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ICT Policy Support Programme Info Day

A launch event for the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) will be organised on 24 May 2007 in Brussels. This event corresponds to the opening of the first call for proposals of the ICT PSP. The draft agenda of this event and details of the venue are now available.

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eHealth Policy Seminar

Regions - The Key-players in delivering eHealth: What can the "e" do for your region?

This event will take place in Brussels, 11 May 2007, and will be delivered by the eHealth Workgroup of the IANIS+ Project.

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EU project develops intelligent wheelchair

Researchers in MAIA, an EU funded project, have shown how a person can control, using only their brain, the wheelchair on which they are sitting.

This requires tapping into the person's neural network, interpreting the cerebral signals in real time and then developing a mechanism that could respond to these instructions and steer the wheelchair with a high degree of accuracy.

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International Symposium on Biomedical Informatics in Europe

25-27 June 2007, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Spain.
The symposium is organised by the Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) and the European Networks of Excellence INFOBIOMED and SEMANTIC MINING. It aims to serve as a forum to present the results obtained and discuss the current hot topics in Biomedical Informatics.

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EU-US eHealth Policy Workshop

May 10, 2007, Brussels, Marriott Brussels Hotel – Rue Orts, 3-7.
This one-day workshop will focus on interoperability, certification and improving patient safety and healthcare quality through IT. Panelists and robust open discussions will focus on those areas where Transatlantic collaboration could prove mutually beneficial. High-level speakers from EU institutions and Member State governments, the US government, academia and industry will address issues related to standardization, best practices & lessons learned, and policy harmonization. Ample discussion time will be provided during the Q&A sessions.

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Lille Regional University Hospital (CHRU) signs the agreement with Agfa HealthCare

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announces that the Lille Regional Teaching University hospital (CHRU) has chosen its IMPAX(TM) RIS solution for the first stage of its IRIS-project (Intégration du Réseau d'Images au Système d'information hospitalier), aimed at integrating the imaging network into the hospital's IT system. CHRU Lille is France's fourth largest Regional Teaching Hospital, caring for nearly 1 million patients annually.

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Successful EU support: MobilAlarm device available at the market

As of May 2007, the mobile emergency device that was tested in the international project MobilAlarm will be marketed. empirica co-ordinated this project from April 2004 to August 2005. The European Commission supported MobilAlarm in the framework of its programme eTEN electronic Trans-European Networks.

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Electronic health services without borders

EU Member States and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway have adopted a common declaration on their commitment to pursue structured cooperation on cross-border electronic health services across Europe.

"By adopting today's Declaration, we seek to ensure that, in the future, electronic health services for Europe's citizens do not stop at national borders," said the German State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Klaus Theo Schröder.

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New version of CareXML Data migration solution announced

Stalis Ltd, leaders in the provision of information and data management solutions to the NHS and private healthcare organisations, announce a new release of their market leading CareXML® data migration, cleansing and reporting platform.

CareXML® is already established within NPfIT as the most advanced solution for extracting data from any legacy system, cleansing the data and migrating the data to the Care Record Service (CRS).

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Common 2007 eHealth Declaration

At 18-19 April 2007 eHealth Conference, representatives of European Union Member States and members of the European Economic Area adopted a common Declaration. The representatives agreed to pursue close interaction and collaboration in the area of cross-border electronic health services throughout Europe. The representatives agreed to pursue close interaction and collaboration in the area of cross-border electronic health services throughout Europe.

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