Your digital venture revolves around orthopaedics and trauma? Come to Berlin or present online! Send us a short pitch-deck (max. 7 slides) until February 15th, 2026. The best 6 ideas will be invited to present live in Berlin. The winner will be identified in Berlin by a jury hosted by Dr. Yin Cai and and Dr. Lucas Mittelmeier will receive an award. Send your pitch to pitch[at]otdigital.eu!
It is our great pleasure to announce new publication from Polish Telemedicine and e-Health Society „Translation and Validation of the User Version of the Mobile Application Rating Scale Into the Polish Language: Cross-Sectional Methodological Study” authored by Wojciech Glinkowski, Tomasz Cedro, Joanna Nowicka, Rafał Doniec, Bartłomiej Michalak, Bożena Glinkowska, Stoyan Stoyanov. We hope this paper and methodology now adapted to users in Poland will help increase quality assessment of e-Health and m-Health solutions for both users and creators.
Open Access URL: https://formative.jmir.org/2026/1/e65067.
Abstract
Background: Mobile health (mHealth) apps can innovatively diagnose, prevent, and treat many diseases. The increasing use of mHealth apps necessitates an appropriate assessment standard.
Objective: This study aimed to translate the User Version of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (uMARS) into Polish, followed by validation, cultural adaptation, and examination of its reliability and validity.
Methods: The Polish version of uMARS was adapted, translated, and validated based on the free STOP COVID ProteGO Safe app available for Android and iOS platforms. A total of 117 participants rated the app using the translated scale and rerated it 1 week later
Results: The conceptual equivalence of all items and subscales of the original uMARS and its Polish version was confirmed. The translated uMARS scale exhibited high reliability (Cronbach α=0.95). The perceived test-retest reliability and total influence score were acceptable, with intraclass correlation coefficient values of 0.59 and 0.65, respectively
Conclusions: The translated scale matched the reliability of the original scale. It can help users choose the best mHealth apps available in Poland and report their quality. The Polish version of uMARS was cross-culturally validated and was found to be as reliable as the original uMARS. The translated and validated uMARS tool can be used to evaluate mHealth apps in various aspects. App developers can reliably assess app components and determine areas that require further improvement and development to deliver higher-quality apps. The Polish version of the uMARS can become a standard tool for evaluating the quality of mHealth apps in Poland.
JMIR Form Res 2026;10:e65067
Drodzy Telemedycy, z okazji Świąt Bożego Narodzenia życzymy Wam dużo zdrowia (tego nigdy za wiele!), spokoju ducha, czasu dla bliskich oraz chwili na prawdziwy oddech od codziennych wyzwań. Niech te Święta będą nie tylko momentem wytchnienia, lecz także źródłem radości, otwartości i nowych pomysłów – zarówno w życiu prywatnym, jak i w naszej wspólnej pracy. Obyśmy nadal działali z pasją, współtworząc nowoczesną, empatyczną i przyjazną opiekę zdrowotną. Do zobaczenia – oby jak najczęściej twarzą w twarz!
The new issue of the International Journal of Telerehabilitation, sponsored by Hawaii Pacific University, is now available at: https://telerehab.hpu.edu
IJT enjoys a diverse international audience due to the expanding global relevance of telemedicine, telehealth, and telerehabilitation. In this issue, we are honored to present original work from: Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, New Zealand, the Netherlands, United States, and Ukraine. The articles represent the work of over 50 authors!
Articles from countries featured in past issues include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States.
IJT will next be open for new submissions on January 12, 2026, for about a month.
Respectfully,
Co-Editors: Ellen R. Cohn and Jana Cason
Dear eTELEMED friends, hopefully you enjoyed the program and the logistics during the eTELEMED 2025 held in Nice, France and also with a heavy online presence. We thank everyone for help, contribution, and participation.
We continue to develop programs to raise the visibility and quality of the IARIA conferences through:
1. Panels, Speeches, and Tutorials:
A compedium of the slides used during the panels and speeches are posted.
Tutorials are also available.
2. The on line journals
The online journals are a compedium of extended versions submitted by invitation only from the outstanding IARIA conference papers, either awarded or with high quality ones. The authors get invitation and instructions for submissions; paper reviews will follow the same process and use the same tools as for a conference. One journal covers topics from multiple conferences; special issues are possible.
We expect two issues a year for each journal, with a publishing lifecycle of about 6 months.
