Delegates attending The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition - taking place 22-25 October in Vienna, Austria - can make the most of their time in Vienna by registering for and attending one of three targeted preconference symposia on Monday, 22 October.

Register before 21 September to benefit from pre-registration reduced rates

March 4th – 7th, 2008
In conjunction with The Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security - ARES 2008
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
As aging of the population and rising medical costs put more pressure on health and social care systems, improving the efficiency in the e-Health sector becomes increasingly important.

7-8 March 2008 Hannover, Germany
International Conference and Exhibition for ICT Solutions in the Health Sector
CeBIT is the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services sector, government agencies, science and all users passionate about technology.

September 25, 2007
Host: Dr. Meg Richman, University of California, San Diego
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, invites to join the second session of RadioTalk, a live web broadcast where Radiologists from across the globe are sharing their views on technology in radiology.

Increasingly, micro and medical technology are growing together and driving each other on to new developments. According to a survey by IVAM, the Professional Association for Microtechnology (Dortmund), medical technology is the principal target sector for European microtechnology companies, with a clear lead on the telecommunication and electronic industries. Over 43 percent of the companies asked regard medical applications as the primary focus of their marketing opportunities.

October, 7th, at MEDNET 2007, Leipzig, Germany
Information Technology is more and more influencing the daily practice in healthcare. Examples are the proliferation of electronic health records, workflow support for medical processes and therapy protocols, etc. Together with the ubiquitous availability of relevant information, information technology also found its way into emergency care - both in prehospital and in hospital emergency care.

INTEGRAMplus Workshop at the CAS Conference: Silicon / Polymer Microsystems for Life Sciences 17th October 2007, Sinaia, Romania
INTEGRAMplus brings together the complementary expertise of 10 major companies and institutes from 7 European countries to accelerate the development of novel MNT (MicroNanoTechnology) products, including consultancy, feasibility studies, design, development, prototyping and a route to production.