2nd International Conference on Health Medical Systems and Services (HMSS 2026)

Dear Colleague,

🚨 Last Chance to Submit – Deadline: August 05, 2026

Are you shaping the future of smart, secure healthcare? Join global pioneers at the

The 2nd International Conference on

Health Medical Systems and Services (HMSS 2026)

📍 When & Where? 17–20 November 2026 | Barcelona, Spain

🌐 Explore More: https://hmss-conference.org

📝 Submission Portal: https://hmss-conference.org/authors.php

💡 From AI to cybersecurity, health and medical informatics, and digital health breakthroughs—HMSS 2026 is where innovation meets real-world impact.

🎓 IEEE-indexed (https://conferences.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/71742)

🚀 Submit your paper today and take part in redefining healthcare technology!
📧 Questions? Reach us at: info AT hmss-conference.org

Warm regards,
HMSS 2026 Organizing Committee

My source: SOCIOTECH List at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

LAST CALL 2nd AIxIA Summer School on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare!

[apologies for multiple postings]

A few last spots are still available for the school, taking place in Trento, Italy, on 13-17 July 2026.

The school is open to anyone interested in AI for Healthcare: Master and PhD students, researchers, clinicians, physicians, data scientists, AI engineers, and professionals working at the intersection of AI and healthcare.

Master and PhD students benefit from a reduced fee: 470 EUR.
The regular fee is 495 EUR.

This year’s edition will focus on:

• Medical Imaging
• Smart Hospitals
• Patient Trajectories

- with attention to concrete healthcare problems and to different AI research perspectives, including generative AI and neuro-symbolic AI.

More information:
https://lnkd.in/dEBmQ8Rr

Registration:
https://lnkd.in/dggvaMSP

Please share with anyone who may be interested!

#AI #DigitalHealth #Healthcare #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #NeuroSymbolicAI #MedicalImaging #SmartHospitals #PatientTrajectories #AIxIA

My source: francesco.calimeri, unical.it

1st Workshop on the Internet of Mirrors (IoM): Connected Intelligence for Healthcare, Beauty, and Immersive Digital Experiences

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite your technical papers submissions to our 1st Workshop on the Internet of Mirrors (IoM): Connected Intelligence for Healthcare, Beauty, and Immersive Digital Experiences, which will be held in IEEE WF-IoT 2026 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Workshop Focus

The Internet of Mirrors (IoM) is an emerging IoT ecosystem built around interconnected smart mirrors that can sense, process, communicate, and deliver personalised services across healthcare, beauty, wellness, assisted living, fitness, and immersive digital experiences.
Although the workshop is centred on the Internet of Mirrors, the realisation of this vision requires multi-domain expertise. As such, we are very keen to receive contributions not only from researchers directly working on IoM, but also from those developing the architectures, algorithms, communication technologies, computing frameworks, and application domains that will underpin future intelligent IoT ecosystems.

Topics of Interest

• Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:Edge, fog, and cloud computing for IoT systems
• Distributed intelligence and multi-agent AI
• AI-enabled IoT applications and personalised services
• Multimodal sensing, data fusion, and contextual awareness
• Intelligent task orchestration and adaptive resource allocation
• Wireless connectivity, 5G/6G, and network optimisation
• Privacy-preserving AI, security, interoperability, and trustworthy AI
• Human-computer interaction, accessibility, and inclusive smart interfaces
• Digital twins, immersive technologies, and metaverse-enabled experiences
• Internet of Sounds, Internet of Medical Things, and broader Internet of Everything ecosystems
• Smart healthcare, assisted living, wellness, fitness, beauty, and immersive digital lifestyle applications
• Proof-of-concept implementations, benchmarking, testbeds, and real-world IoT deployments

Important Dates 

• Paper submission deadline: 12 July 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: 30 August 2026

Workshop Chairs

• Lina Mohjazi, University of Glasgow, UK
• Luca Truchet, University of Trento, ITALY
• Ahmad Taha, University of Glasgow, UK
• Rabeb Mizouni, Khalifa University, UAE
• Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Glasgow, UK
• Haneen Fatima, University of Glasgow, UK

Information

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/wfiot2026-workshop-iom
Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34901&track=138858

Contact Emails:
l.mohjazi AT ieee.org
ahmad.taha AT glasgow.ac.uk

It would be wonderful if you could consider submitting relevant work, or share the call with colleagues and students who may be interested!
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Kind regards,
Dr Kubra Duran
Postdoctoral Fellow
Edinburgh Napier University, UK

My source: SOCIOTECH list - JISC

BGS Report "Smarter data, better care: Empowering care homes to use data to transform quality of care"

 

"The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) hosted an event in London in September 2023 on ideas and practice around a minimum dataset for care homes. This report, which is based on presentations at the event and the debate that followed, makes 12 recommendations for the effective implementation and delivery of a national minimum dataset that we believe policy-makers and regulators should consider."