3. IARIA Facebook group
A Facebook group was created in order to provide an informal gathering group for people attending IARIA conferences. It mostly receives photos drectly from the event location both from the organizers as well as the attendees. Feel free to join and participate.
4. Awards
The conference awards are also posted
eTELEMED 2026 is scheduled to be in Venice, Italy during May 24 – 28, 2026 under the DigitalWorld 2026 umbrella.
IARIA Board.
Dear friends, our board member Dr. Rafał DONIEC is the Guest Editor of the MDPI Applied Sciences Special Issue „AI for Medical Systems: Algorithms, Applications, and Challenges” [1]. We warmly invite and encourage you to publish research results with us!
[1] https://www.mdpi.com/journal/
Zmiany, które jeszcze dekadę temu wydawały się science fiction, wkrótce mogą stać się codziennością, np. w ortopedii. Jak mówił dr hab. Wojciech Glinkowski w czasie konferencji MedTech 2025*, od digitalizacji (przeniesienie danych do postaci cyfrowej) przechodzimy powoli do pełnej transformacji cyfrowej, która przebudowuje procesy, role i relacje.
Zapraszamy do lektury pełnego artykułu pod adresem: https://www.farmaprom.pl/blog/od-rtg-do-cyfrowego-blizniaka-podroz-przez-medycyne-jutra/
Putting precision health into practice requires the involvement of many stakeholders and a redesign of the entire healthcare system and its processes. Join us as we bring together policy-makers, industry leaders and other key stakeholders to share what´s in the making for 3rd Radical Health Festival Helsinki and discuss our 2026 overarching theme: ¨Operationalising Precision Health – A Paradigm Shift¨.
On the agenda:
– Welcom from the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and the City of Helsinki
– Overarching theme and draft programme matrix
– Content partners & collaboration guidelines
– Visibility opportunities for solution providers
– What’s new in 2026
Speakers include:
Dr. Päivi Sillanaukee, Special Envoy for Health and Wellbeing, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
Juha Jolkkonen, Executive Director – Social Services, Health Care and Rescue Services Division, Finland
Pascal Lardier & Sean Roberts, éditohealth (Spain and France)
📅 When: Thursday, 19 June 2025
🕥 Time: 10:30–11:30 CET
💻 Where: Online
HIGHWAY TO HELsinki is now open. This isn’t just a meeting. It’s your chance to help shape #RadicalHealth 2026. Let’s build it together. 🔗 Register here.
President of Polish Telemedicine and e-Health Society, Wojciech GLINKOWSKI (MD PhD), will give a lecutre „Strategic Insights and Research Priorities from OTDigital, the European platform for digitalisation in orthopaedics” at EORS (European Orthopaedic Research Society) Symposium at EFORT 2025, held on 11-13 June 2025, at Lyon (France).
Telemedycyna, systemy informacyjne, bioinformatyka, Internet Rzeczy, sztuczna inteligencja, drukowanie 3D, robotyka, zdalne monitorowanie pacjentów, oraz technologie teleinformatyczne mają i będą miały coraz większy wpływ na medycynę. Warto więc o nich rozmawiać, by jak najlepiej wykorzystać możliwości, które dają, unikając ewentualnych problemów, które mogą tworzyć. której celem jest wspieranie współpracy naukowo-badawczej między kadrą medyczną a środowiskiem naukowym w zakresie optymalizacji technologii teleinformatycznych w medycynie.
Serdecznie zapraszamy na Konferencję MedTech 2025, która odbędzie się 2025-06-25 w Auli budynku 32 5-go Wojskowego Szpitala Klinicznego z Polikliniką SPZOZ w Krakowie (ul. Wrocławska 1-3). Celem konferencji jest wspieranie współpracy naukowo-badawczej między kadrą medyczną a środowiskiem naukowym w zakresie optymalizacji technologii teleinformatycznych w medycynie.
Link do rejestracji: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6aaY3rUMwYKPNx5rrOAQ9AIka1j4drpHxnu8mnVkqUTjPew/viewform
Hello Open Healthware Participants! If you are working in the healthcare or open medical hardware field, we invite you to attend in-person the Open Healthware Conference in New York City, August 1-2, 2025, to learn from and collaborate with like-minded people. The Open Source Hardware Association is hosting its first ever open hardware conference specific to the healthcare and medical device world.
