Call for abstracts Med-e-tel 2009

Thursday, 25 September 2008

The areas covered but not limited will include:

• Ageing services
• Bio-informatics and intelligent clothing
• Cost-benefit studies, market trends, strategies for the future, opportunities and barriers for eHealth implementation
• Developing countries and eHealth
• eHealth and transport systems (air, rail, road, sea, space)
• eHealth applications in cardiology, radiology, wound care and other medical disciplines
• eHealth for prison systems
• Electronic health records
• E-learning
• E-Prescription
• E-therapy including telerehabilitation, cyber-therapy, tele-psychiatry and e-psychology
• Ethics, laws and reimbursement
• Facing threats and disasters
• Home monitoring and homecare applications
• Long term data preservation and intelligibility
• Management of chronic diseases
• Military eHealth
• Nutrition, Drugs and eHealth
• Paediatric telecare
• Secure data transmission
• Standardization and interoperability
• Telecommunication and wireless technologies for eHealth
• Telenursing and nursing informatics
• Etc.

Attendees are invited to submit abstracts related to these themes. Thus they will have an opportunity to discuss their own work with leaders in the field. Abstracts will be published on the Med-e-Tel website and in the Med-e-Tel exhibition guide. The Educational and Informational Program takes place in the morning and afternoon during the three exhibition days. Detailed schedule will be available on http://www.medetel.lu.

Submission
The abstract must be prepared according to the guidelines, which can be found at http://www.medetel.lu. Authors should submit one page abstract before the deadline, i.e. by December 20th, 2008.

For questions regarding the submission of abstracts and the educational program, please feel free to contact Dr. Malina Jordanova, Educational Program Coordinator, tel/fax: +359 2 979 70 80, or e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

For general information regarding Med-e-Tel and sponsorship/exhibition opportunities, please contact Frederic Lievens, International Coordinator, tel: +32 2 269 84 56, fax: +32 2 269 79 53, or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

For further information, please visit:
http://www.medetel.lu

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• Med-e-Tel's Profile

About Med-e-Tel
Med-e-Tel focuses on ehealth and telemedicine applications and a wide range of other medical ICT applications and on the convergence of information and communication technology with medical applications, which lead to higher quality of care, cost reductions, workflow efficiency, and widespread availability of healthcare services.

The "Med" in Med-e-Tel stands for healthcare services (institutional and home based care, prevention and education) and for medical products and equipment (medical imaging equipment, monitoring devices, electronic health records, etc.).
The "e" stands for the electronic and IT industry and services (hard- & software, internet, e-mail, etc.).
The "Tel" stands for telecommunications (whether it is POTS, ISDN, wireless, satellite, videoconferencing, VoIP, or other).

For further information, please visit www.medetel.lu.