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The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition 2008 (WoHIT 2008) has been designed for and by the healthcare ICT community in the European region including: technology end users, vendors, providers and policy makers. Addressing the perspectives of clinicians, directors and other healthcare professionals, The World of Health ICT Conference & Exhibition offers:

26th June, 2008
9:30 AM UK / 10:30 AM Central Europe
Is it a challenge to understand and communicate the benefits of mobile point of care technologies within your organization? Is your team trying to build a holistic business case, including the financial and clinical benefits, using quantitative data?

2-3 September, 2008
National Cancer Institute (NCI-US) and National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI-UK)
Join leaders from the United States, United Kingdom, and beyond for a two-day conference on the critical importance of information technology to biomedical research.

September 8th and 9th, 2008
City University, London EC1
The provision of healthcare supported by electronic processes and communication is an area that is expanding almost exponentially. E-Health is a field that embraces medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies.

Medical research at crossroads: combining the power of Information and Communication Technologies with Biomedical Sciences
The ICT BIO 2008 Conference, October 23-24, 2008, will provide an insight into existing and future prospects on integrative research for complex human diseases at European and international levels.

The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Public Health and Primary Care Research will hold a Seminar on eHealth Research on June 2nd, 2008 at the Queen's Medical Research Institute, Little France, Edinburgh. This eHealth Seminar will highlight the interdisciplinary and translational nature of current eHealth projects at the Centre for Public Health and Primary Care Research and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and highlight the future potential of eHealth in delivering improved healthcare outcomes.

The special ePractice.eu Mid-Term workshop held on Monday 19 in Brussels was a great success. A total of 82 members of the online community participated in the event, which counted with the presence of several high-level experts who delivered key note speeches and EC officials responsible of the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth policies, amongst them the Heads of Unit David Broster, Gérard Comyn and Karel De Vriendt.