Top News The objective of the workshop is to present and discuss current and future perspectives of EU and US cooperation on eHealth matters. The workshop will provide an opportunity to review on-going collaborations, including those developed in the context of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation surrounding health information and communication technologies. Most notable amongst this work is the jointly developed EC-HHS roadmap for the development of internationally recognised interoperability standards and interoperability implementation specifications for electronic health information systems.  PatientVille is a joint exhibition resulting of a public-private partnership between Danish Regions/RSI, MedCom, NSI, sundhed.dk, KL (Local Government Denmark), Falck, DI ITEK, IT-Branchen, and Medicoindustrien. The goal of PatientVille is to demonstrate Danish eHealth, to point out future growth opportunities, to demonstrate the Danish medico-, service, and health-IT industry, and to inspire European partners. PatientVille will demonstrate how eHealth supports coherence in a Danish patient's course of treatment. An area of 108m2 will be the playground for a journey that includes a visit to the citizens' home, to the pre-hospital sector (ambulance), the acute care department (hospital), the general practitioner, the municipality (home nurse), and to the pharmacy. The journey also includes a demonstration of the epSOS cross-border e-prescription service at a Danish pharmacy. The different actors that are involved in the patients' health care journey will show, how data relevant to the treatment of the patient are exchanged and shared in Denmark. Want a tour of PatientVille? Just show up at booth no. 1049. Guided tours are planned to take place Tuesday, May 8th from 14.30 to 15.00 and on Wednesday, May 9th from 12.30 to 13.00. A new website, the "Marketplace for Innovative ideas" has been launched as part of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. The Marketplace is an interactive website designed to help those that are interested and involved in the Partnership to work together and develop their innovative ideas. The Marketplace will also include an online workspace for the Action Groups of the Innovation Partnership once they are formed this summer, and will provide more information about the Reference sites once they are selected in 2013.  A prototype of the 'Efficient Patient Recruitment for Innovative Clinical Trials of Existing Drugs to other Indications' platform (PONTE platform) will be released this month (April 2012). The wider research community will thus have the opportunity to test run and review the tools that the platform will offer. PONTE is a European project intended to establish a platform to help new uses for existing drugs. It will offer vital assistance throughout each stage of the process - from the moment an idea is generated through to the selection of suitable volunteers for the trial. The healthcare staff of the municipality of Örebro (southern Sweden) rates highly the National Patient Summary (Nationell patientöversikt - NPÖ, in Swedish) service. Nine out of ten NPÖ users are 'satisfied' or 'very satisfied' with it, and more than 60 % of them believe that it has been highly or very highly beneficial for their work, according to a recent survey. The National Patient Summary enables qualified healthcare staff to access, with the patient's consent, online medical records filed by other caregivers and thereby obtain a comprehensive snapshot of the patient's health. This provides a better basis for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring while facilitating healthcare coordination between the healthcare professionals involved. The survey was conducted at the end of 2011 by a market research company for Inera AB - a software company jointly owned by the Swedish counties - which develops IT services on behalf of the Centre for eHealth in Sweden (CeHis) such as the NPÖ project. | Calendar The IHE European Connectathon will expand this year to include European nations connecting health records in the large-scale European Patient Smart Open Service (epSOS) project and will host satellite meetings for key e-health organisations. New nations starting to participate in epSOS this year will test the exchange of vital patient data across borders from Bern, connecting remotely with experienced partner nations that validated systems last year at the Projectathon. This year, the annual forum of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme will focus on the following main themes: EU and national policies; AAL projects: outcomes and future; from research to business: delivering innovations; cutting edge ideas. Around 1200 participants from across Europe are expected, including users and care organisations. Visiting tours will take participants to discover the Smartest Region of the World 2011 (Eindhoven region) and its way of approaching the demographic change. The core values for each participant at the AAL Forum 2012 will be enclosed in FIVE i's : Information, Inspiration, Imagination, Interaction and Innovation. The special venue for this year's forum is the UFO-shaped Evoluon in Eindhoven. | Policy The IHE European Connectathon will expand this year to include European nations connecting health records in the large-scale European Patient Smart Open Service (epSOS) project and will host satellite meetings for key e-health organisations. New nations starting to participate in epSOS this year will test the exchange of vital patient data across borders from Bern, connecting remotely with experienced partner nations that validated systems last year at the Projectathon.  