In order to offer a series of seminars on hot topics, HIMSS EMEA has increased the variety of content to our programme with two eSeminars per month: twice the opportunity to learn about the latest developments and interact with peer and colleagues from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa! These low-cost eSeminars offer a high quality educational value to help develop in-depth knowledge on hot topics and choose the most appropriate sessions.

Lancaster Workshops 1-4 Oct 2007, a Series of Events organised by the European Network of Excellence in Design for Micro & Nano Manufacture (PATENT-DfMM) and the Europractice Technology Access Initiative INTEGRAMplus.

Despite its significant market expectations for a vast area of applications, many microsystems (MST, MEMS) still face key manufacturing challenges in guaranteeing stability, robustness and associated reliability within the target working environment.

The 1st World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition took place in Geneva in 2006 and was a great success. But the 2nd one, taking place 22-25 October in Vienna, Austria, promises to be even better.

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

Participation in the Ministerial eGovernment Conference 2007 is by invitation only and the number of participants is limited. ePractice.eu Portal offers the opportunity to be invited simply by participating more on the portal development and knowledge sharing.

The ePractice.eu Portal will reward 50 of its most active members with invitations to the Lisbon Ministerial eGovernment Conference 2007 that takes place between the 19th and 21st of September in Lisbon.

The CEN/ISSS e-Business Interoperability Forum will hold its third annual conference under the title: "Accelerating process improvement and innovation via e-Business standards" on 15 and 16 November 2007 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

The main thread for the conference links up with actualities: Standards and Interoperability in 'e-Invoicing' and 'e-Procurement'.

Wilhelm Niedergöker, Managing Director at Messe Düsseldorf GmbH
The desire to stay healthy as long as possible has driven mankind since time immemorial. Innovative diagnostics and therapies ensure that this desire can be fulfilled increasingly frequently. Caught between patients' expectations, remunerative demands of medical care providers and the cost-cutting efforts undertaken by paying bodies, the medical profession constantly struggles for viable compromises yet the benefit of modern medical device technology is undisputed.

A special event on Telemedicine and eHealth (TELEMED) will be organized during ICDS 2008, The Second International Conference on the Digital Society
February 10-15, 2008, Sainte Luce, Martinique.

TELEMED Special Event welcomes technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions, short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.