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ICST Transactions on Pervasive Healthcare

Journal Advisory Board

  • Sir Jonathan Michael, Deputy Healthcare Director, British Telecommunications, UK
  • Kevin Dean, Healthcare Director, Cisco, USA
  • Professor Iain Buchan, Manchester Medical School, University of Manchester, UK
  • Professor David Ingram, University College, London, UK
  • Professor De Moor, School of Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium

Aims:

It is widely acknowledged that pressures such as treatment advances, increasing chronic disease burden of an aging population, and a falling carer-support ratio render many of the current health care provision models unsustainable. It is recognized that information and communications technology (ICT) is fundamental to enabling changes in the way services can be delivered and the outcomes that can be achieved. However, health is perhaps the last of the information intensive industries to adopt ICT on an integrated industry-wide basis. ICT enables more care to be delivered at home, helping to contain health costs by reducing demand for more expensive hospital care. It also provides a safer and less stressful environment for many patients. Patients and Citizens are taking an increasingly active role in managing their own health and wellbeing, through seeking medical information, monitoring their physiological parameters, and participating in activity programs. Pervasive healthcare, an emerging research discipline of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology in health care, is a very important component in addressing these requirements.

Scope:

This new journal of ICST Transactions on Pervasive Healthcare will focus on the emerging issues on the following topics:

  1. Privacy, trust and security - electronic patient records, models for trust and privacy, novel mobile encryption technologies, Identity federation, role based access control, single sign on, privacy enhancing technologies. Privacy legislation updates on current implementation achievements and challenges. Professional Confidentiality and Trust what ethical and legal obligations must be considered?
  2. Epidemiology and Early warning systems and outbreak detection - information and IT support systems for early warning and outbreak detection programs, data management issues, data collection
  3. Healthcare ontologies and knowledge management systems - annotation, health care ontologies, coding standards, communication standards, quality tagging and quality of service, distribution issues, coding systems and ontologies mapping, search, users customisation, alert agents
  4. E-learning, educational games and the impact of information delivery to patients and professionals - using digital libraries in building online communities, chat rooms, moderated discussion groups, qualitative and quantitative evaluation studies, user attitude towards the knowledge, studies of changes of user attitude with respect to digital libraries
  5. Web 2.0/3.0 in healthcare and online communities of practice – Implementation of social networking platforms for the wellbeing of the patients, improved patient knowledge sharing using online communities, electronic patient kiosks, collaborative surgery using online tools
  6. Benefits and challenges with implementation of process standards – There are several challenges faced due to lack of standards in healthcare models. Issues around identifying some common standards and policies for next generation healthcare will be valuable to the healthcare community

EIC’s keywords:

electronic patient records, virtual social networking in healthcare, wearable sensors, telemedicine, outbreak detection, digital imaging, healthcare standards, teleprevention, teleepidemiology, e-trials