Using knowledge to create knowledge is the major concept of the emerging knowledge society. This way, knowledge becomes sustainable and a tool to realize the millennium goals. But to achieve this in the most effective way, we will have to make inventories of knowledge.
ICMCC (International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics) is an international foundation operating as the knowledge centre for medical and care compunetics (COMPUting & Networking, its EThICs and Social/societal implications), 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.
Knowledge is derived from the synthesis between information and experience. ICMCC is becoming the global guiding platform in bringing information and experience related to medical and care compunetics together, thus creating the necessary inventories of knowledge. As we are aiming at both the patient/citizen and the professional we also target and facilitate the shifting relationship between the two.
Peter Waegemann, Vice President of mHealth Initiative Inc. USA
Prof. PD Dr Bernd Blobel, Associate Professor, Head eHealth Competence Center University of Regensburg Medical Center, Germany
Drs Lodewijk Bos, President ICMCC, The Netherlands
Swamy Laxminarayan Lecture
Prof. Dr. Andy Marsh, Vice-president ICMCC, VMWSolutions, UK
ICMCC provides an up-to-date overview of news and science articles related to medical and care compunetics.
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ICMCC organizes yearly events since 2004. For more information about these events and an overview of the presentations, as well as related events.
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ICMCC presents the first international portal to information on patients and the public accessing their own electronic health records.
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Newsletter 15 has been published
(19 November 2009)
New ICMCC Science Pages
7 March 2010
We are happy to announce the new ICMCC Science Pages.
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ICMCC 2010 News
17 November 2009
Details about the ICMCC Event 2010 Programme will be announced early March.
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Handbook of Digital Homecare
Yogesan, K.; Bos, L.; Brett, P.; Gibbons, M.C. (eds)
Springer, 2009
Medical and Care Compunetics 5
Lodewijk Bos; Bernd Blobel; Andrew Marsh; Denis Carroll (eds)
Series on Health Information Technologies 137, IOSPress, 2008
Lodewijk Bos, Andy Marsh, Denis Carroll, Sanjeev Gupta, Mike Rees,
Patient 2.0 Empowerment
in: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web & Web Services SWWS08, Hamid R. Arabnia, Andy Marsh (eds), pp.164-167, 2008
Lodewijk Bos, Denis Carroll, Andy Marsh,
The Impatient Patient,
in: Medical and Care Compunetics 5, L. Bos et al (eds), IOS Press 2008 (PubMed)
Lodewijk Bos,
Medical and Care Compunetics - the Future of Patient-Related Care,
in: Medical and Care Compunetics 4, L. Bos and B. Blobel (eds.), IOS Press, 2007 (PubMed)
Brian Fisher, Richard Fitton, Lodewijk Bos,
WHO recommendation on record access (draft),
in: Medical and Care Compunetics 4, L. Bos and B. Blobel (eds.), IOS Press, 2007 (PubMed)
Thierry Chaussalet and Lodewijk Bos,
The ICMCC second conference on "Medical and Care Compunetics"
, in: IJMI, Volume 75, Issue 9, September 2006, Pages vii-viii (PubMed)
Lodewijk Bos, Swamy Laxminarayan and Andy Marsh,
The Information Paradigm,
in: Medical and Care Compunetics 2, L. Bos et al (eds.), IOS Press, 2005 (PubMed)
A. Marsh, S. Laxminarayan and L. Bos,
Healthcare Compunetics,
in: Medical and Care Compunetics 1, L. Bos et al (eds.), IOS Press, 2004 (PubMed)
Conceptual Changes: Data in a Cleaninghouse
We thought it would be all over. And as was published today, it isn’t, we still dump paper medical records. We thought we would stop loosing records in the mail or grabbing the wrong pile of documents. Not so. There are still many, too many places where records are kept physically, on paper, in cupboards.
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Observations 3 February 2010: Questions
I come across hundreds of news items a day when selecting the ones that should be posted on the ICMCC Newspage. And sometimes these articles raise questions.
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Guest: If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care
Back in September, Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal wrote a terrific (fact-based!) send-up of our archaic, arcane, not-customer-centric healthcare system, titled “If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care.” I wish I’d known about it then, but I only learned of it recently, because a couple called “The New Altons” have made a great home-brew video of it, and posted it in YouTube.
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