pHealth 2009 - The 6th international Workshop on Wearable Micro and Nanosystems

24-26 June 2009, Oslo, Norway.
This year's workshop will focus how to face the health care needs in the near future. A primary focus will be user centred development and successful implementations. Workshop participants would demonstrate successful technology implementation at hospitals and in the health care sector, and present and discuss new possibilities and solutions of tomorrow.

Keynote session includes:

  • Empowering citizens through pHealth - the European agenda
  • Personal Health Systems - roadmap towards 2020
  • Digital Soldiers: Transforming Personalized Health in Challenging and Changing Environments

Scientific Committee:

  • Andreas Lymberis, European Commission, Microsystems
  • Loukianos Gatzoulis, European Commission, eHealth
  • Danilo De Rossi, UNIPI (IT)
  • Eric McAdams, NIBEC (UK)
  • Georges Kotrotsios, CSEM (CH)
  • Nicos Maglaveras, Univ. Thessaloniki (GR)
  • Sergio Guillén & Vicente Traver, ITACA (ES)
  • Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School (US) / IEEE EMBS
  • Brian MacCraith, Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University (IE)
  • Jean Luprano, CSEM (CH)
  • Josep Roca, Hospital Clinic Barcelona (ES)

For further information and registration, please visit:
http://www.sintef.no/Projectweb/pHealth2009/

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