Driven by the gradually aging population, increasing health consciousness and an unbroken chain of innovations, the global market for medical products and medical technology has retained its status as a growth market. The experts agree in their forecasts and are predicting a solid annual growth of 10 percent until 2015.

Panasonic Toughbook is launching the world's first Intel Atom-based mobile clinical device (MCA) at the World of Health IT Conference (WoHIT 2008), 4-6 November 2008 in Copenhagen. Designed by clinicians for clinicians, this next generation product will revolutionise the healthcare market and enhance front-line patient care.

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16 October, 2008, 2 PM UKT / 3 PM Central Europe
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The need for improvements in the quality of patient care has never been greater. To deliver significant advances, healthcare personnel need reliable access to patient information, hospital services and each other - anytime, anywhere.

28 June - 1 July 2009, Helsinki, Finland.
The following topics are intended to guide the authors in the directions emphasized by the 10th Congress. They are consistent with the central theme of Nursing Informatics - Connecting Health and Humans in support of nursing informatics practice, management education and research.

9 October 2008, Brussels, Belgium
Following the success and interest of the first OpenDays Health Village in 2007, the Information Society and Media DG and the Health and Consumers DG of the European Commission, EUREGHA and COCIR are organizing a second edition of this event.

CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI, the three European Standards Organizations (ESOs) announce the launch of the joint project eHEALTH-INTEROP, which will address the requirements of the European Commission mandate on standardization in the field of eHealth. The project team invites all stakeholders to a Webinar on Thursday the 2nd of October 2008 from 15.00 till 16.30 CET on the draft eHealth Standards Mandate report recently issued for public comment until October 22nd.

April 1-3, 2009, Luxembourg, G. D. of Luxembourg
Med-e-Tel 2009 invites to join its Educational and Information Program of interactive seminars on eHealth, telemedicine and all possible ICT applications in medicine. Organized by Luxexpo and supported by wide range of national and international associations and institutions, this three day meeting brings together leading specialists to present recent achievements and developments in the field.