[Sigkm-l] Handbook of Research on Developments in e-Health and Telemedicine - call for chapter proposals

[Maria Manuela C. Cunha]

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Handbook of Research on Developments in e-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and 
Social Perspectives

A book edited by M. Manuela Cunha, António Tavares and Ricardo Simões
Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

Proposals submission deadline: June 30, 2008

http://ehealth_and_telemedicine.ipca.pt
ehealth.and.telemedicine at gmail.com


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     We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the "Handbook of Research on 
Developments in e-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives" 
within your field of expertise related to the handbook topics.


*** Introduction:

     According to well-established definitions, e-Health refers to the use of 
information and communication technologies to meet the needs of citizens, patients, 
healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, and policy makers.
     'e-Health is today's tool for substantial productivity gains, while providing 
tomorrow's instrument for restructured, citizen-centered health care systems'
     The Internet has created and continues creating new opportunities and challenges 
to the health care information technology industry, to organizations and to citizens. 
We are witnessing a growing number of successful e-Health developments in a wide 
range of domains, including health information networks, electronic health records, 
telemedicine services, wearable and portable monitoring systems, and health portals. 
Simultaneously, since e-health encompasses more than mere technological development, 
significant developments can be seen in complementary disciplines such as psychology, 
sociology, law, management of healthcare services, and other.


*** The mission and overall objectives of this book:

     The mission of the proposed book is to discuss the main issues, challenges, 
opportunities and trends related to this new field of knowledge able to transform the 
way we live and deliver services, from the social and technological dimensions, in a 
very comprehensive way, and to disseminate current developments and practical 
solutions and applications.

     We intend to highlight with this proposed handbook of research that e-health 
encompasses more than mere technological development.

     The overall objectives are:
      - To discuss the importance of e-Health and the emerging technological 
developments and practical solutions.
      - To introduce the state-of-the-art supporting technology.
      - To introduce and discuss the challenges associated with e-Health 
developments, from the social, organizational and technological perspectives.
      - To introduce recent technological developments and associated human / social 
implications.
      - To introduce relevant and recent developments and solutions (academic and 
industrial) addressing the several dimensions and issues of the handbook of research.

     The book is intended to support the academic audience (teachers, researchers and 
students, mainly of post-graduated studies), healthcare professionals (health 
specialists, medical doctors, sociologists and administrators), and IT professionals 
(system developers and IT specialists) and policy makers.


*** Recommended topics:

     The book intends to collect the most recent contributions on the social and 
technological dimensions of the largely multidisciplinary field of e-Health. It is 
intended to cover the following aspects:

1.- The technological dimension that enables and supports teleservices, telemedicine, 
teleoperation and telemonitoring. The technological dimension includes:
      - Information systems and technologies
      - Communication technologies
      - Monitoring technologies
      - Information and systems integration
      - Electronic medical records
      - Electronic devices

2.- The social and human dimensions, which explores motivations, benefits and 
emergent effects of e-Health project implementations, and which include, for example:
      - Increased quality of life
      - Increased life expectancy
      - Trust and privacy issues
      - Ethical aspects
      - Legal aspects
      - Training

3.- Organizational aspects and management of e-health services

4.- Business and entrepreneurial perspective focusing on the added value of specific 
applications

5.- Impact, implications and challenges (social and technological) of e-Health
      - On individuals, families and communities
      - On organizations and business
      - On scientific knowledge and on research

6.- Ongoing developments, applications and case studies
      - Emerging solutions
      - Relevant R&D projects
      - Integration between applications and solutions
      - Current development trends

7.- Integration with other disciplines:
      - Sociology
      - Psychology
      - Gerontology
      - Distributed technologies and systems
      - Knowledge management


 *** Submission Procedure

       Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 30, 
2008, a 1-2 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of 
the proposed chapter.
       Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 15, 2008 about the 
status of their proposals and will be sent chapter organization guidelines. Upon 
acceptance of your proposal, you will have until October 15, 2008, to prepare your 
chapter of 8,000-10,000 words and 7-10 related terms and their appropriate 
definitions.  Guidelines for preparing your paper and terms and definitions will be 
sent to you upon acceptance of your proposal. All submitted chapters will be reviewed 
on a double-blind review basis.
       The book is scheduled to be published in 2010 by IGI Global, 
http://www.igi-global.com, publisher of Information Science Reference (formerly Idea 
Group Reference), and Medical Information Science Reference imprints.


*** Submissions should be forwarded electronically (Word document as attachment) to 
ehealth.and.telemedicine at gmail.com.  LaTex files cannot be accepted.

       Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact 
the editors.
       For more detailed information, please visit the project website 
http://ehealth_and_telemedicine.ipca.pt


       We appreciate your consideration of this invitation and hope to hear from you 
soon!


Kind regards,

Maria Manuela Cunha, António Tavares & Ricardo Simões
mcunha at ipca.pt, ajtavares at ipca.pt, rsimoes at ipca.pt

Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave
School of Technology
Urbanizacao Quinta da Formiga
4750 Barcelos
Portugal
Tel.:  +351-253-802 260
Fax:  +351-253-812 461