pHealth.

This chapter deals with my view on pHealth both as president of ICMCC, an international foundation dealing with the social, societal and ethical implications of the use of ICT in medicine and care and as a cancer survivor.

"The impatient patient".

Modern Healthcare Systems that have embraced ICT and Internet technologies (referred to as Health 1.0) are evolving towards self management but from a clinical knowledge perspective. In contrast, from a user experience perspective, and using the latest web 2.

Medical and care compunetics the future of patient-related ICT.

This article deals with the role of compunetics in the future of patient-related ICT. Information supply, knowledge centers, gathering of personal and secondary data, the role of patient and professional networks, e-learning are the topics covered here.

Healthcare compunetics.

Changes in life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and health seeking behaviour are having an impact on the demand for care. Such changes could occur across the whole population, or for specific groups. Changes for specific groups will be particularly affected by policy initiatives, while both these and wider changes will be affected by people's levels of engagement with their health and the health service itself.