This book accompanies the fifth annual ICMCC Event.

ICMCC is becoming one of the leading information platforms for medical and care ICT. This is reflected in this year’s ICMCC event programme which includes even more examples of compunetics, the social, societal and ethical aspects of medical and care ICT. With a growing number of papers, authors come from almost all continents.

The 2008 ICMCC Event deals with the following subjects:

• National and Regional Projects;
• Aspects of Electronic Health Records;
• European Projects, organised by Artur Krukowski and Andy Marsh;
• Knowledge Management, organised by Rajeev Bali and Nilmini Wickramasinghe;
• Platforms;
• Behavioral compunetics, organised by Stephen Benton;
• Empowerment;
• Personal Health Paradigm Challenging Citizens and Patients, organised by Prof. Dr. Bernd Blobel from the eHealth Competence Center (University of Regensburg Medical Center, Germany) jointly with the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Working Groups “Electronic Health Records (EHR)” and “Security, Safety and Ethics (SSE)”.

Editors: Bos, Lodewijk; Blobel, Bernd; Marsh, Andrew J; Carroll, Denis
Publisher: IOSPress
ISBN: 978-1-58603-868-7

Purchase at: Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany

Table of contents:

National and Regional Projects

Telemedicine Endurance – Empowering Care Recipients in Asian Telemedicine Setup
Bhatia, Jagjit Singh, and Sagri Sharma (17-25)

The Patient’s Perspective in the Dutch National Technical Agreement on Telemedicine
Meijer, Wouter J. (26-33)

Electronic Health Records (EHR) in PROMED platform in accordance with the Romanian legislative framework
Antohi, Roxana et al (34-41)

Aspects of Electronic Health Records

Computer Generated Operation Notes
Currall, V A, and T J Chesser (51-55)

Personals Attitudes towards Robot Assisted Health Care – a pilot study in 111 respondents
Göransson, Ola et al (56-60)

Giving patients secure << google-like >> access to their medical record
Quantin, Catherine et al (61-67)

Improving outcomes with interoperable EHRs and secure global health information infrastructure
Kun, Luis et al (68-81)

European Projects

A Tele-Medicine Service over Satellite Network
Pliakas, Thomas et al (83-92)

An Assisted-Living Home Architecture with Integrated Healthcare Services for Elderly People
Marsh, Andrew J et al (93-105)

Knowledge Management

Functional and Technological Description of a Real-Time Data Management System for Telehealthcare
Fernández, Fabiola et al (107-115)

Validating a Knowledge Transfer Framework in Health Services
Orendorff, Doug et al (116-129)

Knowledge Management Model for Teleconsulting in Telemedicine
Pico, Lilia Edith Aparicio et al (130-140)

InWiM: Knowledge Management for Insurance Medicine
Bleuer, Juerg P. et al (141-146)

Realising the Knowledge Spiral in Healthcare: the role of Data Mining and Knowledge Management
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini et al (147-161)

Platforms

Improving Healthcare Services using Web Based Platform for Management of Medical Case Studies
Ogescu, Cristina et al (165-171)

Design and Development of a Knowledge driven Web based ECG Data monitoring and Diagnostic Tool in Lab-view
Singh, H.R., and Manju Singh (172-180)

Improving Healthcare Middleware Standards with Semantic methods and technologies
Román, Isabel et al (181-189)

Intelligent information system for treatment response monitoring and prognosis establishment on genital neoplasia patients
Plaisanu, Claudiu et al (190-195)

Behavioural Compunetics

The Safe Implementation of Research into Healthcare Practice
Manning, Bryan, and Stephen Benton (199-209)

Finding the service you need: Human centered design of a Digital Interactive Social Chart in DEMentia care (DEM-DISC)
Roest, H. G. van der et al (210-224)

The Doctor-Manager Relationship: A Behavioural Barrier to Effective Health Care?
Taylor, Heather, and Stephen Benton (225-240)

The Transition from ‘Informed Patient’ Care to ‘Patient Informed’ Care
Gardiner, Ruth (241-256)

Active Ageing: Independence through Technology Assisted Health Optimisation
Manning, Bryan et al (257-261)

Empowerment

Populomics
Gibbons, M Chris (265-268)

Virtual Health Platform for Medical Tourism Purposes
Martinez, Debora et al (269-274)

Access and Privacy Rights Using Web Security Standards to Increase Patient Empowerment
Falcão-Reis, Filipa et al (275-285)

Immunizations: The First Step in a Personal Health Record to Empower Patients
Popovich, Michael L. et al (286-295)

Publication only

Intelligent Device Management in the Selfcare Marketplace
Biniaris, Christos G., and Andrew J Marsh (299-309)

Ethical Issues of Brain Functional Imaging: Reading your Mind
Karanasiou, Irene S. et al (310-320)

Social Prospecting
Marsh, Andrew J et al (321-327)

Experimental Study of Fuzzy – Rule Based Management of Tropical Diseases: Case of Malaria Diagnosis
Obot, Okure U., and Faith-Michael Uzoka (328-339)

Social Network of PESCA (Open Source Platform for eHealth)
Sanchez, Carlos L. et al (340-345)

The Need for the Use of XACML Access Control Policy in a Distributed EHR and Some Performance Considerations
Sucurovic, Snezana, and Veljko Milutinovic (346-351)

European Federation of Medical Informatics

Architectural Approaches to Health Information Systems for Empowering the Subject of Care
Blobel, Bernd, and Peter Pharow (355-366)

Requirements for User-Friendly Personal Health Information Systems
Nykänen, Pirkko (367-372)

Changes in Doctor-Patient Relationships for Realizing the Personal Health Paradigm
Grain, Heather (373-378)

Finland’s strategy and implementation of citizens’ access to health information
Ruotsalainen, Pekka et al (379-385)

How can the German Electronic Health Card support patient’s role in care management
Pharow, Peter et al (386-401)