In 2009, 85% of online Europeans in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain turn to the Internet and other technologies for health and prescription drug information, according to the...
In 2009, 85% of online Europeans in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain turn to the Internet and other technologies for health and prescription drug information, according to the...
Swedish Presidency plays host on 22-23 October to the European network of state secretaries responsible for eHealth, which met for the first time in Prague in February this year. The aim is to...
Medical records of patients treated at a private British hospital, The London Clinic, have been illegally sold to undercover investigators. The revelations were made in ITV’s Tonight Programme...
e-Health, Telemedicine and Health ICT are a tool at the service of medical and nurse practitioners, patients, citizens, institutions and governments. They involve many different stakeholders who...
The U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center has awarded a $730,000 grant to the data integration group LiveData to develop standards for clinical information integration:...
e-Health, Telemedicine and Health ICT are a tool at the service of medical and nurse practitioners, patients, citizens, institutions and governments. They involve many different stakeholders who need to be brought face-to-face to share aspirations, learn from research and experiences, show the possibilities, understand the market, discover new applications. These are the aims of Med-e-Tel, a vast meeting place presenting more than 150 events, between lectures and workshops, and taking place in Luxemburg from April 14th to 16th, 2010. The conferences are dedicated to the experience built up by experts from around the world and to best practice examples, to the study of future trends in Telemedicine and eHealth and their effect on the healthcare system as a whole, and to technological development.
The lectures are directed to association executives, consultants, distributors and agents, educators and researchers, funding agencies and investors, government representatives and international authorities, health insurance providers, homecare service organizations, medical specialists and general practitioners, nurses. Supported among the other by the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, the European Commission, the World Health Organization and Luxemburg authorities, the event will allow to examine products and services such as computer hardware and software, consulting services, diagnostic and vital signs monitoring devices, electronic health cards, electronic medical records and personal health records, imaging devices, internet and intranet services, mobile and wireless devices, satellite communication, secure data transmission, telecommunication services, telecare, telehealth, telemedicine and videoconferencing equipment.
Participating health professionals can ask for up to 18h ECM credits. For further information and subscriptions as a visitor or an expositor, please write to the e-mail address info@medetel.lu or visit the website www.medetel.eu
Source: eHealthNews.eu, October 15th, 2009
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