Impact of Emerging ICT on Patient Safety - at "ICT for Bio-Medical Sciences 2006"

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

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, 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 

See also:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events
/ict_bio_2006/satellite-events/index_en.htm

 

 

ICT for Bio-Medical Sciences 2006

The conference "ICT for Bio-Medical Sciences 2006" (Brussels, 29th-30th June) is organised by the European Commission Directorate General (DG) Information Society and Media (INFSO) and DG Research. The conference will focus on highly multidisciplinary topics that lie at the cross roads of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) research and life sciences research such as Multilevel modelling and simulation of human physiology, Biomedical informatics, Biomedical imaging, Systems Biology or Healthgrid. The Commissioner of Information Society and Media, Vivian Reding, together with invited national Ministers and Members of the European Parliament will open the conference.

Conference sessions held over two days will feature leading academic and industry experts in the field. The conference will also stage a number of audiovisual and technical demonstrations. One of the aims is to discuss challenges that could be addressed by the 7th Framework programme of the European Community for Research, Technological development and Demonstration activities by DG INFSO and by DG Research. For more information please see: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict_bio_2006/index_en.htm