The gDigiHealth.KEE Conference is the Annual Global Academy for Digital Health Conference that is envisioned to become a global forum for knowledge exchange of the state-of-the-art research and development in digital health technologies, and for enabling and empowering stakeholders engaged in enriching and enhancing the patient healthcare journey.

The 2024 gDigiHealth.KEE conference is jointly organized by the Global Academy for Digital Health, UK, and Al Ain University, United Arab Emirates.

The 2024 gDigiHealth.KEE Conference is jointly organized by the Global Academy for Digital Health, UK, and Al Ain University, United Arab Emirates.

Global Academy for Digital Health (GA4DH) defines Digital Health as "the employment of digital technologies to enable and empower healthcare providers, whether people or organizations, to deliver innovative solutions to enrich and enhance the patient healthcare journey". The gDigiHealth.KEE conference is inspired by GA4DH's mission, and accordingly, the conference is aimed at contributing to reducing the healthcare divide amongst nations and people through the employment of digital health technologies.

The 2024 gDigiHealth.KEE Conference seeks to attract distictive submissions of research papers, doctoral research proposals, and workshops/tutorial proposals in various digital health research and development areas. In particualr, the 2024 gDigiHealth.KEE Conference is aimed at addressing unmet needs of digital healthcare strategy and policymakers, and providing accessibility to next generation novel digital healthcare research and development output in the following areas:

• AI and the Patient Journey
• Digital Pathology Technologies Frameworks, Processes, and Technologies
• Radiomics Methods, Processes and Technologies
• Epigenetics digital processes, methods, and frameworks
• Smart Hospital Frameworks
• Digital Health Standards
• Quality of Life (QoL) Modelling for NCDs
• Data Analytics Methods and Approaches to Digital Healthcare
• Digital Healthcare Frameworks for Caring for People with Disabilities
• Telemedicine & Intelligent Digital Platforms
• Robotics-enabled Surgery
• Clinical Cancer Informatics
• Digital Tumor Boards, Methods and Technologies
• Digital Health Knowledge Management, Methods, and Technologies
• Healthcare Quality Governance and Change Management with Digital Health
• Information Strategy & Architecture for Digital Health
• Process architectural frameworks for Digital Health
• Legal, Social, Ethical, and Professional (LSEP) for Digital Health

Conference Digital Health Exhibition

Selected key leading leading international digital health technology providers are being appointed to run an introduction of their innovation in plenary sessions and demonstrate their key digital health technologies products in the state of the art 2024 gDigiHealth.KEE Conference Exhibition. Interested leading digital health technology providers can visit the conference Corporate Sponsorship Packages Section.

Conference Publications

(Proceedings & Shortlisted Papers for Journals)

• All accepted papers will be published with dedicated ISBN for the gDigiHealth.KEE annual conference proceeding books.
• Shortlisted papers will be selected to be extended for submission to publishing in targeted impactful healthcare journals in relation to the conference KEE digital health-specific areas.

Proposals and Research Papers' Submission

Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates). All papers should be in PDF format and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed 8 pages (including all figures, tables, and references). Submitted papers must present original, unpublished research not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review.

Submission of papers can now be found here (Conference Submission System)

• The gDigiHealth.KEE Conference Doctoral Consortium

  The Doctoral Consortium of the gDigiHealth.KEE conference has been established to become a regular annual forum for candidate Ph.D. students and researchers who are about or in their early stages of planning or undertaking their Ph.D. research journey in digital health. Ph.D. research proposals are encouraged to submit in the areas of the conference 'CALL FOR PAPERS’ Section, but are not necessarily limited to these, as long as they fit the focus of digital health research. Submitted Ph.D. research proposals will be reviewed by experienced professors and faculty members who have been engaged in Ph.D. research supervision for many years. Accepted Ph.D. research proposals will be invited to present their research proposals to receive feedback during the conference run from different stakeholders involved in digital health research and are attending the conference. This is anticipated to provide a great and distinctive opportunity for such candidate Ph.D. research students to meet and discuss their research ideas, methods, plans, etc., with researchers with different levels of expertise in related disciplines. Accepted Ph.D. research proposals will be published as extended abstracts in the gDigiHealth conference proceedings.

