12-14 June 2006

The 2006 conference is about the imagination and exploration of probable, preferable and possible futures of society and the role of eHealth and telemedicine in particular. Participants at this conference are invited to present their research and are challenged to share their views on the future of health, society and technology.

Fribourg, Switzerland
October 12 – 13, 2006

eHealth refers to the use of digital information and communication technologies to meet the needs of citizens, patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, and policy makers. Interactive health communication channels like the Internet have multiple potential benefits for the public, such as access to general and individualized health information on web sites. Support for health decision-making processes for prevention, diagnosis, and disease management is also possible. In addition, home care applications and mobile emergency call systems can be used by elderly or handicapped people at any time or place.

The Leading International Event on ICT in Medicine and Care
June 7-9, 2006
WFCC, The Hague, The Netherlands.

The ICMCC Event is the annual platform of the International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics - an international foundation aiming at being the knowledge centre for medical and care compunetics, making information on medicine and care available to patients using compunetics as well as distributing information on the use of compunetics in medicine and care to patients and professionals.

The Clinical Care Computing: Achieve Change, Deliver Value conference is to be held on Tuesday 4 July 2006 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, with pre-conference tutorials the previous day.

8-9 June 2006, Brussels (the venue will be confirmed to registered participants)

Digital Repositories are knowledge resources essential for the European Research Area much in the same way data transport network, grid computing resources or data storage are.

There is, in fact, a growing strategic relevance of Scientific Digital Repositories for Europe's objectives of a Single Information Space. Digital technologies provide the possibilities for exchanging and sharing information and knowledge and, on the other hand, massive quantities of information need to be managed to be really of use. Therefore, there is an opportunity to build in Europe a strong base of scientific and educational digital repositories as part of the European Research Infrastructure which is witnessed by the e-IRG and ESFRI roadmaps and the key initiatives in several European Member States.

Charlemagne Building, Brussels, 29-30 June 2006

The conference is organised by the European Commission DG Information Society and Media and DG Research and with the support of three roadmapping projects of DG INFSO (SYMBIOMATICS, STEP & SHARE).

The e-Newsletter Meeting the Challenges in Healthcare IT Across Communities is now online. In the run up to the inaugural World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition to be held in Geneva 10 - 13 October, an issues-based e-newsletter has been launched.