Electronic Healthcare

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century, eHealth 2009, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 2009.

The 14 full papers presented and 10 technical presentations were carefully selected by over 80 submissions. The papers focus on topics such as telehealth and mobile health solutions, outbreak management, Web 2.0 and public health communications, EPR - trust, security and decision support, ICT support for patients and healthcare organizations, evaluation of ICT in healthcare, healthcare knowledge management and ontologies, Web 2.0, multimedia and personalisation, eHealth automation and decision support as well as European centre for disease preventation and control.