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WCIT, 17th World Congress on Information Technology, 25-27 May, 2010, Amsterdam
The Netherlands will host the 17th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT). This important event reviews issues of global importance and strives to define how change can be realized and accelerated through the application of IT leading to a better, safer and opportunity-rich world. The UT Center for eHealth Research and Disease Management participates in the eHealth track.
European eHealth News portal
See http://www.ehealthnews.eu/
Advances in Health Informatics Conference 2010 (AHIC), April 28-30, 2010
The University of Waterloo will be holding the 1st Canadian conference on Health Informatics research and education coming April at the University of Waterloo, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It is organized by Waterloo’s Institute for Health Informatics Research, a partner of the Center for eHealth Research. The theme of the conference is “The Realities of eHealth.”
Conference themes further include: (1) Progress in Health Informatics in foundational and applied research, (2) Advances in Health Informatics education, and (3) New developments in evidence-based eHealth policy development and implementation or healthcare practice.
The conference will focus on advances in Health Informatics research and education. AHIC will have fully peer-reviewed content and a single stream of presentations with an embedded think-tank session. Most importantly, it will distinguish itself by being a 'green' conference that supports both onsite and virtual participation (including presentation), and AHIC targets a global audience. Student papers are encouraged.
Med-e-Tel 14-16 April 2010, Luxemburg
Med-e-Tel focuses on eHealth and telemedicine applications and a wide range of other medical ICT applications and on the convergence of information and communication technology with medical applications, which lead to higher quality of care, cost reductions, workflow efficiency, and widespread availability of healthcare services.
The "Med" in Med-e-Tel stands for healthcare services (institutional and home based care, prevention and education) and for medical products and equipment (medical imaging equipment, monitoring devices, electronic health records, etc.). The "e" stands for the electronic and IT industry and services (hard- & software, internet, e-mail, etc.). The "Tel" stands for telecommunications (whether it is POTS, ISDN, wireless, satellite, videoconferencing, VoIP, or other).
The 8th International eHealth, telemedicine and health ICT forum takes place in Luxemburg and is supported by the European Union, by The International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, the European Health Telematics Association, the Luxemburg administration, and many others. Read more …
Health 2.0 Europe, 6-7 April Paris
This corporate conference shows a social and technological inflection shows in her program with interesting subject like patient communities, consumer tools, national IT strategies and 2.0, or search technologies. Read more …
Fifth National Diabetes Day, March 26, 2010, Utrecht
This biannual event is organized by the Dutch National Diabetes Federation (NDF). It offers a scientific, policy and care update for anyone working in diabetes care and prevention. Parallel sessions address eHealth with regard to education, self management and empowerment. Read more …
Symposium Dutch Association of eHealth and National Platform eHealth, March 23, 2010
This 12th symposium takes place at Humanitas Akropolis in Rotterdam. This year’s program is about ‘Entrepreneurship eHealth simplistic? ’ Interesting lecturers have been attracted.
Register via wveldhoen@stichtinghumanitas.nl or phone 010 461 53 49.
Rapport RVZ Gezondheid 2.0
In February the Council on Public Health and Health Care (RVZ) will publish an explorative study on Health 2.0. This advisory study deals with the possible impact of Health 2.0 developments on the ‘classical’ administrative relationships between care consumers, care providers and health care insurers. Roles, tasks and responsibilities will eventually change by 2.0 developments which in turn affects the role of the ministry of Health, who commissioned the study in 2008.
A concept of the study was recently presented at the Knowledge Chamber, a meeting of leaders of knowledge institutions at the ministry of Health to set the agenda for knowledge and innovation (among them Dr. Anne Flierman President of the Executive Board of the University of Twente).
It was decided that the working programs of among others the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Health Council (GR), Council on Public Health and Health Care (RVZ), Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), Trimbos Institute, should be in tune on the subject of eHealth, telemedicine and health informatics.
Health Valley event, March 17, 2010, Nijmegen.
The Health Valley Event is a platform for companies, knowledge and care institutions and scientists to meet and be informed of the latest developments in the field of Health.
Many initiatives in health and technology from the Health Valley region are shown at the event. Given the many projects which centers and businesses in the regions currently Nijmegen and Twente will cooperate during the Health Valley Event extra attention to this innovation-axis technological medical field. Besides showing the successes of the Health Valley Event is also a platform for promising new ideas. Through pitches and matchmaking session's is looking for opportunities in new initiatives and cooperation.
Additional information on http://www.health-valley.nl/event
High Level eHealth Conference 2010, March 15-18th, Barcelona
The ministerial event known as the 'High Level eHealth Conference' takes place in Barcelona.
Co-organized by the forthcoming Spanish Presidency of the European Union the Conference is a ministerial event titled: 'eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery: global challenges through local actions'. Read more …
Telemed2010, February 10-16, 2010
The second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine takes place in St. Maarten (Dutch Antilles). The Center hosts a Workshop on Business Modeling for the Next Generation of Telemedicine Systems and Services. Several interesting contributions have been received. Business modeling and its impact on the speed of implementation is a field of interest at the Center.
Medical informatics 2009
At the bi-annual Dutch-Belgian conference on medical informatics MIC2009 (November 2009), our Center hosted a mini-symposium on eHealth. Within the symposium three lectures were given. The first lecture was by Dr. Lisette van Gemert on the subjects and coherence of research program on eHealth and disease management that currently unfolds at the University of Twente.
The second talk was given by Ig. Pim Ketelaar, chairman of the Dutch Association for eHealth (NVEH) who pleaded for acceleration in the implementation of eHealth and telemedicine applications in the Netherlands.
The third lecture by Drs. Hans Ossebaard dealt with the role of technology in shared decision making.
Kick off EurSafety
The University of Twente and University of Munster collaborate to enhance patient safety in cross border healthcare. Dr. J (Lisette) van Gemert-Pijnen and Dr. MGR (Ron) Hendrix coordinate a large project that is embedded in the Institute of Behavioral Research (IBR), of the faculty of Behavioural Sciences. The project was launched at November 20th in Grolsch Veste Enschede. Read more …
