PDF format after the conference.
Please contact office@dhealth.at if you use any format other than ppt(x), pdf or Prezi for your presentation.
Posters
There will be two possibilities to present your poster:
1) A short presentation (e.g. 3-5 powerpoint slides) during Scientific Session 3 - Poster Pitch. No more than one short question will be allowed after this short presentation
2) Poster presentation and discussion after the Poster Pitch
ad 1) Please either send your presentation to office@dhealth.at before the conference or bring your presentation on a USB stick and transfer it to the computer in Room 8 no later than at the beginning of the coffee break prior to the Poster Pitch.
ad 2) Authors are responsible for designing and printing their posters themselves. There is not specific layout - you can choose your own design. Posters are limited to size A0 portrait format. Please bring your poster to the assigned poster space as soon as the conference starts. We advise you to attach DIN A4-copies of your paper to your poster, so that interested people can take a copy.
Publication
All accepted full papers (both oral presentation and posters) will be published "open access" by IOS Press in the Studies in Health Technologies and Informatics series. They will be indexed in PubMed and Web of Science, among others. Selected papers will be printed in a special issue of Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI).
All accepted papers will be indexed in ISI Web of Knowledge and PubMed.
Language
Papers must be written in English. Presentations of accepted papers will be held in English.
See exceptions for submissions to the Student Contest.
Paper length
The paper length is limited to 8 pages. Additional pages will be charged with € 100,- per extra-page.
See exceptions for submissions to the Student Contest.
Paper format
All papers - independent of the preferred presentation format - need to be formatted according to the IOS Press paper template and according to the authors instruction.
Paper Submission
Paper submission will be open until 2018-01-31.
Authors can declare their preferred presentation format (oral presentation or poster). Please be aware that the editors might change the presentation format, depending on the reviewers' evaluation.
Download the Call for Papers
Download the eHealth2018 Call for Papers
Paper Archive
All papers of previous eHealth conferences can be found here.