A late decision has meant that a stream will now run on:

Social aspects of Health Informatics

 

Submissions to Elayne Coakes on [log in to unmask] by March 8th

Call for Papers: The international council on medical & care compunetics.

Conference: The 5th ICMCC Event will be organised from June 9-11, 2008, at University of Westminster, London.

The main themes of the conference are:

• Electronic Health Record (EHR) Approaches
• Patient Record Access
• Compunetics (Social, societal and ethical issues of ICT)
• Data- , Information-, Knowledge Management

The Leading International Event on Patient-Related ICT in Medicine and Care

For the 5th consecutive year the ICMCC Event is the only international event dealing with patient-related ICT, focusing in 2008 on information related aspects, patient record access, electronic health records and behavioral compunetics. A high quality paper presentation programme representing some of the leading researchers in the field will be offered as well as an outstanding forum of key-note speakers. Further details of related topics are available at: http://2008.icmcc.org/?p=1428.

Due to many requests: the deadline for submission has been changed to 8 March 2008.

The ICMCC Event 2008 will be supported by the BCS Health Informatics Interactive Care Specialist Group. Its chair Mark Outhwaite has joined the organising committee. The BCS Sociotechnical Specialist Group is also supporting the conference and its Vice Chair Dr Elayne Coakes, will be organsing a stream on the Social aspects of Health Informatics.

Accepted papers will be published in “Medical and Care Compunetics 5″ (IOS Press - “Studies in Health Technology and Informatics”) available at the conference.

Author Guidelines

Conference papers

·       Proposed papers for the Social Aspects of Health Informatics should be sent as attachments to Dr Elayne Coakes at [log in to unmask]; Other conference related papers can be sent to: 2008 [at] icmcc [dot] org, mentioning “Event paper” in the subject line.

·       Each full paper has to include an abstract which will be published on the website after acceptance of the paper.

·       Comments as well as notification of acceptance will be sent to you as soon as possible after paper submission. The final version of the paper has to be in by March 30, 2008. This deadline will not be extended for publication reasons.

·       All final papers have to be formatted according to the author instructions (please download from website: http://articles.icmcc.org/wpc/?p=1429. This is mandatory. Wrongly formatted final papers (even when accepted) will be refused. Only Word files will be accepted.

·       All contributions (max. 15 pages A4 per paper) but 6 is more usual - using Times Roman 10pt, will be published in “Medical and Care Compunetics 5″ (IOS Press - “Studies in Health Technology and Informatics”). Diagrams and Pictures are encouraged. The book will be available at the start of the event.

·       To ensure publication in the book “Medical and Care Compunetics 4″, registration and payment for the Event before April 1, 2007 is mandatory for presenters of accepted papers.

Book Contributions

Our annual publication will contain the papers presented during the ICMCC 2008 Event, but will also be a publication platform for those who wish to publish on the ethical, social and societal aspects of medical and care ICT.
These papers will be peer-reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent within 3 weeks after submission.

Publication date of the book will be June 9, 2008.

• Full papers can be submitted at any time, but before February 28, 2008.
• Papers should be sent as attachments to the following address 2008 [at] icmcc [dot] org, mentioning “Free paper” in the subject line.
• All papers have to be formatted according to the author instructions. This is mandatory. Wrongly formatted papers will be refused. Only Word files will be accepted.
• ICMCC will charge the amount of EUR 200 (ex VAT) for each non-conference paper.