  During the gDigiHealth conference, the Doctoral Consortium will run in two sessions. In the first session, candidate Ph.D. research students will showcase their accepted research proposals in public. Then, in the second session, they will have the opportunity to receive feedback from the designated Ph.D. consortium committee, meet key researchers interested in their research in digital health, engage with other Ph.D. researchers, and develop networking in their designated areas of research interests.

  Each submission will be reviewed by at least two senior research academics in the designated field of the submitted Ph.D. research proposal. Accepted proposals will be required to join the gDigiHealth Doctoral Consortium and pay the registration fees of the gDigiHealth.KEE  2024 main conference, but only paying student registration fees.

  Call for Submission

  Candidate or current Ph.D. research students will need to submit, to the gDigiHealth Ph.D. Consortium, a maximum of 6-pages proposal about their doctoral research work using the gDigiHealth.KEE  2024 Conference Submission System found here

  The Ph.D. Research Proposal should include the following:

  • Title of the Ph.D. research work,
  • Name of the Ph.D. student, affiliated organisations, and contact details (with email address),
  • Research supervisory team, affiliated organisations, and contact details (email address),
  • The research aims, objectives, hypotheses, and research questions,
  • Research gap analysis, alluding to the anticipated significant novel contributions to knowledge reflecting on extending existing or current research in progress,
  • The research methodology and research framework design,
  • The integrated research evaluation framework and research case studies,
  • Research plan,
  • Work in progress and key outcomes attained,
  • Acknowledgments of possible contributions and support of industrial and academic partners.

  The deadline for doctoral proposal submission is February 15, 2024.

  Selected submissions, with further possible extensions and revisions, will be published in the gDigiHealth.KEE conference main proceeding book as extended abstracts.

• Call for Workshops/Tutorials

  The organizing committee of the gDigiHealth.KEE  2024 conference cordially invites workshop and tutorial proposals in relation to critical research areas in digital health not explicitly mentioned in the conference call for research papers. Prospective workshops/tutorials organizers should write fit-for-purpose proposals and submit to the conference organizers via the email: info@ga4dh.org, which will be directed to the gDigiHealth.KEE  2024 Conference Workshop Chairs for review. Please follow the following structure when you prepare your proposals:

  * Title of the workshop/tutorial (Full name and abbreviation).

  * Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference.

  * Short bio of the key organizers and their experience running workshops/tutorials.

  * A tentative list of workshop/tutorial program committee members.

  * The expected length of the workshop (3-hours, half-day or full-day)

  Prospective workshops/tutorials should avoid significant topic overlap with main conference research papers tracks. Approved workshops/tutorials proposals should strictly follow the gDigiHealth.KEE conference published Key Dates, particularly the paper status notification and camera-ready dates for workshops. Workshops papers’ submission deadline can be later than the main conference research papers’ submission, with sufficient time, for example 4-6 weeks or more, for generating high-quality peer reviews.

  Call for Workshop/Tutorial Proposals
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  Suggested Proposals Submission Deadline: 03/01/2024
  Suggested Proposals' Acceptance Notification: 15/01/2024

Plagiarism Policy & Publication Ethics

gDigiHealth.KEE does not accept plagiarism in submitted research papers, workshop/tutorial proposals, and doctoral consortium proposals. All submissions to the gDigiHealth.KEE Conference will undergo plagiarism check, and suspected submissions will be assessed by the technical programme committee chairs to proceed for peer review or immediate rejection.