Below, I have related the report's 12 recommendations to Hodges' model:

 Individual
  |

     INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

|

GROUP

my quality of life my quality of care care home residents research - how new Artificial Intelligence can be harnessed safely and ethically to extract optimum value^^ out of linked social care data

my quality of life my quality of care integration - a harmonised set of quality of life and quality of care indicators not just a process* (data gathering/entry) by care sector on behalf of others high-level of interoperability

resident's families (advocate) needs that cannot be met at home ^Government recognition of contribution of social care sector to society linking of information sources, preserving privacy but improving public's understanding of how such data can be used (benefits) combine learning from the DACHA study, evidence of the analytic power of data instruments like interRAI, and the lived experience of those working in our care sector

care home managers & frontline staff shared decision-making - commissioners, regulators and providers sector-wide conversation around the data that does and does not need to be known by different stakeholders Investment in a data-informed system for health care and social care - greater equity between the two^ sustained - longer term approach - reduce the data burden Government funding of dedicated in-home data coordinators - cost recognised from outset

4Ps in Hodges' model -

INTRA- INTERPERSONAL - purpose
SCIENCES - process
SOCIOLOGY - practice
POLITICAL - policy

^^Where does 'optimum value' lie in Hodges' model?
How are these reconciled?

Transforming the quality of care in care homes through better use of data.  https://www.bgs.org.uk/policy-and-media/transforming-the-quality-of-care-in-care-homes-through-better-use-of-data 

Nursing in the Digital Age survey

📢If you haven't yet completed our #Nursing in the Digital Age survey, please do and also share with your colleagues!

We would like to know how you use technology at your work and what effect it has had on workloads ⬇️https://t.co/Qxii5Pm7GY https://t.co/aYCbUsb8DF

— The Queen's Nursing Institute (@TheQNI) June 24, 2022

[and my source]

Nursing In the Digital Age 2022 (2) 

"Smart New World was published by the QNI in 2012 and again in 2016. Ten years later we think it is time to assess the level of progress and development in digital technology you use at work since the report was published. We are particularly interested in any effect (positive or negative) it has had on workloads. 

 We have created a survey to inform this work. It has 31 questions and should take around 8 minutes. Your contribution would be greatly appreciated. It contains no identifying information. Please address any queries to Alison Leary (alisonleary AT yahoo.com) or Dave Bushe dave.bushe AT qni.org.uk Thank you! SurveyMonkey is a third party provider. Please do not enter any patient identifiable or personal data other than your email address if you wish to share it with us at the end of the survey."

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NITDASoMe

ERCIM News No. 119 Special theme "Smart Things Everywhere"

Dear ERCIM News Reader,

ERCIM News 119

ERCIM News No. 119 has just been published at https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/

Smart applications in several domains, the technological aspects and security and quality issues are the focus of the special theme of this issue.

Guest editors: Margarete Hälker-Küsters (Fraunhofer AISEC) and Erwin Schoitsch (AIT)

This issue is also available for download in pdf and ePub.

Thank you for your interest in ERCIM News. Feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested.

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Special Theme: Educational Technology

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The next issue sounds very promising and I look f/w to receiving news of this and possibly reflecting on the content using Hodges' model. The 'Research and Innovation' section is always interesting as in this issue, even while the focus of #119 is as per the title. In addition on page 33:

"Case Case 2 – Smart Health Care: This use case employs the SEMIoTICS technologies to develop an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solution aimed at sustained independence and preserved quality of life for elders with mild cognitive impairment or mild Alzheimer’s dis-ease, with the overall goal of delaying institutionalisation: supporting both “aging in place” (individuals remain in the home of choice as long as possible) and “community care” (long-term care for people who are mentally ill, elderly, or disabled provided within the community rather than in hospitals or institutions)".

AI Governance & (Old) Chestnuts - When Healthcare is a Silo

individual

|

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

|

group - population

intelligence SMART bias safety explainability *(effect)?	artificielle [ ;-) ] V s E i R t T u I a C t A i L o    n    s Healthcare and Energy (Sectors) bias, safety, explainability unintended consequences ZERO emissions
"There are areas where we need to do the research before we know  what are the right kinds of  approaches to take". Sundai Pichai *(effect)?	REGULATION Governance Blanket vetting or Sector-by-Sector rules? anti-competitive privacy infringement Advertising* (cause) *(effect)? Google AI principles

Source:
Bradshaw, T. (2019) Google chief urges regulators not to rush into AI crackdown, FT Weekend, 21-22 September, p. 15.