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100,000

Lodewijk — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:38:11 +0000

I am proud to announce that during the weekend of 2-3 June 2012 we passed the 100,000 unique visitors on the ICMCC website in 2012. We are grateful to all of those who found the way to one of the leading information websites about Health IT news and science on the internet. We do not advertize [...]

Easter Break

Lodewijk — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:03:50 +0000

From Friday 22 April through Sunday 1 May, there will be limited updates to the ICMCC News Page, due to Easter break.

2010 in Numbers

Lodewijk — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:12:34 +0000

ICMCC Website in 2010 Unique visitors: 134,278. Visits: 3,881,356. Pageviews: 8,328,098. Hits: 10,410,476. Since 1 January 2007: Visits: 5,008,283. Pageviews: 14,173,004. Hits: 19,628,750.

Healthy and Prosperous 2011

Lodewijk — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:42:31 +0000

ICMCC wishes all our website visitors (almost 134,000 in 2010) a healthy and prosperous 2011.

Happy Holidays

Lodewijk — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:47:38 +0000

We would like to wish all our readers Happy Holidays. Till the beginning of 2011 the ICMCC News Page will have limited updates.

GHITA-ICMCC 2011 Call for Papers

Lodewijk — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:20:59 +0000

CHANGED DATES: 14 – 15 June, 2011 Awareness, a Societal Challenge The only way for improving our citizens health status is to prevent diseases by engaging citizens to improving their lifestyle, to set up dedicated preventive programs to citizens at risk due to individual or family dispositions, to improve quality and safety of citizens if becoming patients, [...]

Patient expectations in the digital world

Lodewijk — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:50:37 +0000

Presentation given by ICMCC President Lodewijk Bos at the Estonian eHealth Conference in Tallinn on 14 October 2010. Speech Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC, 14 October 2010

100,000 visitors, thank you!!

Lodewijk — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:02:03 +0000

On Saturday 9 October the ICMCC site passed the 100,000 unique visitors in 2010. We want to thank all of you who came and come to visit our site. Not only did (and do) you visit this site in big numbers, 40% of you come back and all together you pay us over 9,000 visits [...]

6 million hits in 2010

Lodewijk — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:39:52 +0000

In 2010 the ICMCC News Page and Science Pages reached 6 million hits, 2 million visits and almost 5 million pageviews by over 84,000 visitors.

Lodewijk Bos on Compunetics, ICMCC and GHITA (video)

Lodewijk — Sun, 30 May 2010 10:27:14 +0000

At the WHCC Lodewijk Bos, president ICMCC, gave an interview on compunetics, the ICMCC Foundation and next year’s GHITA conference.

German Health Regions of the Future

Lodewijk — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:03:32 +0000

Prof. Dr. B. Bergh second from left 3 German regions have been named Health Regions of the Future and awarded a total of EUR 22 million for the next 4 years. One of the three regions is the Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar.Goal of the awarded MRN proposal is to improve medical care and health quality of the citizen through [...]

Evaluation of Response Time Delay of a Pen-Tablet System in Thin-Client Computing Environments: Implications for Usability

Lodewijk — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:11:24 +0000

To be presented at ICMCC 2010 Event. Changeover from the traditional paper-based patient records to the computerized patient records has been spreading rapidly in medical facilities. Since ordinary input devices such as a keyboard and mouse are often thought insufficient for the needs of medical workers using electronic patient records [...]

An Improved Method of Measurement of ECG Parameters for Online Medical Diagnosis

Lodewijk — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:49:44 +0000

To be presented at ICMCC 2010 Event. The accuracy in the online measurement of ECG parameters has a decisive role in the better diagnosis and effective treatment of the diseases. The present paper describes a Lab-VIEW based programming using Pan Tompkins method to extract out QRS complex whereas QT interval measurements [...]

Setting Core Standards: Privacy, Identity & Interoperability

Lodewijk — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:19:35 +0000

This position paper focuses on strategic developments and underlying concepts emerging out of the standards and associated domains. It addresses the issue of personal privacy in the wider context of interoperability across an ever-growing range of e-health and social care support systems and processes. These will increasingly be driven by [...]

Personalized Healthcare: The Vision and Practical Implementations Today

Lodewijk — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:33:27 +0000

ICMCC 2010 Event Keynote by Peter Waegemann VP mHealth Initiative Inc. USA. Personalized Healthcare: The Vision and Practical Implementations Today Encourage/Expect/Require the patient to be an active participant in the healthcare process Moving the examination and care process to the “care space” and the [...]

ICMCC-GHITA

Lodewijk — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:31:05 +0000

ICMCC announces: The first Global Health IT Awareness Event to be held in June 2011.

