This book accompanies the fourth annual ICMCC Event.

In the past 12 months the role of ICMCC with regards to patient-related ICT has become obvious with the start of the Record Access Portal. It is our goal to come forward with a recommendation to the WHO on Record Access. This recommendation will therefore be one of the leading issues of the Round Table on the Responsibility Shift from Doctor to Patient.

The 2007 ICMCC Event deals with the following subjects:

• EHR and Record Access;

• Digital Homecare;

• Behavioral compunetics;

• The Paradigm Change Challenge towards Personal Health.

This last session has been organized 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)”.

Due to personal circumstances this book has really been a group effort and I therefore would like to thank by name all members of the scientific board: Bernd Blobel, Denis Carroll, Brian Fisher, Richard Fitton, Chris Flim, Hermie Hermens, Peter Pharow, Denis Protti, Laura Roa and Kanagasingam Yogesan.

On behalf of the ICMCC Foundation board I wish to thank the STC, PAERS, IFMBE and the WABT-ICET-UNESCO for their support to make this conference possible.

Finally I would like to thank all the authors who have contributed to making the fourth ICMCC Event into an interesting and challenging conference.

Lodewijk Bos, Event chair