Latest News
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- The Digital Agenda Summit
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3 October 2011 Brussels, Belgium
Chief Executive Officers of leading digital economy players, including major telecoms operators and ICT equipment manufacturers, will gather at this event hosted by ETNO and the Financial Times, with Commissioner Kroes as keynote speaker. Building on the CEO Roundtable hosted by Commissioner Kroes, the CEO Summit will provide further input from industry on how to achieve the Digital Agenda targets and stimulate the debate amongst industry players on how to boost private investment in high speed broadband networks and encourage new business models and services to emerge.
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- European Health Forum Gastein
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5 October 2011 - 8 October 2011 Bad Hofgastein, Austria
This year's theme is "Innovation and Wellbeing - Europe's Health in 2020 and beyond". Leading experts from business and industry, science and academia, patient organisations/NGOs as well as numerous health policy decision makers will present new ideas and use the event as a platform for the exchange of experiences and opinions at international level.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: ICT for Health activities - NEWS ARTICLE
- ecancerHub – A New Approach to Cancer Communication
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(4 August 2011) ecancerHub - a new, open-access, integrated approach to providing the whole cancer community with high quality and trustworthy information – has launched. Integrating the best of social media technology into one unique platform, ecancerHub enables patients, healthcare professionals and researchers to interact, connect and share. They have the opportunity to discuss, debate, generate new ideas, gather opinions and build knowledge not only within their own groups, but also cross-community.
See also: ICT for Health
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Games for Health: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications (G4H)
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(22 August 2011) G4H contains a variety of content including original peer-reviewed articles, news from the field, highlights of clinical trials relevant to health games, case studies with G4H relevance, advocacy group spotlights, editorials and perspectives, interviews with leaders and innovators, and provocative roundtable discussions. If you are interested in contributing, your are welcome to submit your manuscript at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/g4h.
Contact: bferguson@liebertpub.com
New in the Library
- FACTSHEET
- Novel strategies for safe and accurate catheter guidance and manipulation
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30 August 2011
Modern medicine is irreversibly shifting towards less invasive surgical procedures. Conventional open surgery approaches are systematically being replaced by interventions that reduce access trauma and thereby minimise pain and hospitalisation periods. In the perspective of patient safety, SCATh aims at minimizing these drawbacks specifically for a series of promising catheterization procedures with as common denominator treatment of cardiovascular disease, the main cause of death in the EU. The final product of SCATh will be a single software framework and robotic platform that integrates all the technological tools developed during the project.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: Other EU-funded projects in the domain of "Patient Safety" - POLICY AND LEGISLATION
- How to best demonstrate the impact of Research Infrastructures - workshop report
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29 August 2011
On 15 June 2011, representatives of 33 ESFRI-projects came together in the Palais des Academies of the Royal Academy of Belgium to discuss how to best demonstrate the impact of Research Infrastructures. The report and presentations of the workshop is now available.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: Research - eHealth - REPORTS AND STUDIES
- Transatlantic Cooperation Surrounding Health Related Information and Communication Technology
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26 August 2011
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation Surrounding Health Related Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) signed in Washington DC on Dec. 2010 between the EU and the US sent a strong signal to all stakeholders that a more global approach was needed to foster mutual understanding of the opportunities and challenges ahead, and reinforced the belief that advancing the effective use of Health ICT will benefit patients, health systems and the eHealth market. This book introduces the Policy Briefs which have resulted from the ARGOS project, the goal of which was to help address and meet global health policy challenges using ICT-enabled solutions, as well as to develop and promote common methods for responding to global eHealth challenges in the EU and the US. The ARGOS Policy Briefs address key health informatics topics and cover the following four areas: semantic interoperability; modeling and simulation of human physiology and diseases; a common approach towards measuring the adoption, usage and benefits of eHealth and certification of electronic health records in the US and Europe. Other articles of the book address another high priority challenge: strategies for the development of a skilled health IT workforce. With its varied practical recommendations and vision of the future, this book will be of interest to all those working in this highly specialized and fascinating field for the benefit of patients, health care providers and society.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: ICT for Health activities - REPORTS AND STUDIES
- Innovation for Stronger Regions: Opportunities for Regional Actors in FP7
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22 August 2011
This conference, organised on 14 July 2011, held three sessions: 1/ Regional authorities and policy-makers supporting an innovative framework for stronger European regions: towards smart specialisation, 2/ Innovation in the regions: the leading role of public and private research institutions, 3/ Supporting the business sector for a sustainable, smart and innovative regional growth. Five presentations are now online.
See also: EC DG INFSO - ICT in the Regions
- AUDIOVISUAL
- Meet Kompai, your robot friend
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22 August 2011
Kompai is a robot companion to humans who need one. Born in a workshop near Biarritz, France, Kompai is the fruit of the FP7 project MOBISERV to explore how machines can help the elderly and disabled. The result is a blend of watchdog, care assistant, and everyday computer. Vincent Dupourqué, the president of Robosoft, the company behind the venture, explained the idea: "A robot is certainly one of the best answers, the best technological answer to help people who are housebound." One of Robosoft's robotics engineer, Arnaud Lago, gave more details: "It's a mobile robotic platform which is able to move around an apartment automatically. It is equipped with a laser and distance sensors for navigation and security. There's a tablet PC with a tactile interface that allows it to interact with the person who'll be using it, two directional microphones in order to speak to it, and a camera to allow the person to speak to others." Kompai should be able to go where you tell him, help with the shopping list and even play games. Kompai's creators argue that the growing number of elderly people in Europe means there is an emerging market for robotic home help. Not just practical help either, but as Vincent said, also companionship: "Most people find they're really, really comfortable with the robot. We saw with the first tests with real patients that after a few minutes they forgot it was a machine and talked to him as if he was a person."
See also: Mobiserv project
- AUDIOVISUAL
- The P-Medicine project - data sharing and integration for personalised medicine (video presentation)
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19 July 2011
Dr Simona Rossi - Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, Lausanne presents P-medicine, a 4-year project co-funded under the EU's 7th Framework Programme aiming at developing new tools, IT infrastructure and VPH models to accelerate personalized medicine for the benefit of the patient.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: P-medicine EU funded project
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