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Selected Highlights
	An overview on the future of healthcare
	Networked healthcare in Germany
	Semantic Medical Devices Space
	Wearable health and life-style assistants
	Interview with Morten Brattvoll from NST

Eurescom mess@ge 1/2007 (March)

ICT and healthcare
 

The Greek physician Hippocrates already said 24 centuries ago:
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings.”

Since the days of Hippocrates, humankind has made enormous progress in medicine in order to preserve the human blessing of health. Despite the fact that today we have the best medical care ever in history, the healthcare systems worldwide are facing enormous challenges. ICT has already made an important contribution to improving healthcare systems worldwide.

However, it looks like we are just at the beginning of a major transformation of healthcare through information and communication technologies. In this issue we will provide a glimpse of the future of ICT-powered healthcare.

The articles in our cover theme include:

An overview on the future of healthcare
The introduction article by Eurescom mess@ge editor-in-chief Milon Gupta provides an overview on the development of ICT and healthcare.

Networked healthcare in Germany
The article by Alice Backes from T-Systems provides a glimpse of the R&D and market activities of Europe’s biggest network operator in the e-health sector.

Semantic Medical Devices Space
Safdar Ali from Fraunhofer IBMT presents an innovative solution in the area of telematics services in home care.

Wearable health and life-style assistants
Researchers from ETH Zürich provide insights into the fascinating developments in the area of wearable healthcare applications.

Interview with Morten Brattvoll from NST
Morten Brattvoll from the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine (NST) shares his insights on the future of healthcare.

IN FOCUS

EUROPEAN ISSUES

Pan-European laboratory
for next generation networks and services
The Pan-European laboratory is a concept that is being introduced to enable the trial and evaluation of service concepts, technologies, system solutions and business models to the point where the risks associated with launching them as commercial products will be minimised. Read the inside report by two Finnish consortium partners of the Panlab project, Susanna Avessta from DIMES and Juha Saarnio from Nokia.

The Future Internet
If you are interested in the Future Internet and how Europe will contribute to its emergence, read the article by Eurescom director David Kennedy.

A BIT BEYOND

From AAA to ZZT
In this issue's “A bit beyond” you will learn almost everything about acronyms and initialisms in ICT you ever wanted to know but never dared – or cared – to ask.
 

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