The twelth International Conference on e-Health networking, application and services, HealthCom ’10, will be held in Lyon, France at the beginning of July.

The conference aims to bring together clinicians, hospital administrators, IT professionals, researchers, healthcare system suppliers and consultants from across the world to collaborate, discuss health IT solutions and exchange ideas.

The conference, which will run from 1-3 July 2010, will provide a forum for discussions on e-Health projects supported by world bodies such as ITU, WHO and the EU, including FP6 and FP7 European projects.

Keynote speakers include Joel Bacquet and Loukianos Gatzoulis from the ICT for health, DG Information Society and Media that is part of the European Commission, delivering speeches on ‘E-Health and the virtual physiome’ and ‘Supporting research and deployment: EU initiatives in e-health.”

Professor Louis Lareng, the president of the European Telemedicine Society will also speak on the ‘Genesis of telemedicine in Europe.’

The conference will also cover topics such smart homes, m-health, assisted care and electronic patient records and the best papers from the event will be submitted for publication in major international journals.

The conference is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society and also supported by the IEEE-EMBS French chapter, the SFGBM and the GDR-STIC Santé.

Previous HealthCom conference have been in Australia, Italy, France, US, Japan, Korea, India and Singapore.

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