(http://www.ehealth-conf.org/)
Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2016) Madeira, Portugal, 1 - 4 July 2016 (http://www.mccsis.org)
Conference Scope: The use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in Healthcare Services is the main mechanism to improve efficiency and effectiveness. This conference aims to draw together information systems, practitioners and management experts from all quadrants involved in developing computer technology to improve healthcare quality. The conference covers three main areas in e-Health: Research Issues, Management Issues and Applications, for more details please see http://www.ehealth-conf.org/call-for-papers.
Paper Submission: This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by February 8, 2016.
Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (1st call extension): 14 March 2016
- Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 11 April 2016
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call): until 1 April 2016
- Late Registration (1st call): after 1 April 2016
- Conference: 1 - 3 July 2016
Paper Publication: The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch. The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by IET's INSPEC, Elsevier, EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, EBSCO and other important indexing services. The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.
Conference Contact:
E-mail: secretariat@ehealth-conf.org
Web site: http://www.ehealth-conf.org/
Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society
Registered participants in the e-Health conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2016 free of charge

(http://www.ehealth4all.it/)
Più vicino a chi ha bisogno. È questo il tema della seconda edizione del premio eHealth4all, dedicato alle migliori applicazioni digitali made in Italy per la prevenzione.
La nuova edizione del premio è stata presentata martedì 15 dicembre al Centro Congressi dell’Università Cattolica di Roma, alla presenza del Direttore Generale per la digitalizzazione del Ministero della Salute.

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Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2015) Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 21 - 24 July 2015 (http://www.mccsis.org)
Keynote Speaker (confirmed):Dr. Carlos M. Travieso-González, Professor at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Conference Scope: The use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in Healthcare Services is the main mechanism to improve efficiency and effectiveness. This conference aims to draw together information systems, practitioners and management experts from all quadrants involved in developing computer technology to improve healthcare quality. The conference covers three main areas in e-Health: Research Issues, Management Issues and Applications, for more details please see http://www.ehealth-conf.org/call-for-papers.
Paper Submission: This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by March 6, 2015 (1st call - new date).
Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (last call): 1 June 2015
- Notification to Authors (last call): 22 June 2015
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call): Until 2 July 2015
- Late Registration (last call): After 2 July 2015
- Conference: 21 - 23 July 2015
Paper Publication: The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch. The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services. The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.
Conference Contact:
E-mail: secretariat@iadis.org
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/
Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society
Co-Organized by: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Registered participants in the e-Health conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2015 free of charge

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Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2014) Lisbon, Portugal, 15 - 19 July 2014 (http://www.mccsis.org)
Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Dr. Adel Taweel, King's College London, UK
Conference Scope: The use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in Healthcare Services is the main mechanism to improve efficiency and effectiveness. This conference aims to draw together information systems, practitioners and management experts from all quadrants involved in developing computer technology to improve healthcare quality. The conference covers three main areas in e-Health: Research Issues, Management Issues and Applications, for more details please see http://www.ehealth-conf.org/call-for-papers.
Paper Submission: This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by June 2, 2014. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously.
Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (last call): 2 June 2014
- Notification to Authors (last call): 23 June 2014
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call): Until 30 June 2014
- Late Registration (last call): After 30 June 2014
Paper Publication: The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch. The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.
Some of the best papers will be eligible to be extended and enhanced as book chapters for inclusion in a book to be published by IGI Global.
Selected authors of best papers will be also invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (IJCSIS - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.
Conference Contact:
E-mail: secretariat@ehealth-conf.org
Web site: http://www.ehealth-conf.org/
Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society
Registered participants in the e-Health conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2014 free of charge.

The International Workshop of the Richard Project "Preventive medicine, integrated car and ICT" was successfully held in Bruxelles on 25th October 2013.
More than 50 participants, coming from several EU regions met to share their knowledge on the use of ICT for the settlement of sustainable chronic care models.
The Workshop has been the closure event of the project but it has been the starting point to define and set the stages for new cooperations.

The use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in Healthcare Services is the main mechanism to improve efficiency and effectiveness. This conference aims to draw together information systems, practitioners and management experts from all quadrants involved in developing computer technology to improve healthcare quality.

