Industry

Trustworthy Handwritten Signatures

SOFTPRO and selected partners are introducing a new product for protecting doctors and hospitals from unnecessary costs while streamlining hospital operations: Electronic Patient Information Documentation using a tablet PC and secured with biometric handwritten signatures.

The signature is the most popular and trusted biometric feature for authentication as it is never given accidentally. It actively proves the signer's intent, which is significantly different from the use of passive biometrics - body characteristics such as finger, hand, face or iris.

The 1st Conference on Collaborative Working Environments for Business and Industry

May 10-11 2006, Brussels

In March 2000, the European Union agreed on a political vision aimed at making the EU the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. The 'Lisbon Strategy' has reached half time with mixed results, leading to a renewed strategy focusing on 'delivering stronger and lasting growth and creating more and better jobs'. The revitalised strategy relates strongly to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), specifically in the i2010 vision â radically modernising and deploying the EU policy instruments to encourage the development of the digital economy â and in the upcoming Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research and technological development (2007-2013).

UK outlines medium-term technology strategies

The UK is setting up 'innovation platforms' in areas identified in a recent report as key to developing the UK's position in the international arena.

Europe INNOVA goes public

Europe INNOVA, the flagship initiative driving European innovation, is placing its activities in the spotlight with a new web portal. This will provide policy makers, innovation intermediaries and enterprises with an insight into sectoral innovation analysis and networking in Europe.

IST 2006 - Strategies for Leadership

This year's edition of the most important European event in the field of Information Society Technologies will coincide with the launch of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development.

Saving time with Cardio MR (CMR)

At the spring meeting of the German Association for Cardiology (DGK), Siemens Medical Solutions presented a new software tool for magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) especially developed for application in cardiology. In the clinical routine, syngo BEAT reduces MR examinations of the heart to a few mouse clicks â even for patients suffering from arrhythmia. As a result, syngo BEAT provides for faster and more accurate diagnostics and increases efficiency in cardiology.