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Donating computer power to fight malaria

Help scientists tackle malaria by volunteering your...computer! CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is calling on people worldwide to donate some of the spare capacity on their home and business computers in order to run Malaria.net, a computer model for malaria epidemiology. The model aims to help improve the ability of researchers to predict, and hence control, the spread of malaria in Africa.

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MIE 2006 Invitation

On behalf of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI), I am pleased to invite you to attend the 20th International Congress of the EFMI in the Netherlands - MIE 2006. Approximately 500 ICT health scientists from all over Europe are expected to meet in the MECC Congress Centre in Maastricht from 27 – 30 August 2006.

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Call for papers: ISePHR 2006 - International Symposium on Electronic Personal Health Records

28th of September 2006,
Trondheim, Norway
Paper, poster and demo submission deadline 13th of August, 2006

Common and widespread Internet access changes the relationship between patients and health care providers, both in areas with well-developed and less developed care systems. The future of efficient healthcare relies on the competent, informed and self-caring patient.

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Helping robots cope with uncertainty

Robots are getting smarter all the time, and are now able to perform highly complex activities, yet there are still large numbers of tasks which are second nature to humans but leave robots largely stumped. For example, we are able to recognise someone we know in a large crowd, even if they are wearing sunglasses and a hat. In contrast robots would simply be unable to carry out this task, as they are ill equipped to handle unpredictable situations where they do not have full knowledge.

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eHIT leverages mobile technologies to enhance remote self-care services

eHIT Health Gateway platform offers a mobile solution to collect measurements directly from the measuring devices and seamlessly transfer the collected data to the healthcare personnel for further analysis. According to the type of monitoring instrument used, measured data are easily transferred to the patient's mobile device via Bluetooth, infrared or cable connection.

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International HL7 Interoperability Conference IHIC 2006

August 24-25, 2006,
Cologne, Germany

The conference is formerly known as the International Affiliates Meeting and after we have met in Dresden (Germany) in 2000, then Reading (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Daegu (Korea), Acapulco (Mexico) and last year in Taipei (Taiwan) we will now meet late August in Cologne.

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eHeathNews.EU "What is e-health?" Poll Results

One of the first eHealthNews.EU Portal published articles was "What is e-health?" by Gunther Eysenbach, Journal of Medical Internet Research. By being based on this article we decided to create for our visitors a Pool with title "What is eHealth?" in order to strengthen the Author opinion, and to spread his "The 10 e's in eHealth" view.

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The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition - Early registration ends on 17 July

10-13 October 2006, Geneva, Switzerland

The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition promises to be a first of its kind event, attracting leaders and experts in health IT from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

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FP7 to strengthen support for pan-European research infrastructures

EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik has provided details of how the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will continue to support the development of integrated research infrastructures of pan European interest.

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Mining biotech's data mother lode

A EU-sponsored project has developed a suite of tools that will enable biotech companies to mine through vast quantities of data created by modern life-science labs to find the nuggets of genetic gold that lie within.

The BioGrid project brought together six partners from the UK, Germany, Cyprus and The Netherlands to address one of the key problems facing the life sciences today.

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