ICMCC Event 2010 Accepted Papers

Lodewijk — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:03:20 +0000

The abstracts for presentation at the ICMCC Event 2010 are known. You can find the overview here. All papers will be published in: “Medical and Care Compunetics 6″ (IOSPress)

ICMCC 2010 Event Tutorials

Lodewijk — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:55:49 +0000

For the first time the ICMCC Event 2010 offers a day of tutorials. There will be 2 tutorials, each scheduled to last 6 hours, for which can be registered independently from the rest of the event. The tutorials are: Biostatistics (Rajaram Lakshminarayan, Ph.D., Quantum Enterprises, USA) Biomedical research plays a crucial role in the practice of medicine and [...]

New ICMCC Science Pages

Lodewijk — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:34:18 +0000

We are happy to announce the new ICMCC Science Pages. More information.

ICMCC 2010 News

Lodewijk — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:32:03 +0000

Details about the ICMCC Event 2010 Programme will be announced early March.

Subscription

Lodewijk — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:54:34 +0000

You can now also subscribe to the ICMCC News Page by e-mail. Click here for all the ways to follow us.

ICMCC News Page Update 27 October

Lodewijk — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:28:16 +0000

I was released from hospital last night so I will be slowly getting the daily updates back on track as well as trying to fill the gaps of the last 10 days and wade through the 1000+ emails. I sincerely thank all the visitors of the ICMCC Website for their loyalty. Despite the missing daily updates [...]

ICMCC News Page Update

Lodewijk — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:03:56 +0000

Early Tuesday morning I suffered from a very serious attack of cellulitis. Antibiotics and morphine are the prescribed medication. Especially the morphine makes it very difficult to focus on the host of sources. Therefor the News Page will be very scarcely updated in the next coming days. Lodewijk Bos

ICMCC Handbook of Digital Homecare

Lodewijk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:16:17 +0000

Now available! Click here for more information.

Prof. Björn Bergh joined ICMCC

Lodewijk — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:24:12 +0000

It is an immense pleasure to announce that as of 1 October 2009 Prof. Dr. med. Björn Bergh has joined the ICMCC Council Board.

ICMCC@WC2009 Speech

Lodewijk — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:56:19 +0000

On 9 September 2009 the ICMCC president Lodewijk Bos gave a keynote speech at the World Congress 2009, “Compunetics – The Other Side of Technology“. You can read it here.

5 years ICMCC

Lodewijk — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:43:17 +0000

Today, 8 September 2009, is the 5th anniversary of the foundation of ICMCC. In those 5 years we have organised outstanding conferences with high level publications. We have put compunetics on the scientific map and when patient aspects of medical and care technology are involved we are being recognised by many as an important partner. And [...]

Next: ICMCC@WC2009

Lodewijk — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:57:38 +0000

On September 9 and 10 the abridged version of the annual ICMCC Event will take place at the WC2009 with a session on compunetics and a session on ontologies. More details. ICMCC President Lodewijk Bos will deliver a WC2009 track keynote on Wednesday 9 September at 10.30am, “Compunetics, the Other Side of Technology“.

ICMCC Website offline

Lodewijk — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:27:48 +0000

Due to probably a DDOS-attack the website has been offline for quite a while. We apologize for the inconvenience and our doing our utmost to avoid this in the future. Lodewijk Bos

Blogpost: Observations 30 August 2009: Theft

Lodewijk — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:11:42 +0000

THERE IS NO REASON TO CARRY AROUND ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS, ESPECIALLY NOT IN BULK. Many stories have been published about breaches in EHR security, hospitals hacked, USB sticks lost, laptops stolen. During the almost 3 years that I am maintaining this news page I did not pay much attention to it as I am convinced that [...]

Observations 28 August 2009

Lodewijk — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:21:40 +0000

“I see many news articles and scientific publications pass by every day. And sometimes you come across an article that makes you think that it is not only right to the point, it is also showing you the way. This article that I want to mention now was also a reminder and an eye opener [...]

Sen. Edward Kennedy (1932-2009)

Lodewijk — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:41:19 +0000

ICMCC expresses its condolences to the American people for the loss of a great leader, especially in many areas in healthcare. Lodewijk Bos, President ICMCC

MIE 2009

Lodewijk — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:15:33 +0000

ICMCC is pleased to announce the XXII Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference of the EFMI August 30 – September 2, 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. For more information see the ICMCC Conference page.

Blog: Observations 14 August 2009: e-Consults, are they safe?

Lodewijk — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:01:16 +0000

“Gathering the news items for the ICMCC News Page I came across this anonymous post “It’s a Virtual World Out There – The New Dawn of Telemedicine”. And one remark triggered my need to react and post this observation.” Article Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC, 14 August 2009

Blogpost: Observations: Three Years as Chemo Patient

Lodewijk — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:30:44 +0000

It is three years ago today that I started chemotherapy for a B-cell plasmablastair non Hodgkin cd20 negative.Â More details you can find here. You can also read there why I publish much less on this blog than I would like. The treatment turned me from a cancer patient into a chemo patient as I seem [...]

