Wireless and mobile applications are a fact of life for other industries. So why not healthcare? On 7-8 December 2006, at the Hilton Canary Wharf, London, Mobilising the Clinician brings together world-leading experts eager to share their wealth of experience, knowledge and passion in the mobile health arena.

eHealth: Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics to the Edge

eHealth Competence Center Regensburg,
December 2-5, 2007

The grand prize winner of the Best IST Project Website Award, sponsored by Nokia, is the HUMAINE project.

The Grand Prize of €10,000 was declared grand prize winner from among three winners by Mr Fabio Colasanti of the European Commission, accompanied by Mr. Erkki Ormala, Vice President of Technology Policy at Nokia, at the IST 2006 Closing Ceremony.

The @Health Brokerage Event is the second dissemination event organized within the @Health project (IST-015886) which will be organized in Madrid, Spain next 8th and 9th of February.

The world's largest medical fair MEDICA plus ComPaMED, the leading international trade fair for upstream supplies in medical production, have impressively confirmed their position as the global hub in the medical sector.

On 15-16 January 2007, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will host a national kick-off event in the Internationales Kongresszentrum Bundeshaus Bonn (IKBB) to launch the 7th EU Research Framework Programme.

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.