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- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- eHealth Strategies in European Countries: Study validation workshop
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16 September 2010 Brussels, Belgium
On Sept. 16th the European Commission and empirica, in cooperation with the Belgium Presidency of the EU, will present the final results of the eHealth Strategies study to a wider public. Commissioned by the EC in 2008, the eHealth Strategies study has surveyed the status-quo and assessed the progress made by EU Member States and EEA countries towards realising European eHealth Action Plan goals. The workshop will summarise key outcomes and feature presentations by representatives of national eHealth programmes on lessons learned from eHealth strategic planning and implementation. After a networking lunch and the presentation of good practice cases, policy recommendations for further eHealth diffusion will be discussed. The workshop is free of charge, but by invitation only.
Contact: Interested in participating, please send an email to Ms Walossek stating your specific interest, full name and affiliation
See also: EC eHealth Studies - EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- 1st VPH NoE Workshop on Toolkit Hands-on Training
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6 September 2010 - 8 September 2010 Barcelona, Spain
The event is part of several activities undertaken by the VPH NoE in order to contribute to the consolidation of the VPH community. This event will take place prior to the VPH Industry day that will also take place at UPF from the 8th - 9th September. The toolKit workshop will focus on the identification of 'gaps' in existing tools used by the VPH Community, will promote the use and re-use of these tools in problem-solving activities, and will ultimately encourage the collaborative improvement of such tools. The workshop organisers invite interested researchers and practitioners to submit problems identified in their current research projects which require specific tool support. Proposed problems will be evaluated against the available tools in order to establish the feasibility of a solution emerging within the scope of the workshop. Initial deadline for proposal: 09/07/2010
Contact: k.m.mccormack@sheffield.ac.uk
See also: Further details on the 1st VPH NoE Workshop on Toolkit Hands-on Training - PRESS RELEASE
- Enabling our future: experts to advise Commission on upcoming technologies
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(14 July 2010)Hardly anybody would have forecast 10 years ago that the business world would look as it does today. We use no typewriters any more and most information is available and exchanged electronically. How will the industrial world look in 10 years time? Which products and technologies will we use to produce goods, to do business, to learn, to live and to communicate? To better explore the potential that these technologies can offer, European Commission Vice-Presidents Antonio Tajani, Neelie Kroes and Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn have launched the high-level expert group on key enabling technologies. Key enabling technologies, such as nanotechnology, micro- and nanoelectronics including semiconductors, advanced materials, biotechnology and photonics are of exceptional importance for shaping the industrial future of the EU. The work of this group will eventually contribute to a European strategy for the industrial deployment of such technologies.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- ICT 2010 - networking sessions
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(12 July 2010)85 networking sessions will take place at ICT 2010. You are now able to add your comments to the different sessions and start to plan your agenda for the event. Selected networking sessions will provide you with a forum to exchange ideas and expertise on all scientific and technological subjects directly related to ICT, including FP7, the ICT PSP programme (CIP), and many more. The sessions on the following topics might be of particular interest: Companion robotics, BNCI research, Living Labs and smart ICTs for well-being, an open service platform for interoperable AAL applications.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Pitch your idea – discover investment opportunities at the Ambient Assisted Living Investment Forum
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(5 July 2010)The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Investment Forum aims to stimulate more innovation and investment in AAL by bringing together innovative ICT enterprises in the Ageing Well market with potential public and private investors. A key activity will be a matchmaking session where innovators can pitch their smart solutions to potential investors. The AAL Investment Forum is not just the place to raise capital, it is also an excellent place to 'reality check' a business case. Investors know what works and what doesn't. You can bounce ideas off of them, and identify the trends, risks and successful strategies in the AAL market. The Forum takes place on 14-15 September 2010 at the Odense Congress Centre. Deadline for submitting applications is 2 August 2010.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- "The Telemedicine challenge in Europe"
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(2 July 2010)The aim of this special edition of "The European Files" is to help take stock of the development of telemedicine, in all its diverse forms, and in a range of different environments. It is a collection of accounts and analyses by political and industrial decision-makers, patients and professional healthcare representatives, who seem to be best-placed to communicate messages that are both brief and easily understandable to all audiences. It also aims to clarify the problems which are still holding back the development of telemedicine, and to outline a sketch of what the medicine of tomorrow might look like. Lastly, it demonstrates that only an effort on the part of all actors in medical care will be necessary in order for telemedicine to be accepted by all, and that it will be the role of the political decision-makers to ensure that interministerial mechanisms are developed in such a way as to take into account its multidisciplinary nature.
Contact: dossiers.europeens@wanadoo.fr
See also: Previous File "eHealth in Europe" - NEWS ARTICLE
- Telehealth home monitoring system helps heart failure patients in Spain
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(2 July 2010)The CAtalan Remote Management Evaluation (CARME) study has shown that patients with heart failure who used an interactive telehealth system with motivational support tools at home spent 73 % fewer days in hospital. The findings of the study were presented during the 'Heart Failure Congress 2010' held in Berlin on 29 May - 01 June 2010.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Clinical trials to assess the VPHOP technology started
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(2 July 2010)The clinical data collection started this month in three (UGE, CHA and IOR) of the four partner hospitals. Each centre enrols about 40 patients who are undergoing the VPHOP clinical data collection protocol. The protocol consists of exams like questionnaire, DXA, fasting blood samples, physical activity tests and additional optional radiographic exams like CTs. The data collected will be used to assess the value of the VPHOP technology by the end of August 2011.
See also: additional details
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Complete female 3D human skeleton model available on PhysiomeSpace (LHDL project)
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(29 June 2010)Super Computing Solutions –SCS- and the Computational Bioengineering Lab –BIC- by the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna (Italy) announced on 29 June the release of the first dataset that composes the Living Human Digital Library –LHDL- multiscale musculoskeletal data collection. The data represent the three-dimensional skeletal anatomy of the cadaver of a 78 years old woman with normal morphology (height: 171 cm, weight: 64 kg, from now on referred to as "LHDL_Donor1"). The consortium will now start releasing various datasets with a cadence of two weeks. By the end of the 2010 the entire LHDL multiscale collection on LHDL_Donor1 will be made available.
Contact: bic@ior.it
See also: How to get access to the service
New in the Library
- PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL
- Digital Agenda for Europa: More documents available in all EU languages
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12 July 2010
In addition to the strategy and the press release, more documents are now available in all the EU languages, in particular the factsheets "Key initiatives" and "Digital Agenda: what would it do for me?" on the impact on various social groups.
- SPEECH
- Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda., Facilitating a competitive environment for SMEs to develop future Internet business models
Telecom Conference of the SME Union. Brussels, 14 July 2010.
- SPEECH
- Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Working together to implement the Digital Agenda
Meeting with representatives from European ICT Industry organised by Spanish Presidency, Madrid, 30th June 2010
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