Preface
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)”.
I would like to thank all the members of the scientific board for their work in preparing this event and especially Denis Carroll, Andy Marsh and Bernd Blobel.
On behalf of the ICMCC Foundation board I wish to thank the University of Westminster Business School for hosting this conference.
I also would like to thank the UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR),theBritish Computer Society (the HIISCG and the Sociotechnical Group), the IFMBE and the BIOPoM for supporting our event.
Finally I would like to thank all the authors who have contributed to making the fifth ICMCC Event into an interesting and challenging conference.
Lodewijk Bos, Event chair