Call for Abstracts: Med-e-Tel 2008

Monday, 05 November 2007

The areas covered will include (but are not limited to):

• Ageing services technologies
• Bio-informatics and bio-medical technologies
• Cost-benefit studies
• Current eHealth realizations and projects
• Developing countries and eHealth
• Disease and wellness management
• Distance education, eLearning
• eHealth and telemedicine integration into routine medical practice
• eHealth and transport systems (air, rail, road, sea, space)
• eHealth applications in cardiology, radiology, wound care, paediatrics and other medical disciplines
• eHealth for prison systems
• eHealth strategies for the future
• Electronic health records
• ePrescription
• eTherapy including ePsychology
• Facing threats and natural disasters
• Home monitoring, homecare applications
• Innovations within eHealth
• Legal and ethical aspects
• Long term data preservation and intelligibility
• Medication compliance
• Military telemedicine experiences
• Mobile eHealth (mHealth) applications
• Nursing informatics and telenursing
• Nutrition, drugs and eHealth
• Reimbursement issues
• Satellites and eHealth
• Secure data transmission
• Smart homes and independent living
• Standardization and interoperability
• Telecommunication and wireless technologies for eHealth
• Etc.

Attendees are invited to submit abstracts related to these themes so they may 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 and conference guide. The educational and informational program takes place in the morning and afternoon during the three conference days.

Abstract submission
The abstract must be prepared according to the guideline available at http://www.medetel.lu/download/2008/
instructions_for_abstract_preparation.doc. Authors should submit a one page abstract before the deadline, i.e. by January 12, 2008 by e-mail to Med-e-Tel's Educational Program Coordinator, Dr. Malina Jordanova, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Important dates

• 12 January 2008 - Abstract submission deadline
• 21 January 2008 - Notification of acceptance and publication of abstracts on the Med-e-Tel website
• 25 February 2008 - Deadline for camera-ready submission of full text papers
• 1 April 2008 - Deadline for submitting PowerPoint presentations
• 16-18 April 2008 - Med-e-Tel

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• Med-e-Tel's Profile

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