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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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conhIT 2010 - Improving Operating Conditions with IT

20-22 April 2010, Berlin, Germany.
Organised by the German Association of the Healthcare IT Industry (VHitG) and Messe Berlin, this year conhIT 2010 is cooperating with the 127th Congress of the German Society for Surgery which takes place at the same time. The use of modern IT solutions in surgery is impressive proof that IT-based solutions in medicine make life easier not just for financial controllers and administrative heads in hospitals.

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Cornwall Mainstreams Telehealth Solutions Following Successful Department of Health Pilot

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, one of the Department of Health's three national Whole System Demonstrator pilot sites, will continue to deliver telehealthcare services and make it available to more patients in the Cornwall region.

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IBM Launches Global Entrepreneur Initiative to Help Start-Ups

In today's challenging economic environment, technology start-ups can struggle to bring new ideas to market. In response, IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened its resources to these companies in a new initiative to help this next generation of entrepreneurs capture emerging business opportunities in fast-growing industries such as energy and utilities, health care, telecommunications and government.

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