A mini symposium on telenursing will be part of this year's Med-e-Tel. Telenursing is defined by the International Council of Nurses as "the use of telecommunications technology in nursing to enhance patient care". A growing application, telenursing offers possibilities to reduce the use of expensive healthcare services, to reduce hospital admissions or length of stay, to perform regular check-ups on patients with chronic conditions, to spread limited resources over a large population, and to increase access to nurse education.

Mobility for All - The Use of Ambient Intelligence in Addressing the Mobility Needs of People with Impairments: The Case of ASK-IT
Nuremberg, Germany, 26-27 June, 2008
The second International conference of ASK-IT marks the end of this EU research funded project. The conference will provide the opportunity to see and test the ASK-IT service and products that have been developed.

The European Commission is organising an open meeting in Brussels on 12 February 2008 on "European ICT standardisation policy at a crossroad: A new direction for global success". Mr Günter Verheugen, the Commission Vice-President responsible for Enterprise and Industry will open the conference.

Planning for Med-e-Tel 2008, the sixth edition of the global telemedicine and ehealth meeting, is well underway and program details will be posted shortly on the event website. The call for abstracts has just been closed and has resulted in a record breaking number of submissions for the conference program.

Lakeside Conference Centre, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Tuesday 4 March 2008
This event aims to cover all aspects of electronic patient-discharge summaries and focus on integration between primary and secondary healthcare providers.

An information meeting in support of the 2008 ICT-PSP programme pilot on 'total conversation' 14h00, 30th January 2008, Avenue de Beaulieu 25, room S1, 1160 Brussels.
The ICT for Inclusion unit of the European Commission is organising an information meeting on "Total Conversation" and on "E-Accessible Emergency Services".

Discussing innovative solutions and new technologies, pooling strengths to tackle new challenges - the key purposes of AFHdialogTAGE, the Asklepios Future Hospital (AFH) Conference. The two-day specialist conference will be held in Berlin on January 28 and 29, 2008.