The congress brought together people to share experiences and to showcase new ideas, new research and new innovations in telehealth and telecare that have been shown to support improvements in care of people with long-term conditions and other health social care needs. Lauren Powell and Katherine Easton from the University of Sheffield presented the "Ready, Steady, Go Toolkit" and the Richard Project.

The link below contains the King's fund presentation on behalf of the RICHARD Project and Toolkit. King's fund presentation (38'22")

Download the program at the following link.
King's fund program

TeleHealthToolkit Information Day: How to improve the potential success for telemedicine initiatives. The purpose of the Toolkit Information days was to introduce the toolkit to the Tuscany Local Health Authorities, in order to make them to adopt it as a relevant tool for the Tele-health programme design, implementation, testing and mainstreaming. The event has been organized by the Tuscany Region - Regional Government - Directorate General for Rights of Citizenship and Social Cohesion and the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care in South Yorkshire (CLAHRC-SY)

The Research brokerage Workshop in Sheffied wil focus on Implementation of the Ready, Steady, Go Toolkitand on areas of Long-term Condition's management and Serious Gaming.

Towards a new effective ICT-based Care Model for chronic diseases in Europe. The Research Brockerage Workshop in Skelleftea will be focused on "Serious Games & Chronic Diseases".

The first International Workshops planned within the RICHARD project will take place in the Lodz Region, Poland. The workshop will be expected to feature between four and five high level speakers, with an appropriate mix between speakers from the target regions and from other regions or countries in Europe.

Representatives from Lodz described, during the conference, the strategic and conceptual context of the project, its objectives, partners, hitherto actions and results, plans for future as well as the concept and functionalities of the regional demonstrator – as a set of pilot services for diabetics. In total approx. 30 persons took part in the conference – both from the Lodz region and from other Polish regions – these were among others representatives of healthcare centres and IT companies.

CLEAR: the largest study on tele-rehabilitation ever in Europe, presents its final results. It demonstrates that tele-rehabilitation is feasible, safe and efficacious being beneficial to patients affected by different diseases.

The Tuscany Regional Health Department in Florence hosted the first RICHARD Research Brokerage Workshop. The event, organized by University of Siena in partnership with the Tuscany cluster, was a great opportunity for all stakeholders involved in the eHealth process, to meet, discuss and share visions and opportunities in implementing ICT-based services in chronic care. The focus was on Tele-medicine and Innovation in chronic care management aiming to engage the open discussion between stakeholders to potentially identify domains of cooperation that could lead to new projects and requests for funding.

The world is changing and so are health services. We are all, as professionals and citizens, moving away from the situations, ways of life and types of care we have previously known: we are crossing borders, professionally and personally. This general change is reflected in changes more specific to Primary Care. The European Primary Care Forum 2012 conference in Goteborg wants to cross borders to analyze these developments and share knowledge and experiences to improve our daily work.

The Ready Steady Go toolkit provides a framework that can be followed by organisations as they incorporate telehealth, and which should provide a supportive environment in which telehealth can flourish.Based on extensive experience, and a systematic review of the literature, the toolkit has been validated by international colleagues from the RICHARD project and CLAHRC.

National workshop with focus on distance care. RICHARD project was presented in short och focus was on the experiences in RICHARD on telemedicine implementation. Participation from leading politicians and administrative officers

EHST 2012 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners whose work has impact on the development of actual healthcare technologies. Such technologies relate to advanced IT solutions and could facilitate activities of great societal relevance

Between chronic care model and proactive medicine: XII primary Care Congress.lnternational primary care conference focused on the Chronic Care Model (CCM), different experiences will be compared and a lectio magistralis of professor E. Wagner.is foreseen. Conference will be in Italian with English interpreter.

The study tour was focused on the Chronic Care Model and the ICT solutions of support adopted by Tuscany Region and, in particular, on chronic stroke survivors management (clinical rehabilitation pathways, adapted physical activity programs, telerehabilitation program for upper limb paresis (CLEAR Project).

“Impact Analysis of solutions for chronic disease Prevention and Management” ICOST is considered as a premier venue for the presentation and discussion of research in the design, development, deployment and evaluation of Smart Environments, Assistive Technologies and Health Telematics systems. ICOST brings together stakeholders from clinical, academic and industrial perspectives and along with end users and their family carers explore how Smart Homes and Health Telematics can foster independent living and offer an enhanced quality of life.

eHealth Week is a collocation of the European Commission's High Level Ministerial Conference and the World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition. eHealth Week is a platform for all stakeholders in the Health IT community and compliments your national conference, by: - Offering answers by high-level speakers; - Presenting a modern and wide-ranging exhibition, including an interoperability showcase to demonstrate how data can travel across different suppliers and borders; - Allowing to network with government - and industry leaders from across the European continent.

