Ubiquitous healthcare refers to an emerging paradigm that is gradually reshaping the old "patient-seeing-doctor" scenario into one in which health services and information (e.g. clinical advices and warning, patient status monitoring and feedback, etc.) become just "one-click" away.
The ScanBalt Forum 2007 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 4-5 October, 2007. The focus of this year's event will be science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship.
The focus of ScanBalt Forum 2007 lies on science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship, a field of distinction for Göteborg region.
Tuesday 26 June 2007, 15:00 16:00 Central European Summer Time
For almost a decade the European Commission activities in eHealth have supported a vision of person-centric healthcare systems - a vision that breaks away from the current way of delivering healthcare.
This vision is best expressed by the so-called Personal Health Systems (PHS). PHS represent a new generation of eHealth systems in the form of, for example, wearable and portable systems and tools in the hands of patients (or citizens).
3-4 December, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands