After a short career in the arts, he received an M.A., and a short period as database application programmer, drs Lodewijk Bos entered the conference business in 1987 as assistant to the ESPRIT Conference organisor at the EC.
With his own company, MC-Consultancy he organised since 1989 a large number of IT related events all over Europe.
In 2003 he started the International Congress on Medical and Care Compunetics. In 2004 he was founder of the International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics, ICMCC.
Since 2006 Drs Lodewijk Bos is member of the Administrative Council of the WABT-ICET-UNESCO, charged with Strategic Planning and Programs.
Lodewijk Bos has his own blog on the ICMCC website.
Drs Lodewijk Bos is member of
- the advisory board of the Dutch diabetes web portal Mijn DVN;
- the IFMBE working Group on “Medical and Biological Engineering Contributions to the Safety and Security of Individuals and Society”;
- the NEN normcommissie “Informatievoorziening in de zorg”;
- the advisory board of the European Privacy Institute.
- He is co-editor of the series on Medical and Care Compunetics (IOSPress);
- He is series editor of “Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics” (Springer-Verlag).
Past engagements
Member of the editorial board of the Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare;
2009
Invited speaker at the World Health Care Congress Europe 2009, 13-14 May 2009, Brussels, Belgium.
Invited speaker at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, 7-12 September 2009, Munich, Germany.
Nominee WTN Ethics Award 2009.
Member of the Summit Advisory Council of the Interoperability Summit, June 1-2, 2009, Washington, USA.
Member of the advisory board of the World Health Care Congress Europe 2009, 13-14 May 2009, Brussels, Belgium
Member of the advisory board of the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress, 14-16 April 2009, Washington, USA
2008
Invited speaker at the XIII WABT General Conference, 16-18 October 2008, Fiuggi, Italy (cancelled)
Invited speaker PHSCG Conference, Chesford Grange, UK,
Member of the advisory board of the World Health Care Congress Europe 2008.
Member of the Programme Committee of the 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services.
2007
Invited speaker International Conference on Urban Health 2007, Baltimore, USA,
Member of the advisory board of the European Leadership Summit on Chronic Care 2007,
Member of the advisory board of the International Conference on Urban Health 2007,
Member of the advisory board of the WHCC Europe 2007,
Member of the advisory board of the international conference committee of the IV Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering (CLAIB2007)
2006
Track chair for Building Public Infrastructures via e-Networks of the The Eleventh International Workshop on Telework, August 28-31, 2006, Canada.
Member of the international programme committee of the BIOPoM 2006 Conference, June 29, 2006, UK.
Discussant on behalf of the World Bank for the presentation to the WHO of a report on the use of ICT in developing countries.
Co-editor of an IJMI special issue.
2005
Member of the High level Piloting Committee for the Virtuel Euro-Mediterranean Hospital (Algeria)
Member of the main jury for the Dutch National ICT Awards 2005.
Speeches
Click here for an overview of his speeches.
Publications
Articles
- Lodewijk Bos, Andy Marsh, Denis Carroll, Sanjeev Gupta, Mike Rees, Patient 2.0 Empowerment, 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, 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, Medical and Care Compunetics 4, L. Bos and B. Blobel (eds.), IOS Press, 2007 (PubMed)
- , WHO recommendation on record access (draft), 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, Medical and Care Compunetics 2, L. Bos et al (eds.), IOS Press, 2005 (PubMed)
- A. Marsh, S. Laxminarayan and L. Bos, Healthcare Compunetics, Medical and Care Compunetics 1, L. Bos et al (eds.), IOS Press, 2004 (PubMed)
Books
- Yogesan, K.; Bos, L.; Brett, P.; Gibbons, M.C. (Eds), Handbook of Digital Homecare, Springer, 2009
- L. Bos, B. Blobel, A. Marsh and D. Carroll (Eds), Medical and Care Compunetics 5, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 137, IOSPress, 2008
- L. Bos and B. Blobel (Eds), Medical and Care Compunetics 4, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 127, IOSPress, 2007
- L. Bos, L. Roa, K. Yogesan, B. O’Connell, A. Marsh and B. Blobel (Eds), Medical and Care Compunetics 3, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 121, IOSPress, 2006
- L. Bos, S. Laxminarayan and A. Marsh (Eds), Medical and Care Compunetics 2, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 114, IOSPress, 2005
- L. Bos, S. Laxminarayan and A. Marsh (Eds), Medical and Care Compunetics 1, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 103, IOSPress, 2004
