Wireless access for pervasive healthcare is an emerging cross-disciplinary subject, focusing on the research and developments of pervasive and ubiquitous wireless technologies in order to improve the quality of healthcare and wellness. With the recent advances in hardware design and wireless communications, the evolution of new generations of embedded wireless devices, which facilitates reliable, comprehensive, and high-standard healthcare, has attracted intensive attention from both industries and academic institutes. Particularly, developments in wireless infrastructure, such as body-area networks or pervasive health-monitoring system, have proved beneficial to deliver telemedicine services regardless of a patient physical location. However, there still exist many challenges to overcome before the real marketing stage due to requirements for reliable signal propagation characteristics, low network latency, low packet loss, robust data and image transmission, and the great need for safe, secure, and dependable operation. In addition, cost issue is another key concern for worldwide utilization of wireless devices for pervasive healthcare.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together both the industry and academia to present and discuss the problems, challenges, directions, and state-of-art in the fields of wireless access for pervasive healthcare. The workshop will try to build a bridge between the industry and academic research so that future collaborations between two sectors can be identified. In addition, we welcome demos of state-of-the-art products.

All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.