ICMCC (International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics) planned to publish a book on Digital Home Care by early 2009. This book will cover all aspects of Digital Homecare, e. g. technologies; clinical applications; social, ethical and legal aspects; and future trends. It is certainly one of the important and fast growing areas in the fields of medicine. Springer Verlag, one of the leading publishers in the world has agreed to publish the book.
Digital homecare can be defined as the use of information and communication technologies to enable delivery and management of health care services at home. Due to various needs digital home care is becoming part of main stream health care delivery in most of the countries:
- Patients are being discharged from hospitals early and often require additional health care services and monitoring of their health status.
- Preference for Point of care
- Increase of chronic disease such diabetics
- Increased aged population
Book Aims
This book aims to report the state-of-art developments, research and successful clinical/trial outcomes of digital homecare. It will also cover the ethical, social and legal issues related to remote homecare delivery. The book encourages high quality chapters from all aspects of digital home care.
Scopes of Interest (not limited to):
- General Issues
Need, standards, patient-related issues, data/information-related issues, benefits. - Digital Homecare for whom?
Specific issue on various target groups, e.g. chronic patients, disabled, elderly. - Social, Legal and ethical aspects
Including rural and urban issues, privacy, security. - Clinical and Research application
E.g. diabetes, thrombosis, asthma, cancer, hypertension, renal. - Technologies - Devices and ICT
Diagnostics, monitoring, wearables - Digital Homecare Experiences
Clinicians, patients, nurses, providers - Digital Homecare, the Future
Emerging Trends: Bio sensors, Medication of the future, Virtual Care service, Virtual homes, Personalized Care and Enabling Technology
Submissions
Two-stage submission:
- First, interested researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a chapter proposal clearly stating your focused domain problems and contributions related to one of the above topics due on May 15, 2008;
- Second, authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 1, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are due by August 29, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published in early 2009 by Springer.
Proposal Guidelines
The proposal is expected of one page in .doc or .pdf format, composed of title, authors (name, affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address), extended abstract (background, related work, principal contributions, and so on), table of content, and contact.
Enquiries
Enquiries, requests for more detailed information and submissions can be forwarded to Prof. Dr. Kanagasingam Yogesan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Editors:
Prof. Dr. Kanagasingam Yogesan
Drs Lodewijk Bos
Prof. Peter Brett
Prof. M. Chris Gibbons
Prof. Hermie Hermens
Timeline:
Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: May 15, 2008
Proposal Acceptance Due Date: June 1, 2008
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: August 29, 2008
Review/ Corrections Deadline: October 31, 2008
Camera Ready due date: December 1, 2008
Planned Publishing Date: February 2009
For further information, please visit:
http://www.icmcc.org
About ICMCC
ICMCC (International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics) is an international foundation operating as the knowledge centre for medical and care compunetics, 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. For further information, visit www.icmcc.org.