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EC Messages to Projects (HTP button)

1. Your contribution for the MEDICA98 (18-21 November)

IST Programme Calls of 19 March 1999 The most important call for proposals with health themes are now out: For health telematics, you can download the call documents for the IST (Information Society Technologies) programme managed by DGXIII at http://www.cordis.lu/ist/calls/199901.htm The deadline for submission is June 16, 1999. For more clinical proposals, you can also address the Life programme managed by DGXII at: http://www.cordis.lu/life/calls/199901.htm

STRUCTURE OF THE 5th Framework Programme http://www.cordis.lu/fp5/ Here is a short summary of the main issues. The bulk of cost-shared R&D activities has been concentrated in only 4 "Specific thematic programmes". So, thematic programme 2, "User Friendly Information Society" is the coalescence of the previous ACTS, ESPRIT and TAP programmes. Each thematic programme is subdivided into "Key actions" and 3 "horizontal activities (Future and emerging technologies, support to R&D infrastructures and International Cooperation). Within this structure, thematic programme 2 – also called IST (Information Society Technology) – should have the following key actions: KA1) Systems and services for the citizen KA2) New methods of work and electronic commerce KA3) Multimedia content and tools KA4) Essential technologies and infrastructures Each key action is subdivided into "Action lines". For example KA1 of IST has both "health" and "persons with special needs", amongst others. But you should be aware that health can also be part of the horizontal activities as defined above and also of other key actions as for example KA2 (Electronic commerce) or KA4. For the picture to be complete, you should also know that biomedical research is within thematic programme 1 "Quality of life and management of living resources". Origin of information : EHTO (18/12/98), update 20/01/99

EURASIA Online'98 Conference 7-9 October 1998, Almaty, Kazakhstan New Market Opportunities for Telematics Products and Services for Education and Training, Healthcare and Electronic Commerce. Final call for presentation and demonstrations. Check on the following web site: http://www.katelco.com/UNESCO/online98_en.html

5th Healthcare concertation meeting This meeting was held on July 4-5 1998 at the Plaza Hotel, Brussels. Concord has set-up a webpages containing all the slides, pictures and more.

Turning research into products Workshop Brussels 4 - 5 June 1998 This is a workshop organised by the Health Telematics sector of the Telematics Applications Programme. This workshop, which takes place during a "concertation meeting" of on-going projects, is open without inscription fees to any person interested. However, the attendance will be limited to 250 persons. By clicking the following links, you can access an invitation letter which puts the workshop in perspective the content of the workshop, its venue and its agenda a PowerPoint slide showing the workshop approach an enrolment form (only for those not in projects) (note: Health telematics projects participants, should not use the above enrolment form. A special information is provided to them via the "HTP" link)

Navigating the legal waters of health telematics: Charting the legal and regulatory challenges of implementing healthcare telematics Satellite Workshop at HealthCare Computing 98 Harrogate 23 - 25 March Tuesday 24 March 9 - 10.30 Facing Liabilities Introduction - Setting the legal and regulatory scene and providing an overview of the issues - Otto Rienhoff (Medical Informatics, University of Gottingen, Germany) The legal issues of the Patient Data Card - Zoi Kardasiadou (Law and Informatics, University of Hannover) The legal pitfalls of databanking - Andrew Hawker (British Computer Society) and Dai Davies (Eversheds Solicitors, Leeds 11 - 12 .30 The wider perspective in Data Protection Introduction - - outlining patients and users concerns - Iain Bourne (Data Protection Regristrar's Office, UK) Using Privacy Enhancing technologies to protect data - John Borking (Data Protection Registrar's Office, NL) The role of codes of Ethics - Poulet (Centre for Informatics and Law, Namur, BE) 11 - 12.30 Workshop - Chair David Preston The speakers together with the audience discuss in roundtable format the issue arising and draw up a list of key problem areas. We envisage active involvement from the audience, and have already received advance notice of attendance from key players in secure health telematics in Europe. Wednesday 25 March 9 - 10.30 Feedback report Dr P Wilson will make a short presentation of the results of the previous day in one of the Plenary conference sessions. The Proceedings of the workshop will be published in a book. All registration and fees are handled directly by the organisers of the HC98 conference: Mrs J Hayes tel: +44 1886 833 868 fax: +44 1886 833 843 Information on content can be requested from Dr Petra Wilson: petra.wilson@bxl.dg13.cec.be

