This year, the VHitG (Association of Manufacturers of IT Solutions for Health Care) and Messe Düsseldorf will again be organising their joint forum "MEDICA meet.IT – The Forum" from Wednesday to Friday within the context of the world's largest medical fair MEDICA in Düsseldorf (15 until 18 November 2006).

A major challenge for the coming years is to address the unique ICT aspects of the life sciences in an integrated way. Life science research present the need to access, analyse, protect & share massive quantities of diverse, geographically distributed information, computationally intensive analysis techniques and rapidly evolving medicine, science & technology.

24th to 27th of April, 2007
HealthGrid 2007 is the fifth annual conference dedicated to grids for life science and healthcare. The goal of the conference is to give an opportunity to all stakeholders to review the status of the grid technology and to evaluate the progress made in the development and deployment of grid applications for life sciences, medical research and healthcare.

1st World Congress of Teledermatology & Annual Meeting of the Austrian Scientific Society of Telemedicine
November 9-11, 2006, Graz, Austria
Dermatology as a morphologically oriented medical speciality is eminently suited to utilize the possibilities of modern technology for the transmission of visual data and images.

When? ES12 on Wednesday, 11 October, 11:15-12:15. "eHealth IMPACT: Measuring the Economic Value of ICT in Healthcare", by Tom Jones and Alexander Dobrev
Where? European Commission booth at the Partners Pavilion (4)

Call for Participation
If Health Informatics is to meet the challenges and advance its role, it must publicise new solutions and creative ideas. YOU are invited to contribute to this body of knowledge and/or submit a proposal or topic that you believe HC2007 should feature in its programme.

5-7 November 2006 Brussels, Belgium
This event aims to contribute to the strategic development of a common European approach to the human physiome. It will provide an opportunity for the Community at large to join in the discussions related to that strategy, and to influence the course that the development will ultimately take.