ICMCC@WC2009 Program

Lodewijk — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:17:10 +0000

ICMCC presents the program of its annual event, which is incorporated in The World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2009. ICMCC President Lodewijk Bos has been invited to deliver a keynote on Compunetics, on Wednesday 9 September. ICMCC@WC2009 will have 2 sessions: Compunetics, chaired by Prof. Stephen Benton (Wednesday 9 September) Ontology, chaired by Prof. Bernd Blobel (Thursday [...]

ICMCC Newsletter 14

Lodewijk — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:50:50 +0000

The issues of this newsletter are: ICMCC@WC2009 Event Call for Participation Digital Homecare book Publishing Contract Signed ICMCC Website - 500,000 visitors, 2,000,000 pageviews and 4,000,000 hits in 31 months - new upcoming feature Newsletter

Observations: EHR, the experience of an English practice

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:27:17 +0000

Do have a look at how EHRs can enhance the work of a physician, the position of a patient and the relationship between both. Blog Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC

Observations 23 June 2009: Declaration

Lodewijk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:42:23 +0000

“It had to happen. After weeks of following the discussion “meaningful use” it became obvious that the patient should be part of the equation. And it did happen.Yesterday “A Declaration of Health Data Rights” was published. And the whole US health IT blog world is buzzing about ownership.” Article Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog, 23 June 2009

ICMCC Toolbar

Lodewijk — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:50:24 +0000

To make our news supply even more easily accessible, we offer now for free the ICMCC Toolbar. Direct links to all parts of the ICMCC website, RSS feeds and main news topics, directly from the ICMCC Toolbar. Available for Firefox and IE. Click here to get it.

The Beauty of ICMCC News Page

Lodewijk — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:21:55 +0000

Read more Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog, 19 June 2009

Interoperability Summit: Establishing the Infrastructure for Health Assurance and Disease Prevention, Washington 1-2 June 2009

Lodewijk — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:27:33 +0000

“Establishing infrastructure for health assurance and disease prevention through healthcare transformation was the theme of this invitation-only event. The meeting was sponsored by the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and co-sponsored by all major technical professional societies engaged in health information technology issues, from ethics and standardsâ€¦ to patient care and eHealth.” Article Michael [...]

WTN Nomination

Lodewijk — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:42:24 +0000

ICMCC President Lodewijk Bos has been nominated for the WTN Ethics Award 2009.

May numbers

Lodewijk — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:28:23 +0000

We crossed the 10,000 unique visitors barrier! Here the overview: 10,067 unique visitors 26,705 visits 470,846 hits 107,251 pageviews. Since 1 January 2007: Visits: 425,550 Pageviews: 1,530,720 Hits: 3,353,382 Average unique visitors per month in 2007: 3,880 Average unique visitors per month in 2008: 6,750+ Average unique visitors per month in 2009: 9,019 More details. The most popular posts: New AHA/ASA Guidelines on TIA Management and Telemedicine in Acute Stroke [...]

Server outage

Lodewijk — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:00:09 +0000

We apologize for the 11 hours outage on 29/30 May. Lodewijk Bos

Observations 25 May 2009 – about numbers

Lodewijk — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:45:13 +0000

“It was my intention to write an observation today on something remarkable which I already mentioned a couple of months ago: “do these studies really have any value at all, looking at the numbers involved?”. The reason why I come back to this is because of a publication in Health Data Management, published 1 June, by Howard [...]

ICMCC Website got new layout

Lodewijk — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:27:54 +0000

“As ofÂ Sunday 24 May 2009, the ICMCC Website has a new layout. We appreciate your opinion about this layout and please let us know if you find any problems/bugs. Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC

Presentation WHCC Europe 2009

Lodewijk — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:24:24 +0000

But how participatory are we really? The answer you often hear is that we are patient centric.

ICMCC@WC2009 Ontology Session

Lodewijk — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:55:24 +0000

"Ontologies, Semantic Interoperability and Electronic Health Records - Standards for Patient Empowerment"

Chaired by Prof. Dr. Bernd Blobel, this session will take place on 10 September. This ICMCC session has been supported by the Working Group "Electronic Health Records" of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and the Working Group "Standards for Interoperability and EHR" of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS).

ICMCC@WC2009 (9-10 September 2009)

Lodewijk — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:16:47 +0000

The 6th ICMCC Annual Event will take place at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2009 on 9 and 10 September. This will offer us a unique opportunity to cover issues that are still relatively “unknown” to the medical physics, biomedical engineering and bioengineering community. The World Congress is the world’s leading forum [...]