Detailed Table of Contents Preface .................................................................................................................................................xiii Chapter 1 A Roadmap to the Introduction of Pervasive Information Systems in Healthcare ................................. 1 Fotis Kitsios, University of Macedonia, Greece Thanos Papadopoulos, University of Southampton, UK Spyros Angelopoulos, The University of Warwick, UK Pervasive healthcare is an emerging research discipline, which focuses on the development of perva- sive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare environments. Information and Communica- tion Technologies have dramatically evolved during the last decade, laying a solid foundation for the future generation of Ubiquitous Internet access. As a result, current efforts in research and development in the areas of pervasive healthcare, promote the formation of inter-disciplinary international teams of experts, scientists, researchers and engineers to create a new generation of applications and technolo- gies that will facilitate the fully automated information cyberspace systems. The authors discuss the