Signo Motus will participate to the workshop whose objective is to present and discuss current and future perspectives of EU and US cooperation on eHealth matters. The workshop will provide an opportunity to review on-going collaborations, including those developed in the context of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation surrounding health information and communication technologies.

Kings Fund Conference bringing together researchers, policy makers, practioners and innovators in telehealth and telecare.

RICHARD project presented and promoted within the first two-day lasting conference promoting a large eHealth project ”Regional System of Medical Information of the Lodz Region (acronym: RSIM), which is being implemented by the self-governmental authority of the Lodz Region. During the special session of this conference devoted to RICHARD project its assumptions, objectives, hitherto, results (including deliverables) as well as future activities were presented in details.

Target of the workshop were businesses, healthcare providers, education, research, public Topic Workshop 1: ICT -how it is related to good treatment? Topic Workshop 2: Innovative ICT solutions – the new meeting place?

The Conference has been organised in the Lodz region to present the RICHARD project in detail and hitherto results. Stakeholders of RICHARD project in the Lodz Region, included R&D institutions, enterprises, healthcare providers, regional authorities.

Conference to share best practice on ehealth initiatives across Europe. Target: European policy makers, practitioners, researchers and innovators. Presentations from John Eaglesham (ADI)

National Forum on Risk management in Health, a session was dedicated to the telemedicine. RICHARD has been presented together with other European projects on eHealth

Stakeholders of RICHARD project in the Lodz Region participated to the conference where the results of the activities devoted to the mapping of research and innovation drivers in the four participant regions and the policies and financial instrument have been explained.

Investing in Europe’s future - Regions and cities delivering smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. For the nineth consecutive year, the Committee of the Regions, together with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional Policy, the European Parliament, 206 regions and cities, companies, financial institutions and European associations, is presenting the OPEN DAYS 2011. More than 100 workshops and debates taking place during the European week of regions and cities to stimulate many fruitful exchanges and interesting discussions among the 6000 expected participants.

WONCA is an acronym for the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians, or World Organization of Family Doctors for short. Wonca World maintains close collaboration with the WHO, e.g. in the areas of tobacco cessation, obesity and mental health. Wonca is made up of national professional and academic organizations of general practitioners/family doctors from more than 100 countries worldwide as well as of individual members. The family doctors attached to Wonca’s member organizations provide care to 80% of the world’s population.

The regional conference "A model for shared ICT in the social health system. [How to meet industry and health care system]" had the aim to definethe strategies for the use of the ICT in the Tuscany health system. The conference has been addressed to the e-Health society, Health and Social care decision makers, National E-Health Industry.

Introduction of the RICHARD project on the e-Health magazine (on line and paper versions)

Workshop on Primary Care for national NHS and social Care organisations

The national Conference has been organised by the Technology Strategy Board for the national industry players and Commissioners.

Breakfast Workshop addressed to national NHS and social care organisations and EU link the scope of the Conference was to define the role of tele health in addressing the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention agenda

Conference addressed to the e-Health society, Health and Social care decision makers, National E-Health Industry players. The conference has been dedicated to technology and the innovative models in the public health sector. Organised by the publishing house Edised, the conference assumes national relevance in the e-health sector.

Sheffield Hallam and Sheffield University organised a class addressed to Health and Social care decision makers and practitioners. South Yorkshire participated with 40 attendances. Presentations have been made to present the project.

Info day evoted to research of clusters organized by the National Contact Point for Framework Programmes of the EU in Warsaw It has been addressed to agents from all over the Poland interested in research clusters

Marshal’s Office of the Lodz Region edited a leaflet with some written information about the start of RICHARD project. Theleaflet has been distributed to the Marshal of the Lodz Region, Members of the Board of the Lodz Region, Department of Promotion and International Cooperation, Department of Entrepreneurship in the Marshal’s Office of the Lodz Region.

The Fachtsheet describes the activities, objects and expected results of the RICHARD project.