eHealthNews.EU Portal Digest

eHealthNews.EU Portal Digest

ICT Policy Support Programme Info Day
A launch event for the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) will be
organised on 24 May 2007 in Brussels. This event corresponds to the
opening of the first call for proposals of the ICT PSP. The draft
agenda of this event and details of the venue are now available.
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eHealth Policy Seminar
Regions - The Key-players in delivering eHealth: What can the "e" do
for your region?
This event will take place in Brussels, 11 May 2007, and will be
delivered by the eHealth Workgroup of the IANIS+ Project.
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EU project develops intelligent wheelchair
Researchers in MAIA, an EU funded project, have shown how a person can
control, using only their brain, the wheelchair on which they are
sitting.
This requires tapping into the person's neural network, interpreting
the cerebral signals in real time and then developing a mechanism that
could respond to these instructions and steer the wheelchair with a
high degree of accuracy.
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International Symposium on Biomedical Informatics in Europe
25-27 June 2007, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Spain.
The symposium is organised by the Research Unit on Biomedical
Informatics (GRIB) and the European Networks of Excellence INFOBIOMED
and SEMANTIC MINING. It aims to serve as a forum to present the
results obtained and discuss the current hot topics in Biomedical
Informatics.
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EU-US eHealth Policy Workshop
May 10, 2007, Brussels, Marriott Brussels Hotel - Rue Orts, 3-7.
This one-day workshop will focus on interoperability, certification
and improving patient safety and healthcare quality through IT.
Panelists and robust open discussions will focus on those areas where
Transatlantic collaboration could prove mutually beneficial. High-
level speakers from EU institutions and Member State governments, the
US government, academia and industry will address issues related to
standardization, best practices & lessons learned, and policy
harmonization. Ample discussion time will be provided during the Q&A
sessions.
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Lille Regional University Hospital (CHRU) signs the agreement with
Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow
and diagnostic imaging solutions, announces that the Lille Regional
Teaching University hospital (CHRU) has chosen its IMPAX(TM) RIS
solution for the first stage of its IRIS-project (Intégration du
Réseau d'Images au Système d'information hospitalier), aimed at
integrating the imaging network into the hospital's IT system. CHRU
Lille is France's fourth largest Regional Teaching Hospital, caring
for nearly 1 million patients annually.
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Successful EU support: MobilAlarm device available at the market
As of May 2007, the mobile emergency device that was tested in the
international project MobilAlarm will be marketed. empirica co-
ordinated this project from April 2004 to August 2005. The European
Commission supported MobilAlarm in the framework of its programme eTEN
electronic Trans-European Networks.
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Electronic health services without borders
EU Member States and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway have adopted a
common declaration on their commitment to pursue structured
cooperation on cross-border electronic health services across Europe.
"By adopting today's Declaration, we seek to ensure that, in the
future, electronic health services for Europe's citizens do not stop
at national borders," said the German State Secretary at the Federal
Ministry of Health, Dr Klaus Theo Schröder.
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New version of CareXML Data migration solution announced
Stalis Ltd, leaders in the provision of information and data
management solutions to the NHS and private healthcare organisations,
announce a new release of their market leading CareXML® data
migration, cleansing and reporting platform.
CareXML® is already established within NPfIT as the most advanced
solution for extracting data from any legacy system, cleansing the
data and migrating the data to the Care Record Service (CRS).
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Common 2007 eHealth Declaration
At 18-19 April 2007 eHealth Conference, representatives of European
Union Member States and members of the European Economic Area adopted
a common Declaration. The representatives agreed to pursue close
interaction and collaboration in the area of cross-border electronic
health services throughout Europe. The representatives agreed to
pursue close interaction and collaboration in the area of cross-border
electronic health services throughout Europe.
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Ruslan David, MD
eHealthNews.EU Portal & eHealth Directory EU
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