In many countries around the world, public healthcare is under severe economic and demographic stresses due to rapidly rising per capita costs and aging populations. Therefore, many governments are striving to improve the health of individuals and communities by strengthening their healthcare systems, and enhancing methods of disease detection and prevention. It is expected that advances in formation and communication technologies will play a pivotal role in the development of new sensing and imaging technologies for local and remote detection and possible prevention of diseases. In fact, these sensing and imaging systems will use the same fabrication technology that has enabled the drastic lowering of cost, exponential increase in complexity of electronic chips and widespread availability of computing and communication resources. Not only will these systems be suitable for Ubiquitous Health and Environment (smart homes, smart hospitals) applications, but they are also crucial to national development and poverty reduction. This symposium aims to bring together experts in engineering, communications, physical sciences, and health sciences as well as computer and computation specialists with the common goal of applying information and communication technologies for Ubiquitous-healthcare and Ubiquitous-environment systems and applications - two areas that are at the top of the agenda is most countries around the globe. Some of the topics to be covered by top specialists from around the globe include: Smarter homes, better healthcare Emerging ICT systems in U-health U-Health for aging Wearable and Implantable Wireless Sensors for U-health Medical electronics for better healthcare Advanced Si technologies for emerging applications in U-health Smarter planet Smart medical Centers&U-Hospitals Pervasive and ubiquitous Wireless Health Systems and Services Biomedical and biosensors engineering Body Sensor Networks Technology for Smart connected Health Security and Privacy for E-Health Nano Sensing for E-Health The Symposium will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative U-Health systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology related to U-healthcare & Smart Homes. Submitted papers must not be published or under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Authors should clearly identify how their considered topics relate to issues on Ubiquitous Healthcare Communication Systems, applications and services. Proposals describing an overall working system are particularly of interest.