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eHealth Newsletter - 06/09/2010

6 September 2010
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
HEALTHINF 2011: International Conference on Health Informatics

26 January 2011 - 29 January 2011 Rome, Italy

The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare medicine in general and to the specialized support to person with special needs in particular. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, standardization of technologies and procedures, certification, privacy are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry in general need to address in order to further promote ICT in healthcare. In the case of medical rehabilitation and assistive technology the use of ICT has had important results in the enhancement of the quality of life, contributing to a full integration of all citizens in the societies they are also part of.

Contact: healthinf.secretariat@insticc.org
See also: http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
REMINDER: 4th International Advanced Research Workshop on In Silico Oncology and Cancer Investigation

8 September 2010 - 9 September 2010 Athens, Greece

The finalized program of the 4th International Advanced Research Workshop on In Silico Oncology and Cancer Investigation (4th IARWISOCI), being also the ContraCancrum project Workshop, has been uploaded on the workshop website

Contact: gestam@central.ntua.gr
See also: ICT for Health - ContraCancrum project

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
eChallenges e-2010 Conference & Exhibition

27 October 2010 - 29 October 2010 Warsaw, Poland

Twentieth in a series of annual technology research conferences supported by the European Commission, this conference regularly attracts over 650 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt and good practice in areas of applied Information Communication Technologies (ICT). The 3-day programme features an invigorating mix of business and government case studies, technical and policy papers and interactive workshops. As well as opening and closing plenary sessions, delegates may participate in over 50 thematically focused parallel session featuring different aspects of Networked Enterprise, eGovernment and eDemocracy, Collaborative Working Environments, Living Labs, eHealth, Intelligent Content, Technology Enhanced Learning, eInfrastructures and Security and Identity Management. The Advance Programme brochure is available at http://www.echallenges.org/e2010/files/e2010_AdvanceProgramme.pdf

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Come and meet eHealth projects at ICT2010 Exhibition and Networking Sessions

27 September 2010 - 29 September 2010 Brussels, Belgium

only 3 weeks to go until the ICT2010 Conference will open the doors - this mail intends to inform you of the ICT for Health projects present at the ICT2010 conference. CD-Medics, Epilepsiae, HeartCycle, Hamam, Oldes and SCATh will be exhibiting. Three eHealth related networking sessions will also take place on the following topics: Patient empowerment, EU-ASEAN Cooperation opportunities and Low-cost Imaging Technologies for Healthcare.

Contact: eHealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: eHealth Research

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
eHealth Tallinn

13 October 2010 - 15 October 2010 Tallinn, Estonia

The main purpose of the conference is to share positive and negative practical experiences encountered during the Estonian nationwide Electronic Health Record System implementation process. The conference is meant for people involved in e-health implementation through their everyday work either as service provider or at state level. During the second day the participants will be divided into small groups and they will have an opportunity to visit hospitals, IT companies, and other Estonian organisations involved in eGovernment.

NEWS ARTICLE
VPH Position paper draft open for public comments

(6 September 2010)The ARGOS initiative project (funded by the European Commission) aims to elaborate a policy brief between Europe and USA on the common methods for responding to global eHealth challenges. The overall goal of the ARGOS eHealth Pilot Project is to contribute to establishing a "Transatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges through ICT-Enabled Solutions" in order to develop and promote "Common Methods for Responding to Global eHealth Challenges in the EU and the US". Due to the potential strategic importance of this document, we are asking for and we recommend a high level high level of participation from all members of the VPH community in the revision of this draft document.

Contact: argos-vph-forum@biomedtown.org
See also: EC DGINFSO ICT for Health - VPH

NEWS ARTICLE
Statute of the VPH Institute open to public revision

(31 August 2010)The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Institute will be an European institute entirely dedicated to the Biomedical Integrative Research, whose member are all private and public institutions that are involved with VPH research and integrative biomedicine. As part of the statutory process, the draft statute of the VPH Institute, which defines among the other things its governance model, is now open for public discussion and comment within the VPH community. The Public revision of the VPH Institute draft statute will continue until September 28th, 2010. The final discussion will take place during the VPH Strategic Consensus Meeting organised by the VPH NoE in Brussels on the 29th of Sept 2010.

Contact: VPH_Institute_Public_Forum@biomedtown.org
See also: EC DGINFSO ICT for Health - VPH

NEWS ARTICLE
Biomedical research has provided medicine with a molecular, genetic, and metabolic dimension

(18 August 2010)Cutting-edge biomedical research is providing a wealth of digital data on patient anatomy, physiology, molecular genetics, biomarkers, and, last but not least, treatment effects. Information and communication technology can help to aggregate this data and create a 'virtual physiological human'; a digital model for simulating and predicting the effects of treatment, based on the specific situation of the individual patient.

Contact: eHealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: EC INFSO ICT for Health - Virtual Physiological Human

NEWS ARTICLE
More personalised and patient-centric care process

(1 September 2010)The next shift in healthcare will be towards a more personalised and patient-centric care process. Information and Communication Technologies can contribute by offering personal health systems - both for chronically ill patients and for people at risk. This is a trend the European Commission is supporting through a number of research projects.

Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: EC INFSO ICT for Health - Personal Health Systems

New in the Library

REPORTS AND STUDIES
El reto de la Telemedicina en Europa

30 July 2010

La telemedicina, o medicina a distancia, no es una idea de nuevo cuño. Ya se hablaba de ella en los primeros programas-marco financiados por la Comisión, dio lugar a múltiples ejemplos y proyectos piloto que rápidamente evidenciaron sus limitaciones, ya fuera por motivos técnicos (rendimiento de las redes y de los dispositivos médicos) o por motivos de aceptación por parte de los profesionales sanitarios. Este número especial tiene como finalidad ayudarle a analizar el desarrollo de la telemedicina en sus diferentes aspectos, en entornos diferentes. Es un conjunto de testimonios y análisis llevados a cabo por responsables políticos e industriales, por pacientes y representantes de los profesionales sanitarios, lo que nos parece el mejor modo de transmitir mensajes breves y comprensibles por todos los públicos.

Contact: dossiers.europeens@wanadoo.fr
See also: El informe puede ser comprado de la empressa "The European Files"

REPORTS AND STUDIES
European healthcare systems are among the pillars of Europe's social infrastructure

18 July 2010

The European Commission considers eHealth a lead market as defined by its Lead Market Initiative. Given the growth of the home market, European companies are well positioned to become leading providers of eHealth technologies worldwide. The key to success will be business models that acknowledge the needs of practitioners in day-to-day professional activities.

Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: EC INFSO ICT for Health studies' reports

REPORTS AND STUDIES
"The Telemedicine challenge in Europe"

2 July 2010

The aim of this special edition of "The European Files" is to help take stock of the development of telemedicine, in all its diverse forms, and in a range of different environments. It is a collection of accounts and analyses by political and industrial decision-makers, patients and professional healthcare representatives, who seem to be best-placed to communicate messages that are both brief and easily understandable to all audiences. It also aims to clarify the problems which are still holding back the development of telemedicine, and to outline a sketch of what the medicine of tomorrow might look like. Lastly, it demonstrates that only an effort on the part of all actors in medical care will be necessary in order for telemedicine to be accepted by all, and that it will be the role of the political decision-makers to ensure that interministerial mechanisms are developed in such a way as to take into account its multidisciplinary nature. (Available in EN and in ES - soon in FR).

Contact: To buy paper copies, contact the editor
See also: Previous File "eHealth in Europe"

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