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Call for Book Chapters: Digital Homecare - Successes And Failures

Digital Homecare, as defined in the first ICMCC book on the subject, is "a collection of services to deliver, maintain and improve care in the home environment using the latest ICT technology and devices", covering aspects like assistive technology, telemedicine, mhealth, rehabilitation, aimed at elderly, chronic patients and/or handicapped people with the objective of improving efficiency and quality of care and life.

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Challenges and Issues in Health Care Information Management

28 April 2010, Brussels, Belgium.
The European FP7 Research Project DebugIT "Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technology" is delivering first results.

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Second Call for NoE Exemplar Projects

The VPH NoE has opened the call for NoE Exemplar Projects. This call is reserved to core and general members of the NoE. However, it is possible to apply for membership at the same time as the submission of the Exemplar Project proposal.

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Call for Participation: Workshop on Procurement of eHealth Solutions

21 October 2010, Brussels, Belgium.
This workshop is an initiative of the eHealth Procurers' community, supported by the European Commission and aims to share experiences and best practices on procuring eHealth services.

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Cloud Technology to Combat Cancer

Cloud services provided over grid technology are helping to treat cancer patients, thanks to an enormous effort by European researchers working closely with industry. Cancer is Europe's second largest killer and one of the most difficult diseases to treat.

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Biomedical Research Infrastructure Goes Global

Six institutions from Canada, the Czech Republic, Austria, France and Italy have now become official partners of the Infrafrontier consortium. With the participation of Canada, the consortium will be extended beyond Europe. The aim is to create a multinational research infrastructure for the phenotyping and archiving of mouse models of human diseases.

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Global Telemedicine and eHealth Initiatives this Week at Med-e-Tel 2010

14-16 April 2010, Luxembourg.
Med-e-Tel 2010 is just around the corner, taking place this week at the Luxexpo Exhibition and Congress Center in Luxembourg.

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Call For An Industrial Partner - TOBI Project

The following project currently active in the Seventh Framework program of the European Community for research area and to innovation (2007-2013) requires the participation of a new partner to carry out certain tasks within the project. Please note that the Seventh Framework program offers part-funding not full-funding of research activities.

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Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications in the European Union

The adoption of the EU electronic communications reform package in November 2009 paved the way towards strengthening the European electronic communications market by revising rules to ensure more effective competition and better rights for consumers. Much has been accomplished already: the market has become more competitive, generating investment, innovation and growth in all 27 EU Member States.

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Med-e-Tel 2010 - Annual, International Telemedicine and eHealth Forum

The 8th edition of Med-e-Tel, the International eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT Forum, will take place on 14-16 April 2010 at Luxexpo, the Luxembourg Exhibition and Congress Center.

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