Call for Papers for the ICMCC Event 2009

ICMCC (International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics)1-3 June, 2009 Psychology Business School, University of Westminster, London, UK
Dealing with medical and care compunetics, the field of social, societal and ethical implications of computing and networking, ICMCC decided to focus the 2009 Event on Patient 2.0 Empowerment, more specific on Electronic Health Records (EHR) and secondarily, the connection between EHR and Digital Homecare.

In a recently published paper, we defined Patient 2.0 Empowerment as: "The active participation of the citizen in his or her health and care pathway with the interactive use of Information and Communication Technologies."

Main subjects for the call for papers are:

  • EHR and Knowledge Management
  • Social aspects of EHR
  • Ethical aspects of EHR
  • EHR and digital homecare
  • Future of EHR (visionary)

Deadline submission of full event papers: 1 February, 2009

Notification of acceptance: 2 March, 2009

Deadline submission of final paper version: 29 March, 2009

Event registration open: 2 March, 2009

ICMCC Event 2009: 1-3 June, 2009

Authors are encouraged to focus their contributions from a patient's perspective.

Accepted papers will be published in "Medical and Care Compunetics 6" (IOS Press - "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics"), available at the conference.

Papers can be sent as mail attachments to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. mentioning "Event paper" in the subject line before February 1, 2009.

For further information, please visit:
http://2009.icmcc.org

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About ICMCC
ICMCC (International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics) is an international foundation operating as the knowledge centre for medical and care compunetics, making information on medicine and care available to patients using compunetics as well as distributing information on the use of compunetics in medicine and care to patients and professionals. For further information, visit www.icmcc.org.

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