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International Consortium Announces the 1000 Genomes Project

An international research consortium announced the 1000 Genomes Project, an ambitious effort that will involve sequencing the genomes of at least a thousand people from around the world to create the most detailed and medically useful picture to date of human genetic variation. The project will receive major support from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England, the Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen (BGI Shenzhen) in China and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Call for Papers: Medicine 2.0

Medicine 2.0 - How social networking and Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize health care, wellness, clinical medicine and biomedical research.
In the past few years we have seen the rapid evolution of new tools and programming techniques collectively called "Web 2.0 tools", which facilitate the development of collaborative and user-friendly Web applications. Typically, the Web 2.0 is a term which refers to

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ePractice eHealth Management Workshop

Belgium, 6 March 2008.
This workshop will review IT management issues with a core focus on eHealth. It is geared to two sets of people those with a particular interest in eHealth and those with a general interest in public services and their use of information and communication technologies. Especially welcome are health service managers and executives, public sector officials, civil servants, ICT managers, designers and implementers.

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UK's Supercomputer HECToR Goes On Line

The UK has launched a new supercomputer facility called HECToR (High-end computing terascale resources). The system, which represents the equivalent of 12,000 desktop systems in processing power, is based at the University of Edinburgh's Advanced Computing Facility (ACF) and will run for six years.

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Docobo Unveils Multi-User HealthHUB for Groups of Patients

Docobo, the leading UK manufacturer of telehealth solutions that enables the remote monitoring of patients with long term health conditions such as asthma, COPD, heart disease and hypertension, has unveiled a multi-user version of its HealthHUB portable home monitor. It means that two or more patients can now utilise one device.

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Google Foundation's Predict and Prevent Initiative

Predict and Prevent aims to strengthen traditional disease surveillance and response, but Google.org also hope to foster thinking about what we can do to predict threats before they occur and focus on prevention. In partnership with others, will be enabled a rapid and effective response to emerging threats by improving detection and validation, and establishing better systems for early warning.

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Assessing Risk for Health Care IT Organizations

Health care providers are adopting health care information technology (IT) to increase productivity, profitability, and the quality of patient care delivery. Adoption of health care IT will continue to expand around the globe, resulting in new challenges for the IT organization. Health care departments will demand that clinical and business systems be made resistant to interruption and unauthorized access.

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Sybermedica and CypherIT Launch Automated DICOM Mail Service

Sybermedica and Cypher IT have announced an agreement to link their PACSMail and bbRad image and report sharing technologies to provide a secure, flexible, automated data sharing service for clinical networks. The link allows users of Cypher IT's bbRad teleradiology server to share DICOM studies with users of the Sybermedica PACSMail network.

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Telenursing Symposium Scheduled at Med-e-Tel 2008

A mini symposium on telenursing will be part of this year's Med-e-Tel. Telenursing is defined by the International Council of Nurses as "the use of telecommunications technology in nursing to enhance patient care". A growing application, telenursing offers possibilities to reduce the use of expensive healthcare services, to reduce hospital admissions or length of stay, to perform regular check-ups on patients with chronic conditions, to spread limited resources over a large population, and to increase access to nurse education.

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Call for Papers ASK-IT Final Conference

Mobility for All - The Use of Ambient Intelligence in Addressing the Mobility Needs of People with Impairments: The Case of ASK-IT
Nuremberg, Germany, 26-27 June, 2008
The second International conference of ASK-IT marks the end of this EU research funded project. The conference will provide the opportunity to see and test the ASK-IT service and products that have been developed.

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