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mHealth Summit 2010

Earlier this month, a conference on mHealth was held in Washington DC (Nov 8-10). Policy makers, company representatives, technical people, health professionals and people from the academia came together for presentations, expert panels, networking and sharing of experiences. Different mHealth services and products were introduced, and trends in mobility and mobile applications were discussed.

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IADIS e-Health 2010 Conference July 29 – 31, 2010

In late July, I participated in the IADIS conference on e-Health (a part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems). The conference was held in Freiburg, Germany, located close to the borders to Switzerland and France. At the conference, I presented a paper written together with Hélène Sandmark. The title of our paper is “Multiple Help Online: An Integrated E-health System for Stress Management”. As a committee member of the conference, I also chaired one of the… Continue reading

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Accepted paper "Multiple Help Online: An Integrated E-Health System for Stress Management"

Hélène Sandmark at the School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, and I have got a conference paper accepted at IADIS e-Health 2010. The conference is to be held in Freiburg, Germany, in late July. The paper is entitled “Multiple Help Online: An Integrated E-Health System for Stress Management”. Please see the paper abstract below.

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Microsoft Research Event – Enabling Innovation through Research

On the 5th of May, 2010, I visited Microsoft research lab in Cambridge, outside London, for their event on Enabling Innovation through Research. Microsoft Research Cambridge is one of six Microsoft research labs in the world. The event was introduced by a keynote speech given by Andrew Herbert, the managing director of the lab. It showed that they have a wide range of research areas spanning from disease modeling and advertisements to inference and cloud computing. The lunch break that followed… Continue reading

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Accepted Paper "Stress Management 2.0 – A Holistic Approach to Self-management Online"

Hélène Sandmark and I have recently got a conference paper accepted at the International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, within the conference theme Bio-Medical Informatics. The conference is to be held 6-9 April, in Orlando, Florida, USA. We are…

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Research project proposal – Stress Management 2.0

The interdisciplinary research group at DSV working with stress management and e-health communities has submitted a research project proposal to FAS – Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv och socialvetenskap/ Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research – in February this year. The project aims at developing a web based platform that will help working people with stress-related symptoms to increase their…

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Book Project – E-Health Communities and Online Self-Help Groups: Applications and Usage

Hi,
I am in the process of editing a book entitled “E-Health Communities and Online Self-Help Groups: Applications and Usage” to be published by IGI Global (www.igi-global.com) scheduled for release in 2011. If you have ideas for a book chapter in this area, I would very much like you to contribute to the book. Or, perhaps you know someone that could be interested, who can be invited to send a chapter proposal. Call for chapters is available at … Continue reading

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Lunch seminar on e-health communities

Yesterday, on December 3, we had a lunch seminar on “E-health communities” at SYSLAB. I gave my view of the area and related to some of my research findings.

The seminar focused on e-health communities for people who suffer from established bad (unhealthy) habits, who try to lose weight or quit smoking. These communities aim at helping people change habits,… Continue reading

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