Getting ready for FP7 - workshop in Paris
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The workshop will provide a practical approach and tools to help formalise applications and design budgets. The full implications of the contract with the Commission will be discussed, and attendees will also be offered tips on how best to manage their partnerships and optimise their initiatives.
FP7 workshop. Rome, Italy
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The course is aimed at preparing those interested in participating in an FP7 project. It will provide an overview of the structure, content and instruments of the research programme, as well strategies for successful participation.
ICT in FP7 - opportunities for UK participants
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The UK National Contact Point will organise a conference on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), with a specific focus on information and communication technologies (ICT), on 18 July in London.
The event will provide an early opportunity to gain an understanding of the current status of FP7 in the ICT context and the crucial differences which are emerging between it and FP6.
IMIA HIS Working Conference
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IMIA HIS Working Conference hosted by INA, Instituto Nacional de Administração in cooperation with IMIA WG Telematics in Healthcare
Palácio dos Marqueses de Pombal
Oeiras â Portugal
July 2-4, 2006
Computers and Technology-A Driver for Nursing and Midwifery Innovation
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Location: Clarion Hotel, Sligo, Ireland
The Nursing and Midwifery Planning and Development Unit (NMPDU) â HSE West is hosting the above national conference in response to the on-going interest shown by nurses and midwives in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) and how it will impact on future patient care, nurse education and planning for managers.
Hi-tech initiative aims to help doctors treat brain tumours
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The technology will give medical staff access to the results of hi-tech scans and laboratory tests gathered from across Europe and will enable them to respond more effectively to new cases of this disease which is notoriously hard to treat. The unprecedented access which the HealthAgents initiative affords will be of particular benefit to the many children and young adults who develop these tumours.
Tackling breast cancer on the road
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The fully digital mammography system Mammomat Novation by Siemens Medical Solutions has now been approved for mobile screening. For the first time, breast cancer screenings are performed with digital systems built into trailer trucks. The trailers are connected to a stationary screening center where the final diagnosis is made. This type of mobile digital breast cancer screening is especially suitable for women living in rural communities or those who are more homebound than before. In Germany, women between 50 and 69 years of age are entitled to free mammography examinations every other year.
EU-US summit ushers in new opportunities for research cooperation
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6th Nordic Conference on eHealth and Telemedicine
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August 31 - September 1, 2006Helsinki, Finland
The very first Nordic Conference on Telemedicine took place in Finland in 1996 at the time when telemedicine was an emerging discipline. Since then, the conference has rotated biannually in all the Nordic Countries, which have been the early pioneers in healthcare ICT development. The event has also given a basis for the Nordic Telemedicine Association, which was founded to foster co-operation in the field of telehealth as a federation of national organisations.
ICW Reconvenes Key E-Health Opinion Leaders for US Advisory Board Meeting
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A leading international healthcare IT provider, InterComponentWare (ICW), has held its second meeting with its U.S. Advisory Board, which represents over a dozen national key opinion leaders in the healthcare and E-Health technology industries. ICW continues its strategic commitment to bring groundbreaking solutions from the European Union and deliver innovative tools to the U.S. E-Health market that empower consumer driven healthcare.