Authors are invited to submit Full papers, Posters, Panels and Workshops proposals in English presenting original and un-published research. All submissions will be subject to a peer-review process by independent reviewers.

All submissions must be formatted according to the IOS Press style for Studies in Health Technology and Informatics https://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors and have to be submitted through the conference online system at https://access.online-registry.net/stc2021. The submission system will be available soon.

The Scientific Program Committee reserves the right to reject submissions that do not follow the IOS templates.

Full papers

Full papers should not exceed 5 pages. The full paper structure should be: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements and References. The Abstract length must not exceed 300 words.

Posters

Posters proposals should not exceed 2 pages. The Poster proposal structure should be the same as the one for full papers, but the Abstract could be omitted and proposed sections could be merged. In any case, Abstract length must not exceed 120 words.

Conference publication

Accepted full papers and posters will be published in the STC2021 proceedings by IOS Press as open access in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (https://www.iospress.nl/bookserie/studies-in-health-technology-and-informatics).

Workshops and Panels

Workshop and Panel submissions should not exceed 3 pages. The structure of the proposals should be: Title, Proposers, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Organization of the Panel/Workshop, Objectives, Program, Participants, Intended outcome. The presented material will be uploaded in the EFMI website, if requested.