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- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Pervasive Health Conference 2011
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23 May 2011 - 26 May 2011 Dublin, Ireland
The 2011 Pervasive Healthcare conference aims to gather technology experts, practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based technologies, standards and procedures. The theme of this year's conference is: "Coping with the Challenges and opportunities within Pervasive E-Healthcare (COPE)", with a special focus on pervasive healthcare management and its ability to deliver timely, quality based information to medical practitioners in providing high levels of patient care.
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Standards : an Architecture for the Smart Grid
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5 April 2011 - 6 April 2011 Sophia Antipolis, France
Smart Grid is now widely seen as a major industry and societal evolution where the convergence of power and ICT industries and technologies is going to bring major changes in people's lifes. It is also clear that this will happen over many years and only if the standards needed for such a complex evolution are available and able to evolve over the years. After an initial phase of gap analysis and the identification of immediately applicable standards, activity in standardisation is now addressing the longer term challenges of building new standards wherever it is needed. The standards community is gradually realising that the full deployment of a variety of new applications (e.g. electrical vehicle, integration of renewables) will require a well thought architecture encompassing a variety of facets: functions, communications, security, information. The workshop will address some of the aspects of standards development with an architectural approach, from understanding the requirements and the underlying use cases to the long-term challenges posed to research.
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- The role of technology in achieving extended life years
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1 March 2011 Vienna, Austria
This European Forum will look at the role of technology in achieving extended life years. Presentations and discussions will examine the scientific, end user and private sector perspective and introduce ongoing key European projects in this area.
- PRESS RELEASE
- Innovation – key issues for the European Council
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(1 February 2011) Common action at the EU level can add real value by improving the framework conditions for research and innovation in the EU. The Europe 2020 flagship initiative on an Innovation Union describes how Europe can deliver real added-value to boost innovation. Europe must become an environment conducive to innovation, through effective standardisation, better use of intellectual property rights, innovation-friendly public procurement and measures to help small, innovative companies to secure financing. This memo outlines some of the key issues that are on the table of this week's European Council meeting.
- PRESS RELEASE
- New Innovation Union Scoreboard: main competitors outpace the EU despite progress in many Member States
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(1 February 2011) The EU is failing to close the innovation performance gap with its main international competitors: the US and Japan. Although the trends in most EU Member States are promising despite the economic crisis, progress is not fast enough. While the EU still maintains a clear lead over the emerging economies of India and Russia, Brazil is making steady progress, and China is catching up rapidly. Within the EU, Sweden is the most impressive performer followed by Denmark, Finland and Germany. The UK, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Luxembourg, France, Cyprus, Slovenia and Estonia, in that order, form the next group. These are some of the main conclusions from the 2010 Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) published today by the European Commission. This is the first edition under the Innovation Union initiative and replaces the former European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). The Scoreboard feeds into the recently published Annual Growth Survey to help Member States identify strengths and weaknesses and to boost innovation performance through their Europe 2020 National Reform Programmes.
See also: The Innovation Union Scoreboard: Monitoring the innovation performance of the 27 EU Member States
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Deploying telemedicine at scale
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(28 January 2011) Among all aspects of eHealth, remote delivery of health services using ICT, or, in short, "tele-medicine" or "tele-health", probably represents the most radical concept. By doing away with many traditional notions concerning physical contact between doctor and patient and by transcending distances, it exhibits the potential for transforming care well beyond our current perceptions. Implemented effectively and deployed at scale, telemedicine can dramatically reduce hospital admissions; it can provide better quality of life, especially for long term conditions patients, and can contribute decisively to the sustainability of national healthcare systems. Read more on ePractice.
Contact: eHealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: eHealth at EC - NEWS ARTICLE
- Future research activities in the field of e-Government - Online survey to be published soon
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(31 January 2011) Framework Programme 8 (FP8) is expected to start in 2014 with ICT for Government as one of its key elements. Through this survey, the European Commission would like to get your opinion to help shape the future research activities in this field. A summary of the survey results will be published later.
- PRESS RELEASE
- European Commission consults on the modernisation of the European Public Procurement Market
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(27 January 2011) Public procurement accounts for roughly 17% of the EU's GDP. In times of tight budgets and economic difficulties in many Member States, public procurement policy must ensure the most efficient use of public funds, with a view to supporting growth and job creation. This would require flexible and user-friendly tools that make transparent and competitive contract awards as easy as possible for European public authorities and their suppliers. With these objectives in mind, the European Commission has today launched a consultation. This open debate with interested parties will focus on the modernisation of the rules, tools and methods for public procurement to deliver better on these goals. The deadline for responses to the Green Paper is 18 April 2011.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Data Protection Day: guaranteeing individuals' privacy rights
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(27 January 2011) Nowadays the exchange of information across the globe has become easier and faster. An individual's personal data – email, photos and electronic agendas – may be created in the UK using software hosted in Germany; processed in India; stored in Poland and accessed in Spain by an Italian citizen. This rapid increase in information flows around the world presents a big challenge for individuals' rights to personal data privacy. Data protection issues, including their cross-border dimension, affect people every day – at work, in dealing with public authorities, when buying goods or services, or when travelling or surfing the internet. Today – on Data Protection Day – the Council of Europe and the European Commission are joining forces to promote the fundamental right to data protection.
- CALL FOR TENDERS
- Prior Information Notice - Quantifying public procurement of research and development of ICT solutions in Europe
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The purpose of the study is: — to gather quantitative evidence of the amount of, on the one hand, the amount of R&D, and, on the other hand, the amount of ICT products and services, that is procured by public contracting authorities across the EU Member States and associated countries (across different levels of administration: such as national, regional and local level), — to cross-reference these 2 data sets, providing quantitative evidence of the amount of ICT-related R&D that is procured by public contracting authorities, — to cluster this data on a map that shows in which main fields of public interest (public transport, e-government, energy, environment, healthcare, security) the above procurement expenditures occur.
Contact: infso-c2@ec.europa.eu
- CALL FOR TENDERS
- Prior Information Notice 2010/S 254-389984 - Survey on the deployment and take up of e-health solutions by specialists and/or general practitioners in Europe
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The objective of the study is to collect measurements on the level of deployment and use of e-health services in the EU-27, Iceland, Norway and Turkey. The overall aim is to develop a better understanding of the level of progress implementing health networks and services as specified in the e-health action plan in the different countries.
Contact: infso-c4@ec.europa.eu
New in the Library
- AUDIOVISUAL
- Playing for Health : how videogames can help to treat diseases
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1 February 2011
Euronews reports about Playmancer, an EU funded project that looks into how videogames can help to treat diseases as diverse as addiction to gambling, eating disorders and back and neck chronic pain. The videogame has already been developed, and is currently under clinical trials in Barcelona and Enschede (Netherlands) with real patients. Euronews filmed these clinical trials and talked to the patients, clinicians, developers and therapists involved.
- SPEECH
- eHealth: an answer to EU healthcare and demographic challenges
ETNO Innovation Day 2011, Brussels, 25 January 2011
- SPEECH
- Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Research and innovation – simpler funding and roadmap towards the new programme
Opening remarks at the Commission midday press conference, Brussels, 24th January 2011
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