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Call for Papers - BIOTECHNO 2008

International Conference on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Technologies
June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania

Bio-oriented technologies became very popular in various research topics and industrial market segments. Current human mechanisms seem to offer significant ways for improving theories, algorithms, technologies, products and systems. A myriad of theoretical models, dedicated software solutions, and mathematical algorithms and calculi helps improving gathering and representing knowledge on human being.

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SMEs go Health Project

"SMEs go Health" is an initiative designed to support Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) and academic researchers interested in research cooperation and participation in the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7), particularly in the Health-related area. An information and training event takes place on the 13th of September 2007 at the occasion of the "Baltic Dynamics" in Riga, Latvia.

The objective of "SMEs go Health" is to raise the number and quality of involvement of SMEs and SME groupings in Health related projects of FP7.

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Google Health Prototype Speculations

Google Health Product discussions have been again refreshed after several official and non-official Google Health Prototype related news articles.

According to the recent New York Times article, Google executives would not comment on the Google Health prototype, other than to say the company plans to experiment and see what people want.

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The Largest Deployment of Front-End Radiology Speech Recognition in the UK

Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced that its SpeechMagic technology now powers the largest front-end speech recognition site in the UK's healthcare sector. Using SpeechMagic, the 60 radiologists at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) are put in full control of the creation of medical reports. Physicians no longer have to wait for reports to return from the transcription department, which sometimes took several weeks. As a result, clinicians and referring physicians are provided with accurate medical data quickly, to support safe and speedy treatment.

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New Guide Offers Support for the 700,000 People in the UK with Dementia

A new guide has been developed called "Dementia Care - Solutions for Independent Living", offering valuable information on how telecare can be used to support people with dementia and their carers.

Dementia currently affects 700,000 people in the UK, a figure which is set to double in a generation, bringing a financial cost of over £35 billion in residential care and accommodation, lost earnings and unpaid tax.

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Rhapsody Integration Engine Expands NHS Trust Connectivity

Orion Health Limited, a leading provider of integration and clinical workflow technology to the health sector, was pleased to announce today that Rhapsody™ Integration Engine continues to be adopted at a rapid rate by NHS Trusts in England, answering the need to link together internal hospital systems as well as interface to systems deployed under NHS Connecting for Health.

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New Medical Intelligence System Will Help Identify Public Health Threats

The European Commission has developed a medical intelligence system that constantly collects and sorts information from more than 1000 news and 120 public health websites in 32 languages. Complementing traditional approaches, the system, called MediSys, will provide health authorities with real-time knowledge about disease outbreaks or industrial accidents, thereby helping to identify such incidents as early as possible and so react in a timely way. It can also provide invaluable information to authorities tackling a major incident such as a bio-terrorist attack.

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Belgian Hospital Chooses IBM/Mainsoft Portal Solution to Serve Medical Community

IBM and Mainsoft Corporation, an independent software and IBM business partner, announced that the Belgian University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent) has chosen IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 to develop a self-service virtual information center for its 5,000 staff members, students, healthcare professionals, plus more than 380,000 patients and their families that visit the hospital each year.

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High Impact Services in eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth

On the 10th of September 2007, the ePractice.eu Portal will be holding a workshop in Brussels for professionals in the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth domains, focusing on High Impact services.

Deploying large scale services to millions of users is a challenge to ePractice professionals both from the government or the service provider side.

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EU Project Builds European Infrastructure for Testing Biometrics Technologies

An EU-funded project has begun work on setting up a European infrastructure for the testing and certification of biometrics components and systems.

Biometric recognition systems measure the behavioural or physical traits of people. These can be as varied as iris images, fingerprints, the structure of veins in the hand, or even an individual's typing rhythm.

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