Special Session in IASTED BioMED 2008 - Advances in Medical Decision Support Systems
February 13 – 15, 2008
Innsbruck, Austria

Innsbruck is nestled in the valley of the Inn River and tucked between the Austrian Alps and the Tuxer mountain range. It has twice hosted the Winter Olympics and is surrounded by the eight ski regions of the Olympic Ski World, including the Stubai Glacier, which offers skiing year round.

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 than 1000 valued Healthcare IT contacts coming from business, research and educational areas.

eHealth: Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics to the Edge

eHealth Competence Center Regensburg,
December 2-5, 2007

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.

The ScanBalt Forum 2007 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 4-5 October, 2007. The focus of this year's event will be science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship.

The focus of ScanBalt Forum 2007 lies on science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship, a field of distinction for Göteborg region.

25-28 June 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
e-Infrastructures are key tools of knowledge generation, leading to qualitative leaps in scientific research and giving birth to whole new sciences. By connecting the knowledge of researchers across the world, eInfrastructures enable dramatic results, from Physics to Humanities and Medicine to Media, which were unthinkable just a few years ago.

Tuesday 26 June 2007, 15:00 – 16:00 Central European Summer Time
June HIMSS EMEA eSeminar on "How can ICT improve patient safety and quality of care?". Dr. Veli Stroetmann, empirica Communication & Technology Research, Germany and Dr. Jean-Pierre Thierry, Symbion, France conducted a study for the European Commission on the impact of ICT on patient safety and risk management in healthcare, entitled "eHealth for Safety".