Let. 40, Št. 2 (2007)

Paolo Inchingolo

University of Trieste, Health Telematics Lab (HTL), Open Source Lab (OSL) and Neuromodelling Lab (NML) at DEEI and Higher Education in Clinical Engineering (SSIC-HECE)

Dejan Dinevski

Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor and Faculty of Education, University of Primorska

Povzetek

Background/Purpose: The Open Three (O3) Consortium is promoting the adoption of Open Source in e-health on regional, European and World-wide levels. This project aims to contribute to the development of e-health through the study of Healthcare Information Systems and the contemporary proposal of new concepts, designs and solutions for the management of health data in an integrated environment of hospitals, Regional Health Information Organizations and citizens (home-care, mobile-care and ambient assisted living). Some concrete technical solutions in the field of medical informatics are presented in this paper. The applications presented are the heart of the Radiology information system, which is open to other health institutions, thus forming a basis for the realization of e-health integration. The formation of a genuine e-health region is just one step forward.

Andrej Krenker

UL Fakulteta za elektrotehniko

Janez Bešter

UL FE

Andrej Kos

UL FE

Povzetek

Background/Purpose: Due to the fact that Slovenia is a small country in every aspect, we should cooperate at all levels of society in order to succeed among the global competition – to turn our smallness into an advantage. Thanks to this smallness everybody knows almost everybody else, which gave us a basis for cooperation in the past. In more recently, various mechanisms have emerged in Slovenia for encouraging more formal ways of cooperation among entities of the society, such as centres of excellence, technology centres, clusters, technology networks and technology platforms. In Slovenia, the players in the area of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) have established a solid tradition of collaboration between companies and research and development (R and D) institutions, which is of great importance in the world where development is rapid and where it is of vital importance for R and D companies to produce new products and solutions as quickly as possible if they want to expand. Today, almost all the leading Slovenian companies in the area of ICT are members of the ICT Technology Network (ICT TN), where they can find a place for cooperation and for the successful development, production and sale of integrated and user-friendly solutions and products. In this paper we will present ICT TN and its organisation. Special attention will be given to presentation of the four projects that members of ICT TN work on. The Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technologies (CE ICT), the Next Generation Network (NGN) Interoperability testing laboratory SINTESIO and the Technology Platforms (TP) are especially interesting projects because it is not just the technological aspect but also the social aspect – in the form of networking and collaboration – which is important.

Jože Gričar

UM FOV eCenter

Povzetek

Background/Purpose: Regional development policy has to respond to the challenges of a global, informational and networked economy. In order to achieve a regional-innovation-focused competitive advantage it is important for the region to have the ability both to access and generate knowledge, and to access to knowledge networks faster than its competitive regions. In this paper, challenges in the area of eRegion development are discussed and some eRegion development initiatives are presented. Some activities from the period 2000-2006 are elaborated on, as are current initiatives in the Central Europe eRegion. Possible suggestions and some questions are concerning about a growing need in the eRegion for innovative ways of business, government and academic collaboration as part of a continuous process.

Jože Gričar

Paolo Inchingolo

Anton Lavrin

Otto Petrovic

Otto Peperna

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, Austria

Guenter Koch

CEIT Central European Institute of Technology, Regional Initiative Schwechat

Dragan Čišić

Faculty of Maritime Studies,University of Rijeka, Studentska 2, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

Pavao Komadina

Faculty of Maritime Studies,University of Rijeka, Studentska 2, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

Zdravko Kardum

Commander in chief, Croatian Navy

Ivana Jošanov

Novi Sad Business School

Borislav Jošanov

Novi Sad Business School

Giorgio Manzoni

Coordinator, Geonetlab; University of Trieste, Italy

Zora Konjovic

The University of Novi Sad

Claudia Robiglio

The University of Verona

John R. Harrald

The George Washington University, 1776 G. Street, NW Washington DC20052, USA

Theresa I. Jefferson

The George Washington University, 1776 G. Street, NW Washington DC20052, USA

Povzetek

Background/Purpose: The past two years have shown both the power of nature and the complexity of preparing for and responding to extreme events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes/typhoons, and floods. These events, and future catastrophic events, will require coordination and collaboration between multiple government and non government organizations across national and state borders. This collaboration will require the discipline necessary to share common processes and procedures, and the agility to improvise plans and actions as situationally required. Information technology must be used to create an eRegion, enabling the shared situational assessments and adequately supporting the collaborative, distributed decision making to produce required decisions and future action plans. The role of information technology in developing these capabilities is discussed in the context of two seismic scenarios, the US New Madrid Seismic Zone, and the Adriatic Seismic region.