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- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- EU funded project HeartCycle in the forthcoming EMBC2011
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30 August 2011 - 3 September 2011 Boston, USA
In order to disseminate the most recent project achievements and contribute in the advancement of individualised healthcare, Prof Nicos Maglaveras will chair and Elina Matilla will co-chair a session during the 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC2011) in Bostos. It is entitled "CLOSING THE LOOP IN PHS TELEMONITORING SYSTEMS: HOW FAR HAVE WE GONE?", under the 'Healthcare Information Systems, Telemedicine' Theme (Track 10.1).
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: EC funded project under Personal Health Systems - NEWS ARTICLE
- Telehealth in support of integrated care: Call for submission of success stories - Ddl 31/07/2011
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(7 June 2011) The Telehealth Campaign is a series of initiatives whose objectives are to increase the collaboration and awareness about telehealth in support of integrated care in Europe amongst all the relevant stakeholders. The current promoters, representing patients, hospitals, health managers, health insurers and industry are AIM, EHMA, EPF, COCIR, CONTINUA, EHTEL and HOPE. The Telehealth Campaign is calling for submissions of successful Telehealth stories to be part of a brochure titled "Real Telehealth Stories". The brochure will be disseminated across a wide audience, namely the EU institutions, national and regional policymakers and officials, patients, healthcare professionals and managers, and industry. If you would like to contribute to the development of Telehealth in Europe and let the world know about your work, then submit your success Telehealth story.
Contact: Send your successful stories
- NEWS ARTICLE
- WHO Bulletin - Establishing an evidence base for e-health: a call for papers - Ddl: 20/11/2011
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(1 June 2011) The first objective of this theme issue of the Bulletin is to provide an authoritative, critical and independent overview of knowledge about the appropriate, transdisciplinary methods and applications in e-health. The second objective of this theme issue is to include contributors from developing countries who typically do not have the opportunity to publish in international journals. A third objective is to disseminate the key findings of this theme issue to high-level decision-makers, to promote a stronger commitment on e-health interoperability issues and its wider application.
See also: Submit before 20 November 2011
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Ask your question to the speakers of the Digital Assembly Workshop "Addressing demographic change: a socio-economic challenge and opportunity for Europe"
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(6 June 2011) The aim of the workshop is to present progress in the pilot European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing and invite stakeholder feedback. Members of the Steering Group of this EIP will highlight its first areas of work. Stakeholders will have the opportunity to contribute their feedback, suggestions and experiences to the session, draw inspiration from others' experiences as well as find potential partners. Registration to the Digital Assembly has now closed. However, even if you cannot attend, you can ask your questions to the speakers via the Comment box on this page. Please indicate whether your question is for industry, government or users representatives. A report of the workshop will be made available shorlty after the event.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Brainport region is the 'smartest region of the world'
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(3 June 2011) Brainport region -Eindhoven, Helmond and around- was rewarded last friday the 'smartest region of the world' in New York by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) under the theme Health & ICT. This is one more example of the added value that regions can have in boosting innovation. To drive further growth, Brainport created a project called Brainport Health Innovation (BHI). Its goals are to foster increased well-being for the elderly and chronically ill, to reduce healthcare costs and increase productivity, and to do so while generating economic opportunities for the region.
Contact: emermans@brabant.nl
See also: More about Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) - NEWS ARTICLE
- A Giant Step for Ageing Research in Europe - call for multidisciplinary research applications
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(6 June 2011) The European Research Area in Ageing (ERA-AGE 2) has launched Europe's first joint research programme in the ageing field by publishing a call for multidisciplinary research applications on "Active and Healthy Ageing Across the Life Course". The call is dedicated to the achievement of enhanced and healthy ageing and, in particular, to address the major priority established by the AHAIP (Active and Healthy Ageing Innovation Partnership) of a 2 year increase in healthy life expectancy in the European Union by 2020. Twelve funders in nine countries have committed €4.2 million to fund research projects of up to three years. This is Europe's first joint call for ageing research and follows the second round of ERA-AGE's post-doctoral fellowship programme, FLARE (Future Leaders of Ageing Research in Europe). Applications are invited from multidisciplinary research groups representing 3 to 5 funding countries. Stage-one pre-proposals can be submitted between 1 June 2011 and 3 October 2011 to investigate specific research questions related to these three objectives of the call: - Generate new knowledge on the biological, clinical, behavioural, social and environmental factors that enable individuals to live actively and healthily into later life. - Explore comparatively different models, methods, approaches and good practices in societal responses to increased longevity which emphasise both social inclusion and sustainability. - Engage in effective knowledge exchange activities that will assist European and other countries to achieve the goal of increasing healthy life expectancy by 2 years by 2020.
Contact: contact e-mail
- CALL FOR TENDERS
- Service contract for a Study on Business and Financing Models related to ICT for Ageing Well - SMART 2011/0071
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(Deadline: 18/07/2011) The objective of the study is to address innovative solutions on sustainable business and financing models within information and communication technologies (ICT). The target solutions should be of high proven relevance for the ageing population in terms of improved quality of life of elderly people and their carers, increased efficiency of care and market potential. This excludes institutional healthcare settings.
- CALL FOR TENDERS
- Benchmarking deployment of e-health among general practitioners II — SMART 2011/0033
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(Deadline: 10/08/2011) The objective of this study is to measure the use of ICT by primary care physicians in the EU-27, Croatia, Iceland, Norway and Turkey; through the organisation of a survey to collect the necessary data and indicators to describe the main relevant dimensions of the phenomena: use of internet and other ICT based applications by primary care physicians, for their work, including communication with patients and the electronic exchange of information with primary and secondary care and other health actors, with nurses, carers, insurance and pharmacies. The results of that study will be used as a key baseline for the second eHealth action plan (eHAP) 2012-2020. They will be also an input for the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA). The role of general practitioners is very important for the diffusion of relevant innovation into health care systems. The study is also expected to identify the main differences between European countries so to allow an evidence based dialogue and an effective coordination between national policy efforts and the common European initiatives. The results will provide a substantial input to the 2013 Digital Agenda Scoreboard.
Contact: Stefano Abruzzini
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- POLICY AND LEGISLATION
- 'EU-US cooperation on eHealth workshop' report
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23 May 2011
Last December, Commission's Vice-President Neelie Kroes and the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on eHealth (Health IT) to promote a common approach on the interoperability of electronic health records and on education programmes for information technology and health professionals. The aim of the MoU is to create new markets and growth opportunities for industry in the eHealth sector in both the EU and the US. This workshop was organised to follow-up on the situation few months later.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: EU-US cooperation in eHealth workshop details - POLICY AND LEGISLATION
- DK: Danish eHealth portal allows users of health services to become better informed about their rights
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12 May 2011
Health services users require a broad overview of their rights as patients. In an effort to meet this need, and with the assistance of this target group, Danish eHealth portal 'Sundhed.dk' has compiled key information under a theme called 'Patient Rights'. In order to be able to decipher the law and to seek the aid of a patient advisor in doing so, information from several different areas is needed so as to get an overview of rights and options as a patient in the healthcare system. The Danish eHealth portal has collected information from several entities in the form of an overview of essential patients' rights with links to detailed and relevant data. This new section has been well received by the portal users.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: European activities in eHealth
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