Call for Book Chapters: Digital Homecare - Successes And Failures

Digital Homecare, as defined in the first ICMCC book on the subject, is "a collection of services to deliver, maintain and improve care in the home environment using the latest ICT technology and devices", covering aspects like assistive technology, telemedicine, mhealth, rehabilitation, aimed at elderly, chronic patients and/or handicapped people with the objective of improving efficiency and quality of care and life.

The purpose of this book is to collect experiences of project development and outcome in digital homecare for others to learn from both best practices and failures. In the editors' view the experiences of those involved in development and outcome of projects (independent of the kind of outcome) can and should be used by others working on (innovative) projects of digital homecare, realizing the importance of those projects in the light of ageing population problems and economic and legal challenges.

In Europe the tendency seems to go towards larger projects, after 2 decennia of smaller projects and pilots. However, the experiences of those smaller projects can be very helpful. We also aim at stories from projects run at a national or large organizational level.

For this book are welcome projects that are either technical or social or the combination of these two with the following sizes defined:

  • Small: at micro level, the level of a single organization;
  • Medium: at meso level, the regional level or co-operation organizations;
  • Large: at macro level, the level of a nation of even international.

Timeline

  • Required: a written intend of submission no later than 16 May 2010.
  • First full versions of chapters by 1 September 2010.
  • Review results will be announced by 1 October 2010.
  • Final chapter versions by 15 October 2010.

Publisher: Springer Verlag, In: Communications in Medical & Care Compunetics.

Editors: Lodewijk Bos, Adrie Dumay, Leonard Goldschmidt, Bryan Manning, Griet Verhenneman, Kanagasingam Yogesan

For further information, please visit:
http://www.icmcc.org/2010/04/12/digital-homecare-successes-and-failures/

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.

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