Upcoming Events

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

eTELEMED 2010, The Second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine will be held on February 10-15, 2010 at St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. The following links are for details.

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/eTELEMED10.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPeTELEMED10.html

Submission deadline: October 5, 2009

Featuring the workshops:

- MLMB 2010: The First International Workshop on Applications of Machine Learning Techniques in Medicine and Biology

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/MLMB.html

- BUSMMed 2010: The International Workshop on Business Modeling for the Next Generation of Telemedicine Systems and Services

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/BUSMMed.html

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

eTELEMED 2010 Tracks (tracks' topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

eHealth technology and devices

eHealth data records

eHealth information processing

eHealth systems and communications

eHealth systems and emergency situations

Telemedicine/eHealth application

Telemedicine/eHealth services

Social and financial aspects

Classical medicine and eHealth integration

Preventive eHealth systems

Challenges of large-scale, cost-effective eHealth systems

Nurse team applications

Rural and wilderness eHealth

Environmental and travel telemedicine

Personalized eHealth

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Committee members: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ComeTELEMED10.html

Dutch eHealth Week 25-31 May 2009

Several organizations join to endorse the case for eHealth in the Netherlands. The eHealth Week intends to draw the attention to the opportunities for eHealth, i.e. the use of ICT in care and health by both laymen and professionals. The participating organizations feel that a better and faster implementation of proven or potential application is needed. This could contribute to solving major challenges to Dutch health care such as the ageing population, rising health costs and patient involvement.

This second Week is organized by the Dutch Association of eHealth (NVEH), the Dutch Federation of Patients and Consumer organizations (NPCF), the Trimbos Institute, Health Valley and the Center for eHealth Research (University of Twente). These will organize a range of activities from their respective viewpoints such as the importance of innovation in (mental) health care, the role of industry, the empowerment of patients or research challenges

See www.ehealthweek.nl/ for more information.

Symposium ‘Supporting health by technology II’ May 28^th 2009

D.d. March 17^th 2009 the scientific commission of this symposium selected the contributions submitted before closing date March 1^st 2009. Most submissions were from the Netherlands, some however came from Belgium and Germany. In their variety and quality they reflect the present state of research and development in the field of eHealth. Six themes clearly emerged:

·	Online testing

·	Online treatment

·	Online prevention

Tele-care

·	Patient involvement

·	Organization/coordination of care.

These will structure the symposium’s program which is accessible through www.ehealthresearchcenter.nl/.

All contributors will be personally addressed with regard to their submissions.

The Council for Health and Care (RVZ) goes 2.0

The Council for Public Health and Health Care (Raad voor de Volksgezondheid en Zorg) is an independent body which advises the government on public health and care. The council’s reports since 2000 have seriously influenced Dutch eHealth policy. The Minister of Health (VWS) requested the Council to advise on Health 2.0 developments. In order to develop an advice they opened an on line community http://rvz-health20.ning.com to generate input. Central question is what Health 2.0 may imply for the patient/consumer and its relationship to professionals in care and health insurance.