The special ePractice.eu Mid-Term workshop held on Monday 19 in Brussels was a great success. A total of 82 members of the online community participated in the event, which counted with the presence of several high-level experts who delivered key note speeches and EC officials responsible of the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth policies, amongst them the Heads of Unit David Broster, Gérard Comyn and Karel De Vriendt.

Friday 30 May 2008
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
TeleHealth describes the delivery of health-related services over a distance using information and communications technologies. It is expected that such services will help European health systems to better cope with, e.g., growing demands arising from an ageing population, increasing consumerism, or limited supply of funding.

Krakow 17th June 2008, Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Sw. Anny 12 St., 31-008 Krakow, Poland.
London 20th June 2008, King's Building; King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.

The 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2008) will be held on June 17-19, 2008 at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. CBMS 2008 is held in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committee on Computational Medicine, TCCM) and the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä.

21-23 May, 2008, Espace Grande Arche, Paris, France
This event at Hitachi's INSPIRE LIFE Exhibition aims to bring the Medical community, and those interested in this increasingly debated subject, together to discuss key issues affecting the quality and efficiency of care given to patients.

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The potential offered by eHealth, and the evidence of its success, has long been clearly identified. Since 2003, with the creation of a series of eHealth conferences - of which this is the sixth - various Ministerial and high-level groups, together with the European Commission, have agreed to making Declarations and conference conclusions with a focus on eHealth.

On Tuesday June 10, 2008, ICMCC and the BCS Health Informatics Interactive Care Specialist Group will host a panel discussion on: The web-based personal health record - supporting individuals in making informed choices.