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First European Convergence Workshop on a pan-European eHealth Infostructure to take place at EFMI-STC in Reykjavik 3rd June 2010

The first European Convergence Workshop aiming at the design of a pan-European eHealth Infostructure will take place at the 10th International Special Topic Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI - STC), Reykjavik, Iceland, 3rd of June 2010. The topic of the workshop is “Semantics and ontologies - opportunities and challenges for convergence”. The event is initiated by the FP7 Integrating Project DebugIT, coordinated by Dr. Dirk Colaert of Agfa Healthcare, of which Prof. Christian Lovis, Geneva University Hospitals, is the scientific coordinator. The workshop will bring together various EU FP7 and CIP projects, including DebugIT, PSIP, EU-ADR, epSOS and CALLIOPE, for a full day meeting. The second part of the day is open to the wider public.
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Recognition of the achievements of DebugIT by its high profile Clinical Advisory Board

The second meeting of the DebugIT Clinical Advisory Board was held in April 2010 during the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Vienna. The Board members were very pleased with the achievements of the project and expressed their hope to be able to see as many DebugIT tools implemented as possible. At the same time, they stressed the challenges the DebugIT team is likely to face in reaching large scale deployment, such as the widely underdeveloped baseline ICT infrastructure among hospitals. On explicit request by the chairman, Prof. Dr. Didier Pittet from the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety, the board will be updated on the further development in a meeting in autumn of this year.

DebugIT’s second large-scale training event, the Summer School 2010 takes place in Linköping

Following the extremely successful Winter School in Paris this January, the DebugIT team is meeting again 22-24 June in Linköping, Sweden. The event is dedicated to demonstrations and hands-on exploration of core challenges of the DebugIT project. These include the building of a common infrastructure for sharing and reusing clinical data in the domain of infectious diseases, for the purpose of knowledge extraction through data mining and transformation of this knowledge into useful clinical decision support. The objectives of the Summer School are to encourage constructive multidisciplinary exchange on core methodologies, prototypes, and potential deployment opportunities. Participation by external researchers is welcomed. For details contact Hans dot Ahlfeldt at liu dot se.