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EU eEurope eHealth 2005

From the authors: “The Information Society offers new possibilities for improving almost every aspect of healthcare, from making medical systems more powerful to providing better health information to everyone. The impact of e-Health is, therefore, is as diverse as the sector itself, encompassing the quality of health-related Web content, patient data security, 'telemedicine' technologies, tackling administrative headaches for hospital staff, doctors and patients, and much more.”

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/2005

Studies of the ICTs for Health Unit

In this section of their website the unit presents their actual and coming studies

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/studies/

EU Directorate H - ICT For Citizens and Businesses

mission statement by the authors: “The mission of the unit is to contribute to the Lisbon Strategy in making Europe the most competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010 through RTD in intelligent environments that enable ubiquitous management of citizens' health status and assist health professionals in coping with major health challenges”

http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_c/ehealth/

eHealth Insider Newsservice

Close to IT industry; statement by the authors: “Founded by Jon Hoeksma and Linda Davidson, two journalists with extensive experience of healthcare reporting and analysis, E-Health Media promotes editorial excellence in e-health. This means working with editorial content accurately and with insight, writing in a jargon-free way and really understanding the needs of clients and readers. Services offered include:
News services covering all aspects of e-health
Online editorial content management and consultancy
E-mail newsletters
Conference reporting
Feature writing
Research and market intelligence”

www.e-health-insider.com

World Summit on the Information Society – Tunis 2005

The World Summit on the Information Society is held in two phases. The second phase of WSIS took place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia from 16 to 18 November 2005

http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/index.html

XIX. International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics

http://www.mie2005.net/80_Workshops.htm

eHealth Forum Gastein 2005

 www.ehfg.org

Telemed & eHealth '05: Meeting healthcare challenges

This international conference examines the potential for e-health applications to improve the quality of care for those with chronic conditions
http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/fmttelem.htm#november

UK Green Book, Appraisal and evaluation in central government

The Green Book describes how the economic, financial, social and environmental assessments of a policy, programme or project should be combined.
Introduction
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/economic_data_and_tools/greenbook/
Full text version

http://greenbook.treasury.gov.uk/