Events

Call for Papers - Workshop on Semantic Web in Ubiquitous Healthcare

November 12, 2007, Busan, Korea
The main focus of this workshop is on providing an overview of existing ubiquitous care platforms and elaborating on how semantic web technologies can impinge on such existing efforts.

Ubiquitous healthcare refers to an emerging paradigm that is gradually reshaping the old "patient-seeing-doctor" scenario into one in which health services and information (e.g. clinical advices and warning, patient status monitoring and feedback, etc.) become just "one-click" away.

ScanBalt Forum 2007

The ScanBalt Forum 2007 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 4-5 October, 2007. The focus of this year's event will be science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship.

The focus of ScanBalt Forum 2007 lies on science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship, a field of distinction for Göteborg region.

BELIEF-EELA Conference on e-Infrastructures

25-28 June 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
e-Infrastructures are key tools of knowledge generation, leading to qualitative leaps in scientific research and giving birth to whole new sciences. By connecting the knowledge of researchers across the world, eInfrastructures enable dramatic results, from Physics to Humanities and Medicine to Media, which were unthinkable just a few years ago.

eSeminar on patient safety - register now for free

Tuesday 26 June 2007, 15:00 16:00 Central European Summer Time
June HIMSS EMEA eSeminar on "How can ICT improve patient safety and quality of care?". Dr. Veli Stroetmann, empirica Communication & Technology Research, Germany and Dr. Jean-Pierre Thierry, Symbion, France conducted a study for the European Commission on the impact of ICT on patient safety and risk management in healthcare, entitled "eHealth for Safety".

Where radiologists speak about their technology experiences

RadioTalk is a new web based live broadcasting program that invites Radiologists from across the globe to share their views about how to best implement technology into their individual workflows. The program is provided through Agfa HealthCare and is open to all Radiologists, related clinicians and medical staff. An extended Q&A capability will be available for immediate live discussion.

Personal Health Systems 2007 - Conference Report

For almost a decade the European Commission activities in eHealth have supported a vision of person-centric healthcare systems - a vision that breaks away from the current way of delivering healthcare.

This vision is best expressed by the so-called Personal Health Systems (PHS). PHS represent a new generation of eHealth systems in the form of, for example, wearable and portable systems and tools in the hands of patients (or citizens).

Best Practices in Implementing Chronic Care Programmes in Europe

3-4 December, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Following the notable success of the World Health Care Congress Europe, World Congress presents the European Leadership Summit on Chronic Care - global best practices in implementing chronic care programmes.

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