Submission Deadline: September 15,
2007
"Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for
E-Health Systems"
A book edited by
Wayne Pease, University of Southern Queensland,
Australia,
Prof. Malcolm Cooper, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan,
and Assoc. Professor Raj Gururajan, University of Southern Queensland,
Australia.
E-Health describes the application of information and communications
technologies (ICT) across the whole range of functions that affect the health
sector, from the doctor to the hospital manager, via nurses, data processing
specialists, social security administrators and - of course - the patients.
E-Health is one of the most rapidly growing areas in health today. However,
limited systematic research has been carried out to inform e-Health policy and
practice. The internet and other developments in e-Health are playing increasing
roles in consumer health behaviour, and in the delivery of health services.
Overall objectives and mission of the book
Key challenges facing
healthcare providers today include an aging population, demanding patients,
medical errors, lack of access to systematic knowledge bases including measuring
health outcomes, and rising costs of health care. These challenges will be
addressed by the contents of this book. Our book is an in-depth examination of
e-Health from a theoretical as well as a practical viewpoint, in an edited paper
format (8000-10000 words). The objective of the edited book is to look at the
current state of play in terms of e-Health research and development of
innovative ICT systems and services that process, integrate and use all relevant
biomedical information for improving health knowledge. An examination of
e-Health will also shed light on the rise of the Asia Pacific region as a
prominent growth area in the use of ICT in the delivery of health services. The
book will be written with a higher level academic readership in mind, while also
being targeted at those who in some way or another are engaged in the study of
ICT solutions to industrial and social problems with respect to health care
delivery in the developing world.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- General overview of eHealth in the 21st Century
- General overview of the ICT environment for eHealth
- Role of ICT as an enabler for healthcare outcomes
- Improving the quality of healthcare services using ICT technologies
- Streamlining multi-disciplinary and multi-level care management
- Improving clinical and administrative efficiency including clinical
governance
- Developing knowledge bases for health care systems
- Meeting training needs for health professionals using ICT technologies
- Maintaining high standards of patient privacy and information security
- User friendliness and community involvement in eHealth systems and
services.
- Legal, ethical and regulatory issues
- Education issues - e-health involves new forms of patient-physician
interaction
- New relationships between health professionals and their patients –
patient centric
- Electronic medical records (EMR) and integrated health platforms
- Extending the scope of health care beyond its conventional boundaries
- New Frontiers for ICT and health care management
- Empowerment of consumers and patients
- Equity and e-health - to make health care more equitable is one of the
promises of e-health, but at the same time there is a considerable threat that
e-health may deepen the gap between the "haves" and "have-nots" – the digital
divide
- Development and implementation of electronic healthcare information
standards for data exchange for use in health informatics e.g. HIPPA, HL7 and
DICOM
- Role of electronic healthcare standards in health informatics
- Data standards for the distribution of meaningful data in health
informatics e.g. controlled medical vocabularies (CMVs) such as the
Standardized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT)
- Decision support systems in healthcare, including clinical decision
support systems
Target Audience
This book is intended to support both researchers
in health information systems and health practitioners who are concerned with
the successful design and implementation of health information systems. In
addition the book will serve as a critical reference resource for various
governmental and non-governmental circles concerned with health service delivery
activities, directly and indirectly.
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to
submit on or before September 15, 2007, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly
explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified by October 15, 2007 about the status of their
proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters (8000-10000
words) are expected to be submitted by January 31, 2008. All submitted chapters
will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be
published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), www.igi-pub.com, and has been selected for inclusion in
IGI Global's most prestigious imprint, Information Science Reference – ISR, as
one of its Handbooks of Research. This highly-acclaimed line of publications
includes only the most advanced, comprehensive research titles published by ISR.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or
by mail to:
Wayne Pease
Associate Dean (Fraser Coast)
Faculty of
Business
Fraser Coast Campus
University of Southern Queensland
PO Box
910
Hervey Bay, Queensland
Australia 4655
Tel.: +61 (0)7
41206123
Fax: +61 (0)7 41206168
E-mail:
pease@xxxxxxxxxx
This email address is being protected from spam
bots, you need _javascript_ enabled to view it