This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century, eHealth 2008, held in London, UK, in September 2008.

Organized as a meeting point for telecare product vendors, policy makers, government ministers, academics, clinicians and all those involved in electronic and mobile health the eHealth conference provides a forum to examine and to share ideas contributing to the advancement of telecare into the 21st century. The 21 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from the presentations at the conference. The papers cover various topics such as data mining for personalized healthcare services, healthcare supply chain management and implementing the electronic health record, diagnostics and intelligent real-time monitoring, human factors, policies, regulations and standards, interoperability solutions, security, privacy, trust and risk management, as well as novel telecare products.

This volume is the first in the LNICST series that aims at serving the scientific community at large by deploying digital age access and use of information tools by putting knowledge in the service of digital economy and quality of life.

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Full Papers.- Continuous Monitoring of Children with Suspected Cardiac Arrhythmias.- An Evaluation Framework for EU Research and Development e-Health Projects' Systems.- Health@Home - An e-Service Model for Disease Prevention and Healthcare in the Home.- Agent-Based Simulation of Emergency Departments with Patient Diversion.- Weird Project: E-Health Service Improvement Using WiMAX.- Data Management in an Intelligent Environment for Cognitive Disabled and Elderly People.- 3P: Personalized Pregnancy Prediction in IVF Treatment Process.- Bridging the Self-care Deficit Gap: Remote Patient Monitoring and the Hospital-at-Home.- Cognitive Network Infrastructures and Virtualization Platforms in Support of Healthcare Applications.- Device Data Protection in Mobile Healthcare Applications.- Persuasive Mobile Health Applications.- Teledermatology Helps Doctors and Hospitals to Serve Their Clients.- AXARM: An Extensible Remote Assistance and Monitoring Tool for ND Telerehabilitation.- A Group Decision Support System for Staging of Cancer.- A Trust Framework of Ubiquitous Healthcare with Advanced Petri Net Model.- PPEPR for Enterprise Healthcare Integration.- VirtualECare: Intelligent Assisted Living.- Privacy and Access Control for IHE-Based Systems.- An Avatar-Based Italian Sign Language Visualization System.- Web Based Personal Nutrition Management Tool.- Event-Based Data Dissemination Control in Healthcare.- Short Papers.- Decision Support Systems: Improving Levels of Care and Lowering Costs in Anticoagulation Therapy.- NHS Blood Tracking Pilot: City University Evaluation Project.- eHealth and Global Health: Investments Opportunities and Challenges for Industry in Developing Countries.- Web-Based Architecture to Enable Compute-Intensive CAD Tools and Multi-userSynchronization in Teleradiology.- Research Challenges in Future Health Care Systems.- Aligning Technology with the Organisation Using Focus and User Groups.- Diabetes City: How Urban Game Design Strategies Can Help Diabetics.- Potentials of Web 2.0 for Diabetes Education of Adolescent Patients.- Invited Paper.- Induction for Radiology Patients.