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| 13th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science: “Geospatial Thinking” |
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| EUREKA: InnovationDays’09 (Lisbon) |
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| 28th “HOPE Exchange Programme” and “HOPE Agora" |
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| CENTERIS'2009- Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems |
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| “ICT'ae” Journal on Information and Communication Technologies for the Advanced Enterprise 10 Dec 2008 Call for Papers ------------ Dear Sirs, It is our great pleasure to invite you to consider submitting, within the guides in below, to the inaugural issue of ICT'ae - Information and Communication Technology for the Advanced Enterprise : an international journal . ICT'ae is a fully refereed journal and will publish only original papers (originality in theory, technical advancement or application), technical reports, case studies and book reviews. At the end of this message you will find the composition of the Editorial Board, and of the Editorial Review Board. Coverage and Scope Today's business environment is impelling organizational models to shift into the so-called Advanced Enterprises. These emerging models require suitable information systems, electronic business support, electronic commerce, communication technologies, etc. ICT'ae intends to promote, discuss and disseminate the utilization and advancements of Information Technologies and Systems and ICT within these advanced organizational models. The journal is targeted to both an academic audience (teachers, researchers and students, mainly of post-graduate studies), IS/IT professionals (IS managers and IT specialists,) and high-level managers. Recommended topics include, but are not limited, to the following ones: - IT-based supporting environments and organizations Submission Guidelines and Paper Format (For all the detailed information, please visit http://www.ict4ae.org) Submissions are to be permanently open, except for the first issue, for which will only be considered submissions received until March 31, 2009. All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief ( editor@ict4ae.org ) Kind regards, |
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| Improving Hospital patient care through fixed and wireless LAN technologies Rui J. M. M. C. Gomes – rui@gomes.com 1. The Situation The last ten years has seen a rapid increase in the quantity of technology used in healthcare environments. A small number of Hospitals today would live on without a data network in place for communication and sharing resources for clinical and business applications for Hospital management. Nevertheless, many Hospitals are finding that their existing technology can no longer support daily activities. Hospital de São Sebastião in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal acknowledged for its continual innovation, delivers high quality care to a community of 360,000 inhabitants with about 400 beds and 1500 employees. This institution has a recognized commitment to quality, respect for the individual, teamwork and performance and what concerns costumer needs the Hospital wanted that his health professionals to have anytime access to high-bandwidth medical images and data, no matter where they were located inside or abroad. As soon as the Hospital were aware that secure wired and wireless access around the area could enable much faster and improved medical care with collaborative medical applications, decided to increased the network bandwidth to have the capacity to allow both this and other critical activities to take place at the same time. 2. The solution To deliver and implement a wired and wireless gigabit Ethernet network, across the organization, the Hospital decided for a reputable supplier, like Nortel Networks, to help and transform communications in the long term since there was a believe that this provider could offered one of the safest transitions to the most reliable technology available on the market. The reliable business continuity plan required for a modern Hospital network is delivered now by a highly robust switched cluster based on the Routing Switch Nortel 8600. The clustering technology ensures active resilience and no single point-of-failure, thereby protecting the Hospital's existing and future investment in critical applications and services. (read more…) |
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| Integrated Patient Records System being used across Portuguese Health Centers 06 Feb 2008iSOFT Spain, an IBA Health Group company (Australia), has installed its hospital information solution at four health centres and one hospital in Portugal for private healthcare group ESSAUDE in a project worth €519,000. The system was installed in just four months. Running on a single database, the solution provides integrated patient management, clinical and financial applications across the five centres. iSOFT's hospital information solution allows patients' medical histories to be managed electronically with clinical tools which provide accurate information for point-of-care tests as well as providing access to previous diagnoses and test results. The Povoa de Varzim, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Amarante, Porto health centres and the Santiago-Setubal Hospital were acquired by the Portuguese group Espirito Santo Saúde (ESSAUDE) last year. iSOFT has worked with ESSAUDE since 2000 beginning this latest project in September 2007. Within a month all five centres were using patient administration systems in outpatient, inpatient, infirmary, and pharmacy departments. At the beginning of 2007, ESSAUDE expanded its hospital division considerably, acquiring Hospor, one of the most important hospital networks in Portugal, which comprised these four health centres and one hospital. As ESSAUDE's technology partner, iSOFT has supported its growth strategy by installing x-HIS as the corporate hospital information system for all its centres. iSOFT has worked with ESSAUDE since 2000 and became its technology partner in 2002 after a formal agreement, worth €300,000 a year, to install solutions at all ESSAUDE hospitals and health centres. ESSAUDE's growth strategy is based on acquiring and building new hospitals and is underpinned by iSOFT's solutions. Last year iSOFT completed projects for ESSAUDE worth €733,000. Julio Bou of iSOFT Spain said: "Our solution has proven to be versatile and transferable to other health systems. Proof of this is the success of the projects carried out in Portugal with ESSAUDE and in Mexico. We will continue to work with ESSAUDE, providing the support, knowledge and experience that iSOFT has in the development of international information technology applications, the main purpose of which is the improvement and optimisation of health services provided to patients and in this case, private health care." About iSOFT |
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| On RFID: The next step to the Internet of Things (Conference under the Portuguese Presidency) 15-16 Nov 2007 Lagoas Park Conference Center Lisbon Portugal For detailed information visit the Conference Site |
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| The European Network of Living Labs Event - ENoLL Event Guimarães (launching the Call for Applications for the "2nd wave" of ENoLL) 21-23 May 2007 Guimarães (North of Portugal) |
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| 8th Symposium "Mechanisms of Gene Expression" at IBMC 27 Apr 2007 R. Campo Alegre, 823 Porto |
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| NGNS: A Key Stroke Analyser Professional typewriting can cause severe problems on fingers, hands, arms and even shoulders. One of such problems is the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, which is the leading cause of occupational illness in the United States , costing the industry thousands of dollars every year. Until now, the investigation of causes and consequences has been difficult, mostly due to the inexistence of a practical and reliable way of analysing the typist movements. This work developed a solution to detect and identify the typist's fingers while typewriting, and then calculate the statistics concerning pressed keys and fingers used to do so. To capture the typist's movements, an USB camera was used, with a fluorescent light to guarantee correct keyboard illumination. The system then records a video and memorizes the frames where a key was pressed. After the video capture, the system processes the needed frames and detects the fingers used for each pressed key. To distinguish the several fingers, coloured self-adhesive markers cover the patient's nails. Fuzzy logic was used to classify the used finger, by evaluation of a set of rules that take into account the average R, G and B channels from the area of interest. The system showed an accuracy of 91% in fully automatic mode, and it is possible to achieve 100% in the advanced mode, where the user can confirm the software classification. Future developments may include a second camera to record another keyboard image, therefore enhancing the chances of correct classification
Contact: Pedro Vieira, NGNS pmv@fct.unl.pt |
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| Magic Key Project The Magic Key Project , developed at the Superior School of Technology and Management of Guarda , aims at the development of simple, economical and functional solutions that facilitate the access to the new information and communication technologies by people whose physical difficulties hinder or make this access very difficult. (more….) |
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| First Portuguese Health Helpline Selects a British Provider Source: Med-e-TEL |
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The Impact of Telematics on the Healthcare Sector (A Survey carried out by the EC co-funded Project "TELMED", in 1996) |
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Trends in Health Telematics in the European Union This document was prepared by the members of the European Community Telematics Programme Committee Working Party (Health, Disabled and Eldery, Health Sector). in the 4th FWP, 1996, seconded by David Preston, NHS Executive Information Management Group |
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