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6.7.2009
14th ISfTeH International Conference Call for abstracts extended till July 20th.
The deadline to submitting your Abstract for a presentation at the forthcoming 14th ISfTeH International Conference in Moscow has been extended till July 20th.
Please register and send in your abstract via :
http://e-health2009.imbp.ru/page12e-s.html

14th ISfTeH International Conference will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of topics related to the theme: "ANTI-CRISIS AND INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH"
(http://e-health2009.imbp.ru/)
11.03.2009
The board of FSTeH has accepted a new correspondent, Sana Ullah PhD, Wireless Body Area Networks, Inha University, South Korea.
30.09.2008
Submission deadline for ISMICT 2009 has been extended to October 24th. Third International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technologies (ISMICT 2009) February 24, 2009 - February 26, 2009, Montreal, QC, Canada. http://www.ismict2009.org/callforpapers.html
11.09.2008
August 12th, 2008 the board of FSTeH has accepted a new correspondent, Dr. Femi Oyeyemi, Medical Practitioner, State Specialist Hospital, Akure, Nigeria.
08.07.2008
Telehealth 2008 conference is open for registration. The Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Telehealth is scheduled to take place in Ottawa, Ontario October 4th thru' 7th. The theme for this years conference is "Convergence to Care: Patients, Providers and Technology" and the meeting is being held in conjunction with the International Society for Telemedicine and e-Health. The ISfTeH General Assembly 2008 will also take place within the frame of this event (Saturday 4th October, 2008). Please, register at http://www.cst-sct.org/en/
30.06.2008
Call for Papers FUNDATEL 2008, the First International Conference of Telemedicine, November 27.-29., 2008, Parana, ER, Argentina. Deadline for Full Paper Submission: August 15, 2008. For more information, please, see www.fundatel.org.ar./fundatel2008
03.06.2008
First Call for Papers for the Third International Symposium on Medical Information & Communication Technology (ISMICT) to be held in Montreal on February 24 - 26, 2009. "Emerging wireless information technologies"or "Applications for healthcare" Please, see www.ismict2009.org
28.04.2008
New correspondent members have been accepted by the board: Zaheer Abbas (ICT for Health, Cairo), Athanasios Anastasiou (University of Plymouth, UK) and Dr Md. Asaduzzaman Khan (Bangladesh Society for Telemedicine and eHealth, Bangladesh)

New company members are Fujitsu Services Oy and Remote Analysis Oy
11.04.2008
Deadline date for abstract submission for 13th ISfTeH International Conference - 2008 - Ottawa is April 30, 2008. The 13th The Conference will take place in Ottawa (Canada), October 5th-7th 2008, in conjunction with the 11th Annual AGM, Conference and Trade Show of the C.S.T. - S.C.T. For more information see website at http://www.cst-sct.org
16.01.2008
Joint call in the field of ubiquitous computing (Academy of Finland and Japan Society for the promotion of Science, JSPS). More detailed guidelines in the January 2008 call for applications ( http://www.aka.fi/Tiedostot/Hakuilmoitukset/Ubiquitous_IT%20AF-JSPS%20core%20call%202008_FINAL_CHK.pdf )
16.12.2007
Call for abstracts for posters to be presented at XIII National Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth April 2-4, 2008. Please, find instructions for authors and more information at National conference 2008
15.12.2007
National Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth 2008 – Program now available here
10.12.2007
ISfTeH newsletter will be issued quarterly. It will introduce to the audience the interesting and actual data in the field of telemedicine and eHealth presented by ISfTeH members and partners. The new Editor-in-chief is Eka Kldiashvili, Ph.D., Newsletter Workgroup of ISfTeH, Georgian Telemedicine Union (Association)
03.12.2007
Call for papers for the 2008 Annual Meetings of ISCAS, EuroPACS, CAR, CMI, and CAD during CARS 2008 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 22nd International Congress and Exhibition, June 25 -28, 2008, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.cars-int.org/
The new official name of the society is Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth (FSTeH)
7th International Conference on Successes and Failures in Telehealth, 27 - 28 August 2007 , Queensland, Australia. Register Now - EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE. More information: www.uq.edu.au/sft
FST had the annual General Assembly Meeting on 26.4.2007 during the National Telemedicine and eHealth conferene in Kuopio. The new board was elected: President, Mr. Jarmo Reponen, Vice-President, Ms. Sinikka Salo, members Ms. Anja Kettunen, Mr. Arto Holopainen, Ms. Anne Kallio, Mr. Seppo Savikurki and Mr. Raino Saarela. The action plan for next year will focus on e.g. founding a new e-journal together with Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association – FinnSHIA.
For more detailed information please, see
Board and the membership area.
The Annual eHealth award was given by FST to 'Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward'-service. The Tutuks-service is aimed at families who want to familiarize themselves with the facilities and nursing practices of a maternity clinic on the Internet - in virtual reality and free from the confines of time and place. The service provides expecting families information on what will happen during their stay at the clinic. The information content of the service is professionally verified. The project realization was carried out in co-operation with the Kuopio University Hospital departments of gynecology and obstetrics as well as City of Kuopio Social- and Health Services and Maternity- and Child Care Guidance Centre unit personnel. http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/
The new website of the NTA is now online. Please take a look at http://www.nordictelemedicine.org
JTTA, Japan Telemedicine and Telecare Association organized a special forum on telemedicine and telecare in Finland and Japan. The seminar took place in Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, in May, 2006. Brief report will be found from membership area/ congressreports.

Tetsuo Sakamaki, Takashi Hasegawa, Tae Kameda, Kiyoshi Takizawa and Masaomi Takizawa from Japan have been accepted as foreign correspondents for FTA (13.6.2006).

The president of Finnish Society of Telemedicine, Mr. Jarmo Reponen has been nominated as the president of Nordic Telemedicine Association.
More information http:// www.nordictelemedicine.org


Dr. Sinikka Salo, former secretary of Finnish Society of Telemedicine, has been nominated as Business Development Director of Finnish Wellbeing Center in Sendai, Japan, since April 2005. In R&D Unit, both Finnish and local companies jointly develop new welfare equipment and services by utilizing know-how of Finnish welfare services for the elderly. New services and products in the field of health and welfare are developed jointly by both Finnish and local companies and universities. The main contextual themes of the R&D activities will be:
- ageing society
- services for older persons, including wellbeing technologies
- gerontology (ageing as a process and as a problem). Please, see http://sendai.fwbc.jp/ for further information
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