COST Action IC604: Eurotelepath


Past news:
June, 25-26. Annual Review Meeting (ARM) in Larnaca, Cyprus: Presentation on achievements of COST Action to the DC-ICT. It is also an occasion for networking between Action Chairs, and the DC-ICT. From Wed 25 June 2008, 13:00 h to Thur 26 June, 13:00.
2^nd Meeting of the Working Group 1 COST ACTION IC0604 –Business Modeling in Pathology will be held during the 3rd Workshop of the Open European Nephrology. Date: May 8th and 09th, 2008 Location: Department of Pathology, Charité University Hospital Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
9th European Congress on Telepathology and 3rd International Congress on Virtual Microscopy Hotel Beatriz, Toledo, Spain, May 15th–17th, 2008. COST Action IC0604 will be presented during this conference. The 2^nd WG2 (Informatics Standards in Pathology) meeting, and joint meetings with IHE-Pathology and DICOM WG26 will he held. http://www.seapcongresos.com/telepathology2008/
	1st and 2nd February, 2008: First Joint MC and WGs meeting Hotel NH Zurbano Zurbano, 79-81, 28003 Madrid (Spain) Tel. +34.91.4414500 http://www.nh-hoteles.es/ Meeting Agenda
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17 Dec 2007: Non-COST countries
Minutes of the kick-off meeting

Coordination of research efforts to develop the most adequate technological framework for the management of multimedia electronic healthcare records (data and images) through the Internet. The Action will consolidate the most renowned research references in the field of informatics applied to Anatomic Pathology in order to eventually develop, with support of national and other European programs, the fusion standards to represent, interpret, browse and retrieve digital medical images while preserving their diagnostic quality as needed for clinical, learning and research purposes. In a latter stage, this coordinated research shall bring about a comprehensive R&D project which will deliver a much needed world wide search engine based on WebServices. This will definitively open the path to integration, search, access, exchange and upgrade of digital pathological images and associated reports among different hospital information systems regardless of their location. Based on common standards developed by European Normalization Committee (CEN), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other bodies (DICOM, HL7, SNOMED), the direct result of this Action shall be a new Pathology Technical Framework (IHE Pathology) to be taken as a new reference standard by the specialized E-health industry as well as the entire medical community.

Keywords: Image Communication, Electronic health record, Pathology PACS, JPEG 2000 protocol, IHE initiative.

Contact information:

Dr. Marcial Garcia Rojo
Servicio de Anatomia Patologica
Hospital General de Ciudad Real
C/ Tomelloso s/n. Poligono Larache
13005 Ciudad Real. Spain
Tfno. +34 926278000 extension 78867
Mobile: +34 638227070
Fax: +34 926278586
E-mail: marcial@cim.es