Dear Colleagues,

The Second International Health and Social Care Modelling Conference
(HSCM2008) http://info200.infc.ulst.ac.uk/events/hscm2008/ was a great
success.  A special volume of Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer,
on Intelligent Patient Management will be published as post conference
proceedings and will also be open to quality papers that were not presented at
the  conference.  We welcome papers in the broad areas of computational
patient-centred practical and theoretical approaches for measuring and
modelling, managing and evaluating health and social care systems.

Topics include but are not limited to:

Capacity /Resource planning
Planning Community Services
Care Management
Disease Monitoring and Management
Early Diagnosis and Screening
Forecasting
Forward planning
Impact of E-Health and Smart technology on patient management
Implementing Change
Length of stay modelling
Long Term Care
Long Term Planning
Patient flows
Queues and occupancy
Resource Usage
Smart Home Technology
Data analysis in smart environments
Strategic planning
Waiting List Management
Workforce Planning

All submitted papers will undergo the normal peer review process.

Important dates:
End of June 2008 deadline for paper submission.
End of Oct. 2008 deadline for the first round of refereeing.
End of Dec 2008 Deadline for submitting revised papers.
Late 2009: Publication.

Please submit by email (pdf or Word file) to Sally McClean
si.mcclean@ulster.ac.uk Final versions of accepted papers should be a
maximum of 20 pages and should follow the Springer style, available at:
{www.springer.com/series/7092" }www.springer.com/series/7092

Sally McClean (University of Ulster),
Peter Millard (St. George's, London)
Elia El-Darzi, (University of Westminster)
Chris Nugent (University of Ulster)

(Guest Editors)