Everyone has the right to quality healthcare and it must be affordable. At the same time there is a continuous need for better quality healthcare. People are living longer, and this means that the cost of healthcare is rising. ICT makes it possible to meet all of these requirements. ICT is important for health education, preventing illness and for making treatments safer.
It enables patients to participate in their own treatment, and medical treatments can be individually adapted to each patient. ICT introduces new and advanced techniques that cover everything from the molecular level to the whole body. The use of ICT in modelling and simulation is resulting in a new generation of predictive medicine. This way, ICTs can radically improve the quality and efficiency of our healthcare systems.
You can have more information about ICT in healthcare and see demonstrations of the technology at the exhibition.
Conference Sessions
- ICT and Ageing - Accessible and Inclusive ICT (Room Oulu, 22/11/2006, 14.00-15.30)
- Virtual Physiological Human (Room Lappeenranta, 22/11/2006, 9.00-10.30)
Chairman: Gérard COMYN - Personal Health Systems for Monitoring and Point-of-Care diagnostics - Advanced ICT for Risk Assessment and Patient Safety (Room Oulu, 22/11/2006, 16.00-17.30)
Chairman: Gérard COMYN
Exhibits
In the Finnish Pavilion zone:
- A Fitness System That Makes Sense
- AinoActive Oy: Corporate wellness
- Bone Exercise Monitor
- Quick, Reliable and Valid Tests for Postural Balance
- Advanced Sensors for Measuring Attention Stress, Vigilance and Wakefulness
- Applications of Advanced Collaboration Software in E-health and E-justice
- Closed Loop Insulin Infusion for Critically Ill Patients
- GRID technologies for Biomedical applications
- Human Monitoring and Authentication using Biodynamic Indicators and Behavioural Analysis
- Intra-oral Diagnostic and Therapeutic Intelligent Devices
- Mobile assistance for reliable medication ensuring quality of life
Networking
Networking Sessions
- Emerging eHealth technologies, cross-cutting RTD needs and health policy priorities (Room 208, 22/11/2006, 14.00-15.30)
- Improving Patient Safety â Countering the risk of medical errors through e-Traceability (Room 308, 21/11/2006, 14.00-15.30)
- Intelligent Proactive Personal Healthcare Systems (Room 210, 22/11/2006, 9.00-10.30)
- How can ICT improve Healthcare? Research topics for FP7 (Room 209, 23/11/2006, 9.00-10.30)
- A roadmap towards a European HealthGrid (Room 218, 23/11/2006, 11.00-12.30)
- Biomedical informatics for optimised treatment of infectious diseases (Rooms 301-302, 22/11/2006, 11.00-12.30)
For further information, please visit: IST Event 2006 web site.