"NEM Summit 2010” - Towards Future Media Internet
13-15 Oct 2010
Barcelona
Spain
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European Society of Cardiology- ESC Congress 2009
(Prevention and Risk Factor Identification)
29 Aug - 2 Sep 2009
Barcelona
Spain
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13th Annual ESC Conference - EUROECHO 2009
(Echocardiography)
9-12 Dec 2009
IFEMA - Feria de Madrid
Centro de Conventiones Norte 
28042 Madrid
Madrid
Spain
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13th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS'08)
6-8 Oct 2008
Malaga
Spain
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EC to hold e-health management workshop

28 Jan 2008

The European Commission is to hold a workshop on e-health management, organised by the ePractice.eu portal – the EC's web service for the professional community of eGovernment, eInclusion and e-health practitioners. The workshop will be facilitated by e-health experts and will be introduced by a high-level keynote speaker, still to be confirmed.

Three different e-health cases will be introduced briefly, before the workshop divides into three breakout sessions in which each case is explored in further detail. A number of core issues and questions will be discussed throughout the day. Making up the three cases will be the Macro government level, centered on Britain's NHS service, Hospital Catalonia in Spain will look at the institutional hospital level, and a separate presentation will look at the clinical to patient level, focusing on electronic patient records . 

The aim of the workshop is to review IT management issues with a core focus on e-health. It is geared to two sets of people - those with a particular interest in e-health and those with a general interest in public services and their use of information and communication technologies.

Especially welcome are health service managers and executives, public sector officials, civil servants, ICT managers, designers and implementers.

Key questions relating to e-health and IT implementation will be discussed. These are:

• How was your e-health initiative developed, the technology chosen and taken up, and the preparation of implementation launched?
• Who is leading the introduction, how are decisions taken, how is IT represented on the corporate board?
• Who is participating in the implementation, how is continuous improvement managed, who is responsible?
• Which group(s) are most resistant (if at all), how is overcoming this resistance managed?
• If completed, what are the major lessons learned from the experience, what could have been done differently?

The event will be held in July and is free of charge. For further information and registration, please visit: http://www.epractice.eu/workshop/eHealthmanagement .

Mammogrid - eHealth Project of the Month December 2006

Source: EC-IST Results
Date: 22 Dec 2006
Closing date of the Project period of time: August 2005 (5th FP).

Does eHealth contribute to saving lives? Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. One out of eight women will develop it at some point in their lives, and it will kill one out of 28 in the EU and the US. But harnessing the power of the grid could help increase the accuracy of diagnoses. Mammography examinations save thousands of women's lives every year. However the rate of misdiagnosis can in some instances go up to 30%. This is due to physical differences between patients (e.g. tissue density), differences in equipment and procedures and difficulty in using computers and their related applications to detect changes in breast tissue.

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HealthGRID 2006 WORKSHOP
DATE:   7th - 9th June 2006
VENUE: Valencia, SPAIN

A forum for the integration of Grid Technologies and its Applications in the Biomedical, Medical and Biological domains to pave the path to an International Research Area in HealthGrids... (read more at .http://valencia2006.healthgrid.org/index.php)

An Instrument for measuring quality of Life in Patients with Cutaneous Diseases

Abstract: A group from the Autónoma University of Madrid has done a study of the psychometric properties of a Spanish version of Skindex-29. This instrument measures quality of life of patients with cutaneous disease. The method has validity, reliability and sensitivity for measuring the effects of cutaneous conditions on quality of life of Spanish patients. They look for financial resources and technical cooperation with groups and pharmaceutical Laboratories working on subcutaneous diseases as hydatid. (more) 

Spanish Research Minister wishes to see innovation included in ERA

Setting out the Spanish Presidency's priorities for research, development, innovation, industry, telecommunications and the information society to the European Parliament on 23 January, Spain's Minister for science and technology, Anna Birulés, indicated her wish to see the European research area (ERA) extended to include innovation. (more)

IPR at National Level

A resource of practical information on intellectual property and innovation in Spain. (link)

The Impact of Telematics on the Healthcare Sector

• Spain

Trends in Health Telematics in the European Union

• Trends in Spain

EC funded Research Projects

• Health Telematics - AIM     (3rd Framework Programme 1991-94)
  - Analyses of organisations and countries breakdown
  - Participants