For paper formatting instructions, please follow the guidelines included in the Springer's LNICST Author's Kit. A number of submissions relevant to the eHealth 2009 conference topics are welcomed from academia, industry, and healthcare organizations. The length of submitted articles varies according to the type of the paper:

Academic Papers

Standard Papers, not exceeding 8 pages, describe a mature piece of work, typically a finished project with available full results.

Short Papers, not exceeding 4 pages, describe an ongoing piece of research, typically at a work-in-progress stage, that can already demonstrate a promising research direction and show originality.

The best submission in terms of innovative solution, originality, and impact on global healthcare will be awarded the Best Paper Award.

PhD students should indicate their status when submitting their papers to be considered for the PhD Students Session and/or to become eligible for the Best Student Paper Award. The format requirements remain the same - up to 8 pages for a Standard Paper, up to 4 pages for a Short Paper.

Industry and Healthcare Organizations Papers

eHealth 2009 strongly encourages the participation of industrial companies, SMEs, national and global healthcare organizations, and medical charities. While all organizations are invited to submit Standard or Short academic papers, we recognize the time constraints on business partners and have therefore included a dedicated section for leading technologies, specific commercial products, successful healthcare business models, and IT systems in use by national or global healthcare organizations.

Papers up to 2 pages long should focus on the description and applications of technology, commercial potential, and/or real-world lessons with national or international deployment and usage.

Demonstration Papers

The Demonstration session is dedicated to enabling the active demonstration of successful projects or commercial products, and offers unique opportunities for networking, marketing, and hands-on experience.

Papers describing novel IT healthcare systems, innovative solutions, commercially exploitable project results, industrial products and working research project demos from all types of organizations are invited. Submissions, not exceeding 2 pages, should provide a description of the demonstrator with particular attention given to the state of the project or product and what exactly will be demonstrated at the conference.

Posters

Poster submissions should not exceed 500 words.

Publication of Accepted Papers

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings as well as in a number of digital and paper based ICST publications. The best papers will be considered for ICST's joint series with Springer: ICST Lecture Notes (LNICST).

Papers should be electronically submitted through the ASSYST system using the following instructions:

• Register for an ASSYST account. Upon registering, a username and a password will be emailed to you.
• Login using your new account.
• From the Main Menu Interface, click on 'Submit paper'.
• You will see the list of current conferences in ASSYST that are still open for submissions. Click on 'Submit a paper' next to 'eHealth 2009'.
• On the next screen, you will see the conference information and a link to submit your paper. Click on this link.
• Select the paper type you wish to submit.
• Enter the title, abstract and topic information for your paper, and then click 'Next'.
• On the next screen, verify the information you entered. If correct, click on 'Submit'. Use the Back button of your browser to go back to edit any of the details.
• On the same screen, click on 'Submit', next to Manuscript on the right side, to upload your paper.
• The next screen allows you to modify the details of your submission, add or remove authors, etc.
• Click on 'Browse' and find your document on the computer, then click 'Submit'.
• You will be taken back to the main page of your paper upload status. From here, you can upload an updated version of manuscript at any time.
• Once your paper has been reviewed and accepted, you will be able to upload your Camera-Ready version (after the Camera-Ready upload start date). You will be able to make updates to your Camera-Ready paper, until it is allowed by the conference.