Attend:
Join us in-person at the Open Healthware Conference, August 1 & 2, 2025 in New York City at Cornell Tech. Tickets are free, please RSVP!
Speak:
We are interested in your participation for talks and demo tables! The Call for Proposals is open through June 16, 2025.
Travel assistance:
We can fund travel assistance for 20 people at 1,000 USD each. To apply for travel funding, please fill out this form.
More information: Visit our conference website for more information: https://healthware.oshwa.org/
Funding for this event is made possible by the National Science Foundation.
Thank you,
Alicia Seidle
Executive Director
Open Source Hardware Association
Serdecznie zapraszamy do uczestnictwa w Międzynarodowym Sympozjum Warsztatowym Telemedycyna i eZdrowie 2025. Sympozjum jest dodatkowym wydarzeniem obok Konferencji Międzynarodowej, której organizację nasze Stowarzyszenie rozpoczęło już w 2004 roku nieprzerwanie również podczas pandemii COVID-19. W tym roku współorganizatorami są Wydział Medyczny Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie oraz Zakład Informatyki Medycznej i Telemedycyny Warszawskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego. Warsztaty mają charakter hybrydowy z możliwością uczestnictwa osobistego i online. Link do streamingu pojawi się na stronie wydarzenia, rejestracja nie jest wymagana, udział jest bezpłatny. Konferencja odbędzie się w dwóch osobnych lokalizacjach w Warszawie w dniach 21-22.05.2025. Do zobaczenia!
The upcoming International Workshop Symposium Telemedicine and eHealth 2025, in addition to the International Conference organized by the Polish Telemedicine and eHealth Society annually since 2004 and have continued without interruption also during COVID-19 pandemic. This year conference is co-organized together with Collegium Medicum of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw and Department of Medical Informatics and Telemedicine of Warsaw Medical University. Workshops will be held hybrid, both in person and online presence is possible. Link to the conference will be provided on the event website, attendance is free of charge, no registration is required. Conference takes place in two separate locations in Warsaw on 21-22.05.2025. See you there!
Just a friendly reminder: the deadline to submit your application for the 2025 (eng)aging! Conference & Technology Fair, taking place in Prague on June 5–6, 2025, is May 16.
At the technology fair, technological visions, solutions, innovations, services, and products for current and future generations of older persons and their specific needs will be presented.Integrating appropriate technological innovations can help older persons to achieve longer healthy and active lives, enhance their safety and overall well-being, and increase their engagement in all areas of societal life. This can also increase their self-confidence and sense of self-efficacy, as well as reduce their social isolation. Additionally, it can reduce the burden on healthcare systems and improve access to quality health and social care.
We encourage the submission of applications in the areas listed below though the list is not exhaustive.
• Tech innovations beneficial for healthy ageing;
• Artificial intelligence in treatment and prevention of diseases;
• Technological solutions in caring;
• Assistive technologies for dementia patience and their carers;
• Smart homes;
• Wearable devices for emergency alert enhancing the safety of older adults;
• Technologies and online platforms for community engagement and social inclusion;
• Technologies for lifelong learning.
Zdrowych spokojnych Świąt Wielkiej Nocy spędzonych w rodzinnej atmosferze, mokrego dyngusa, oraz spełnienia telemedycznych marzeń na przyszłość!
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are delighted to invite you to participate in the upcoming conference “Development of cross-border e-health services from the EU citizen’s perspective – opportunities and challenges”, organised by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Poland as part of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The event will bring together representatives from European institutions, national policymakers, health sector experts, patient organisations, and industry leaders. It will serve as a unique platform to discuss and exchange insights on the future of cross-border e-health services and the use of health data across Europe.
The draft conference programme is attached for your reference. The conference will be conducted in English.
If you intend to participate in person, please pre-register via the form.
Pre-registration is open until 15 April 2025. Please note that venue capacity is limited, and the organiser reserves the right to confirm your participation. Once your pre-registration is accepted, you will receive information about the accreditation process required to access the conference venue.
The conference will be available to watch online through the Ministry of Health YouTube profile [2].
For more information please visit the event website [1].
We are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference.
Kind regards,
Ministry of Health Presidency Team
[1] https://polish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/events/the-development-of-cross-border-health-services-in-e-health-from-the-eu-citizens-perspective-chances-and-challenges-conference
[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTZL6hGYpx8VovtxLxhP88A/featured
[3] https://forms.office.com/e/aJZAua9EHA