Beside a general introduction it will present major, well-established software projects and summarise existing initiatives to support and promote its use. Natural to the characteristics of its subject, the seminar will be collaboratively held asking also the audience to join the discussion, suggest the focus interested in and propose ways to start a partnership for modernisation of health care practice in Europe.

The seminar will among others focus on

The eHealth2012 will take place in the Schönbrunn Palace Conference Centre in Vienna from 10th to 11th of Mai 2011.
The conference's motto and program target on building a bridge from research to application of information and communication technology in health care. Submitted and invited scientific presentations and posters as well as workshops and an interoperability showcase will contribute to that.
Although a considerable number of presentations - as well as most parts of the homepage - will be in German, which is the official conference language, papers can be submitted and presented in English as well.

Deadline: 25 January 2012
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We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna!

Günter Schreier and Elske Ammenwerth

Please visit for more information the eHealth-Portal

We invite you to submit a broad range of contributions related to the latest achievements in eHealth, biomedical and health informatics. The specific focus for the MIE2012 conference is the various roles of eHealth in pursuing benefits seen in quality of life for patients, health-care personnel, citizens and the society. We encourage you to submit a contribution about methodologies and applications, successful stories or lessons learned from not so successful projects in the health-care domain.

For more information please consult www.mie2012.it

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Kind regards from
The MIE 2012 SPC-team

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Please register at STC2012.eu and send your paper until 17 January

Rolf Engelbrecht
Chair Programme Committee

The aim of the EFMI special topic conferences (STC) is to provide a forum to discuss achievements and actual experiences on specific topics in Medical Informatics in Europe (MIE). Its basis is innovative methods and approaches. STC enhances the communication among the professional communities of health informatics.

STC2012 -carrying on the traditional series of EFMI STC conferences- is one of the most important European events in the common sphere of medicine and informatics. Its major goal is to increase interaction and collaboration among professionals from both health and ICT. The STC conferences are organised in close collaboration with EFMI working groups.

The seminar will start the EFMI special topic conference STC2012 on 18 April in Moscow (www.STC2012.eu). It will be continued by a workshop which will demonstrate the GEP-HI approach using a real health information system. A proposal for this workshop can be send to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it in a free format.

EFMI-WG LIFOSS and IMIA OS WG co-organise IWEEE2012 and promote the use of open source software in providing health care in developing countries and emerging economies. More information about the event is available on the website of IWEEE.

On the 12th and 13th of January the Open Source World Conference http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/en will be held in Granada which will enable participants to visit both events.

Kioulafas was born in 1940. He was Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the Department of Economics and Finance. He served as Dean of the School of Law and Economics and as Head of Department of Economics and Finance at the same University.

He was the Founder and Director of the private educational and research Institute of the Eastern Aegean (INEAG), an Institutional Member of EFMI, hosting the annual ICICTH Conference (International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Health Care) on Samos Island 10 times.

He was full of plans for the next years. Summer schools and conferences on health informatics were discussed and planned last July. There is a hope that his work will be a basis for the future. EFMI will do its best to continue his work.

Following the success of the first event in Paris in April 2010, 2nd annual Health 2.0 Europe will take place in Berlin on October 27-28, 2011. Health 2.0 Europe integrates the best of European web/mobile based technologies, and compares, contrasts and contextualises them with leading examples of Health 2.0 from around the world.

Please find more information at http://www.health2con.com/europe/