11 March, 15:00 – 16:00 CET
Speaker: Tom Jones, BA FCCA CPFA DMS, TanJent Consultancy
Financing eHealth investment should support and integrate the two main eHealth components: ICT and organisational change. Then, it should ensure that these are financed in full over the whole eHealth life cycle. The European Commission's (EC) eHealth Action Plan has set a firm direction for eHealth investment, which is being reflected in several Member States.

Limited Edition, Start-up March 17, 2008
The HL7 e-Learning Course is fundamentally different with regard to an exposition course. It is a web-based workshop, a set of guided exercises that teachs by practice and example, not by exposition. At the end of the course, participants should:

May 27-30, 2008
Paris Expo/Porte de Versailles/Hall 1
The business forum for all those involved in the modernisation of health care!
120 exhibitors, 7400 sq. m of exhibition space, comprehensive representation of the entire Health Information Systems sector: health professionals, manufacturers, service providers and distributors - make Hit Paris 2008 a key moment in your activity.

25-27 November, 2008, Lyon, France
The biennial ICT Event (formerly called the "IST Event") is the most important forum for discussing research and public policy in information and communication technologies at European level. The Event brings together researchers and innovators, policy and business decision-makers working in the field of digital technologies. The ICT Event:

At this year's TeleHealth exhibition and conference, which for the first time is fully integrated into the annual trade show CeBIT, diabetics will be transformed into cyber-patients, our own beds into wireless sleep laboratories, and the doctor's practice into a high-tech communications centre. Over two days, 7 and 8 March 2008, the TeleHealth show-within-a-show in Hall 8 will focus on telemedicine processes in healthcare and the latest eHealth solutions.

What future role will information technology play in the medical care of patients in hospitals and general practices? How can information technology help to reduce costs in the healthcare sector? Visitors to this year's CeBIT can find answers to these and other questions at TeleHealth 2008, which for the first time this year is being staged as an integral part of CeBIT, the world's biggest trade fair for the digital industry.

The European Congress of Radiology, the annual meeting of the European Society of Radiology, will be held March 7-11, 2008 in Vienna, Austria. With more than 17,000 participants from over 90 countries, ECR has grown into the second largest medical meeting in Europe and the second largest radiological congress worldwide.