ACTIVITIES :: ICT Bio 2006 :: Satellite events
Satellite events
Workshops will take place aside from the ICT for BIO-Medical Sciences conference.
- Impact of Emerging ICT on Patient Safety
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Post-conference expert meeting on "Impact of Emerging ICT on Patient Safety", Friday, June 30, 16:00-17:30h, Brussels, same venue - Charlemagne Building, Room S4
Improving "Management of Health Risks" and Patient Safety is one of the
cornerstones to assure policy support for FP7 eHealth research topics. The
eHealth for Safety study commissioned by the EC ICT for Health Unit -
www.eHealth-for-Safety.org - is
organising an expert meeting in conjunction with the "ICT for Bio-Medical
Sciences" conference to discuss how emerging technologies relate to and may
impact the research agenda and R&D priorities in this field. The meeting will
take place on Friday, June 30th, immediately after the conference, 16:00-17:30
h. It will be chaired by Octavian Purcarea, EC, and moderated by Ilias Iakovidis,
EC.
The focus is to brainstorm with a group of experts on the following issues:
- Emerging ICT technologies/tools: how can they contribute to a new perspective for Patient Safety research
- Opportunities and benefits of modelling and simulation of human anatomy, physiology and disease related processes as well as biomedical imaging, visualisation techniques, data mining, grid computing, etc.
The study team is interested to learn how these ICT applications may provide
benefits for healthcare, education/training, clinical research (acceleration of
safer and personalised drugs/treatments), etc. in the foreseeable future or the
longer-term, and learn more about R&D priorities.
The meeting focus will be on critical discussions and brainstorming: therefore
only three speakers will briefly (5-7 minutes each) introduce the impact of
different approaches to modelling of human anatomy, physiology and
pathophysiology, as well as simulation of clinical trials and healthcare
processes, and will present some evidence on already proven, plausible or
potential benefits. Prof. Peter Hunter (NZ) will present some concrete examples
from the Physiome project with clinical relevance; Prof. Zvia Agur, Israel, will
talk about a Virtual Cancer Patient engine and drug safety aspects in clinical
trials, and Prof. Antoine Geissbühler from Geneva University Hospital will
present the clinician point of view.
For more information please contact the eHealth for Safety team (Veli Stroetmann:
Veli@empirica.com) or visit
www.eHealth-for-Safety.org.
- Digital Human (DH) - Multilevel Modelling, Simulation and Visualisation of human physiology and pathophysiological processes
The scope of this new ERCIM working group is to contribute to the European efforts on Virtual Physiological Human and to facilitate multidisciplinary research in this domain. The proposed ERCIM WG intends to promote interactions and collaborations between the various European R&D groups active in the thematic fields relevant to Virtual Human and to facilitate cross fertilization and synergistic activities in collaboration with other relevant groups and initiatives such as the Europhysiome initiative (www.europhysiome.org) currently funded by European Commission.
For more information please contact Prof. Yannis Tollis: tollis@ics.forth.gr (Institute of Computer Science (ICS) - Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)