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.

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.

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".

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.

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).

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.

Oldenburg, Germany, October 11 - 12, 2007
eHealth refers to the use of digital information and communication technologies to meet the needs of citizens, patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, and policy makers. Interactive health communication channels like the Internet have multiple potential benefits for the public, such as access to general and individualized health information on web sites. Support for health decision-making processes for prevention, diagnosis, and disease management is also possible.