The Telematics Applications Programme (TAP) is organising a conference on the theme "Advancing the Information Society" in Barcelona from Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 February 1998. Message: Day 1, Wednesday 4 February is a "cross-sectoral concertation meeting" on present state of the art in technological development restricted to EU funded projects. The following days are open to all. Day 2, Thursday 5 February will highlight the achievements of telematics research in Europe in the last ten years, under the theme "Telematics at your service". Day 3, Friday 6 February will present future perspectives for the forthcoming specific programme "Creating a user-friendly Information Society". An exhibition will be held in parallel from Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 February 1998 and present key achievements of the Telematics Applications Programme. Registration fee is 250 ECUs/person for the whole duration of the conference. More information can be found under "news and announcements" on: http://www2.echo.lu/telematics. As this is a "programme" event and not a "sectoral" event not all projects will be able to make a presentation or be present at the exhibition. Health telematics projects should consult their Project Officer for more information on their possibility of presence. For questions of general interest, click "Question and Answer". Guidelines for project participation are available on the HTP page Origin: Health Telematics Office Submission Date: October 13, 97 Update: January 12, 98 For those who could not be in Barcelona live, you can find more information here: http://www.tweuro.com/barcelona/

Information Society Call for Proposals (Deadline 20th June 1997) Message: The Information Society Activity Centre (which includes the Information Society Project Office ISPO) has launch a Call for Proposals. The budget for the call is 6 MECU. Proposals will be funded normally at 50% and will have to be submitted by the 20th June 1997. The areas of work are: Helping to establish the Information Society by promoting the use of concrete applications. Understanding the political, economic and social impacts of the information society. Accompanying measures. This is not call for RTD proposals, but for demonstration actions, studies and accompanying measures. However, many RTD projects could find this call useful to promote results, diffuse best practices and undertake specific studies. The complete Information Package, form for Expressions of Interest and Summaries of projects from the 1996 call can be found at the ISPO server: http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/callidx.html Tel: +32-2-296 88 00 or 296 89 00 Fax: +32-2-299 41 80 Origin: Jacques Lacombe   Jesus Villasante Submission Date: April 17, 97

Call for Proposals under TEN Message: A call for proposals has been issued under TEN (Trans-European Networks) in the domain of Euro-ISDN (call for proposals TI 1/97, Official Journal C84 of 15.3.1997). Trans-European telecommunications networks for health are called for, amongst others. The deadline for submission is 20.06.1997 (16:00). More information is available at: http://www.echo.lu/tentelecom/en/call97/infopack.html Origin: Jacques Lacombe Submission Date: April 3, 97

Short report on the Workshop on Telematics for Medical Imaging Message: Short report on the workshop: Integration of images for multimodal medical application organised by the European Commission DGXIIIC on 17-18 March. Origin: Luciano Beolchi Submission Date: 11/12/96    Updated: 21/01/97

Information on the Fourth Call for Proposals Message: The fourth call of proposals for the TAP (Telematics Applications Programme) has been issued on December 17, 1996. All information regarding this call (official text, workprogramme, information package, other related calls) can be found at http://www.echo.lu/telematics/. More specific information can be obtained by fax: +32 2 295 23 54 of by E-mail: telematics@dg13.cec.be. The closing date for submitting proposals in the health sector is 15 April 1997. Some additional information to help you gain a better understanding of the health care part of the call is given in the following documents. It should be made clear that these documents are provided to you for assistance in determining the goals of the call but that the only official texts are those provided with the information package. Our general advice is that, before embarking in the time and resources consuming task of preparing a proposal, you read the information package carefully and make sure that the work you propose falls perfectly within the scope of the call. In order to help you further in your making proposal, we (the "health telematics team") have opened a special forum for "questions and/or comments" on this fourth call. Although we will only begin answering the questions at the end of January 1997 because of the workload, nevertheless we recommend that you put your question or comments early, so that we can have sufficient time to prepare a well documented answer. You should also be aware that you can use the "profiles of interest" facility of this site to advertise your availability and/or for your needs of partners. [ more information ]   [ questions and/or comment ] Origin: Jacques Lacombe     Jesus Villasante Submission Date: 20/12/96

Follow-up of the Telematics Applications Programme INFORMATION DAY Message: Follow-up of the INFORMATION DAY organised on Thursday, January 9 in Brussels. Following Documents have been presented by Jean-Claude Healy,      Head of the Health Telematics Unit. slide show   (15 KB) Pekka Karp slide show   PowerPoint (724 KB) Jesús Villasante Claudios slide show   PowerPoint (100 KB) Related pages: Call for Proposals Call for Proposals: Questions and Answers Origin: Jacques Lacombe Submission Date: 6/12/96    Updated: 21/01/97

Telematics Applications Programme Information Desk Message: A "Telematics Applications Programme" information desk is available: tel: +32 2 295 45 60 fax: +32 2 295 23 54 Origin: Jacques Lacombe Submission Date: 6/12/96

Workshop on Telematics for Medical Imaging Message: Brussel, 17-18 MARCH 1997. The European Commission DGXIIIC- Health Care Telematics Applications, will organise a workshop on Telematics for Medical Imaging. More information is available. Origin: Luciano Beolchi Submission Date: 11/12/96

EC Messages to Projects

• Preparation of the Barcelona conference exhibition (February 1998)
          - message 1  (Dec 3, 1997)
          - message 2  (Dec 17, 1997)
  
• Preparation of the Barcelona conference oral presentations (afternoon day 2)

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