Key Conference Dates

Conference Committees

• Co-General Chairs

  Mohammed Odeh	Global Academy for Digital Health, UK
  Ghaleb Al-Refai	Al Ain University, UAE

• Technical Programme Co-Chairs

  Faten Kharbat	Al Ain University, UAE
  Rana Dajani	Robert Bosch Academy, Germany

• Conference Advisory Board

  Ismael Matalqah	President Ras Al Khaimah Medical and Health Sciences University, UAE
  Hatem HerzAllah	Ex-Chief Eastern Region Prevention & Control, Medical Network Services (now John Hopkins), Saudi Aramco, KSA
  Nazih Mallat	Vice President for Quality Assurance, Al Ain University, UAE
  Haythem Bany Salameh	Dean of Scientific Research and Graduate Studies, Al Ain University, UAE
  AbdulSalam Al Saleh	Consultant Neurologist and Neurophysiologist, NHS, UK
  Wael Kafienah	Regenerative Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
  Abdullah KARADAĞ	Life Science VP, TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Turkey
  Bassam Hijawii	Public Health Advisor, Jordan Center for Disease Control, Epidemiologist, Jordan
  Sami Khatib	Consultant Clinical Oncologist and Early Detection, President of Arab Medical Association Against Cancer, Jordan

• Steering Committee

  Founding Members

  Mohammed Odeh	Global Academy for Digital Health, UK
  Faten Kharbat	Al Ain University, UAE

  Invited Members 2024 Run

  Ismael Matalqah	Ras Al Khaimah Medical and Health Sciences University, UAE
  Ibtehal Aburezeq	Al Ain University, UAE
  Amer Qasim	Al Ain University, UAE

• Workshops and Tutorial Chairs

  Dina Tbaishat	Zayed University, UAE
  Yazeed Ghadi	Al Ain University, UAE
  Heba Saadeh	University of Jordan, Jordan

• Ph.D. Consortium Chairs

  Huseyin Seker	Birmingham City University, UK
  Omer Rana	Cardiff University, UK
  Nasser Al-Shanti	Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
  Qutaibah Al Thebyan	Al Ain University, UAE

• General Administration Committee

  Reema Abu Al-Rub	Global Academy for Digital Health, Bristol, UK
  Rand Al-Shafie	Global Academy for Digital Health, Bristol, UK
  Lama Taha	Taha IP, Jordan

• Local Organising Committee

  Yazan Al Ahmed	Al Ain University, UAE
  Omar Najim	Al Ain University, UAE
  Lina Chehayber	Al Ain University, UAE
  Esraa Hijah	Al Ain University, UAE
  Esra Alnashash	Al Ain University, UAE
  Huda Alheeh	Al Ain University, UAE

• Programme Tracks Committee

  Abdullah KARADAĞ	TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Turkey
  AbdulRahman Odeh	Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust,UK
  Ali Al-Gharbali	University of Ottawa, Canada
  Anwar Rjoop	University Hospital, University of Science and Technology, Jordan
  Basam Hammo	Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
  Dina Tbaishat	Zayed University, UAE
  Faris Al-Dahiyat	Al Ain University, UAE
  Heba Saadeh	University of Jordan, Jordan
  Huseyin Seker	Birmingham City University, UK
  Jamil Razmak	Al Ain University, UAE
  Is'haq Uri	Southmead Hospital, NHS, UK
  Issam Al-Azzoni	Al Ain University, UAE
  Lina Al-Qatawneh	The University of Jordan, Jordan
  Loay Abudalu	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK
  Ma'n Zawati	McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  Mahmoud Al Balas	Hashemite University, Jordan
  Mario Kossmann	Lilium, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
  Mehmet Aydin	University of the West of England, UK
  Mohammad Ghattas	Al Ain University, UAE
  Nasser Al-Shanti	Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
  Nour Al-dain Marzouka	Khalifa University, UAE
  Omer Rana	Cardiff University, UK
  Rana Yousef	University of Jordan, Jordan
  Rana Dajani	Robert Bosch Academy, Germany
  Saqib Iqbal	Al Ain University, UAE
  Thalia Arwai	American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  Wael Kafienah	Bristol University, UK
  Yazeed Ghadi	Al Ain University, UAE
  Yousra Odeh	Applied Sciences University, Jordan

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