eHealthNews.EU Portal Digest

eHealthNews.EU Portal Digest

German XING Medical IT Community is Growing
German XING directory of business contacts is getting more and more
popular by offering well tailored services for its registered members.
A very promising and in continuous development in this context is the
German XING Medical IT (Medizin - IT) Forum which now has more then
1000 valued Healthcare IT contacts coming from business, research and
educational areas.
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CASCOM Demonstrated Innovative Research, Results and Techniques
The essential approach of CASCOM is the innovative inter-disciplinary
combination of intelligent agent, Semantic Web, P2P, and mobile
computing technology. Conventional peer-to-peer computing environments
are extended with components for mobile and wireless communication.
Semantic Web services are provided by peer software agents which
exploit the CASCOM coordination infrastructure to efficiently operate
in highly dynamic environments.
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PhD/MD Research Studentship at The Research Training Network INTACT
The Research Training Network INTACT is a multi-disciplinary network
of 9 partners from 8 European countries (Germany, France, Czech
Republic, UK, Hungary, Portugal, The Netherlands, Switzerland) which
aims to improve health care for women with eating disorders.
INTACT will research and develop individually tailored treatment and
stepped care interventions based around risk and maintaining factors,
and the processes of getting well and staying well. The network will
use a wide range of methodologies spanning genetics, neurobiology,
psycholinguistics, psychotherapy process and mental health service
research to internet and communication technology.
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Lithuanian eHealth Strategy Project Aproved
ePractice.eu portal announced that the Lithuanian eHealth Strategy
Project for 2007-2015 has just been approved by the eHealth
Development Coordination Board, meeting at the Ministry of Health.
The eHealth Strategy Project aims to improve healthcare services by
maintaining the quality and continuity of patient-orientated services,
using information and communication technologies.
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Call for Chapters - Handbook of Research in Nursing and Clinical
Informatics
Proposals Submission Deadline: September 15, 2007
Full Chapters Due: January 15, 2008
A book edited by: Roland Staudinger, Herwig Ostermann, Bettina
Staudinger
Institute of Medical Law, Human Resources and Health Politics
University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology,
Hall/Tyrol, Austria
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Call for Submissions - CeHR: International Conference 2007
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
eHealth: Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical
Engineering and Bioinformatics to the Edge
eHealth Competence Center Regensburg, December 2-5, 2007
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RSLSTEEPER adds doc@HOME as a natural extension for telehealth
solutions
RSLSTEEPER, the largest supplier of Prosthetic and Orthotic patient
care services in the UK, has teamed up with healthcare solutions
provider, Docobo, to provide clients with doc@HOME, an integrated
telehealth solution for the remote management of patients with chronic
diseases or long term health conditions such as chronic heart failure,
diabetes and hypertension.
Docobo is the leading UK telehealth organisation that designs,
develops and manufactures products supporting the management of
patients in their own homes.
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Publishing, nanotech and universities: Portuguese priorities
Portugal hopes to stimulate initiatives in three key areas during its
stint in the EU's Presidency seat: publishing and scientific
information; nanosciences and nanotechnologies; reform and
modernisation of universities.
Setting the scene for its Presidency, the Portuguese Government
states: "We know that globally, the European Union has not yet reached
the goal of 1% public investment in R&D, or the 2% of private
investment in R&D.
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The third successive European eGovernment Awards
The third successive European eGovernment Awards, organised by the
European Commission, have this year received 311 cases from 32 of the
34 eligible European countries.
Together with the forthcoming Ministerial eGovernment Conference in
Lisbon (PT), the Awards revolve around four main themes relating to
ICT: "Better public services for growth and jobs"; "Participation and
transparency"; "Social impact and cohesion" and "Effective and
efficient administration".
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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.
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Ruslan David, MD
eHealthNews.EU Portal & eHealth Directory EU
Administrator/Editor
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