6th Annual ICMCC Event
CALL FOR PAPERS

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 event@icmcc.org ,  mentioning "Event paper" in the subject line, and before February 1, 2009.

We would appreciate receiving notification of your intention to contribute to the conference. (event@icmcc.org)

For more detailed information please refer to the conference webpage http://2009.icmcc.org

Drs Lodewijk Bos, Event Chair
Prof. Bernd Blobel , Scientific Chair