An ageing disorders - focused initiative set up a regional biobank to boost research and related developments. Far-reaching collaborations brought together academia and industry and built on the strength of IT-based communications. The EU-funded project 'The Danubian Biobank initiative - towards information-based medicine' (Danubiobank) worked to set up a 'Danubian Biobank foundation for public utility in molecular medicine of aging disorders'. SALAR, the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting - SKL, in Swedish) has recently launched the 'Centre for eSociety' - CeSam (Center för eSamhället, in Swedish) to accelerate the development of digital welfare services across Sweden's municipalities, counties and regions. CeSam's work is run in close cooperation with SALAR's divisions in the following activity areas: eHealth, school, business and labour, town planning, traffic, environment, culture, leisure and hospitality, democracy and participation, support, and structural conditions. | Research The University Hospital Virgen Macarena of Seville and the Superior Engineering School of Seville University are jointly carrying out a new research project for the implementation of a complete telecare system for kidney patients. The research project is named 'e-Nefro - Arquitectura modular adaptable para la teleasistencia integral de paciente renales' (Modular customisable architecture for complete kidney patient telecare', in English). The research partners will study the implementation of a telemedicine system for the monitoring of pre-dialysis patients or patients under substitutive treatment (peritoneal dialysis), with the aim of improving their quality of life and healthcare. The project is funded by the Health Institute Carlos III, a public research institute attached to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and it will run for three years. A pioneering telemedicine project for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has recently been launched in a hospital in central France to assess the impact of readmissions due to COPD exacerbations. "Telemedicine programmes already exist in pulmonology, but mainly for patients with sleep apnea," said project leader Dr André Marcuccilli. To his knowledge, the 'Hospitadom' project, which is being carried out at the Moulins-Yzeure Hospital, is the first COPD feasibility study of its kind in France; it uses a Danish pilot as a model. According to the hospital media kit, the pilot project aims to 'establish a telemonitoring system to support and improve the care of chronic respiratory patients.' The study plans to recruit 100 COPD patients who were hospitalised following exacerbations, and then to randomly distribute them between home telemedicine monitoring and conventional care for 15 days. This year, the annual forum of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme will focus on the following main themes: EU and national policies; AAL projects: outcomes and future; from research to business: delivering innovations; cutting edge ideas. Around 1200 participants from across Europe are expected, including users and care organisations. Visiting tours will take participants to discover the Smartest Region of the World 2011 (Eindhoven region) and its way of approaching the demographic change. The core values for each participant at the AAL Forum 2012 will be enclosed in FIVE i's : Information, Inspiration, Imagination, Interaction and Innovation. The special venue for this year's forum is the UFO-shaped Evoluon in Eindhoven. | Innovation An electronic incident reporting and complaints handling system has dramatically reduced the number of complaints relating to medical errors in AZ Sint-Lucas hospital in Bruges. The patient safety software was implemented in early November 2010. In 2011, the number of incidents reported at the hospital - the first in mainland Europe to implement this kind of system - tripled from 100 to 300. It doubled again in the following eight months, with further improvements expected, as staff is trained on the new system and user confidence grows. The hospital has also gained an increased ability to analyse trends and numerical proof of the existence of incidents - meaning that staff now have the tool to help managers improve patient safety. | Subscription Information This is the newsletter of the eHealth web site on Europa. It is hosted by the Information Society Newsroom - a 'one stop shop' on European Information Society news spanning all Directorates-General of the European Commission. You may unsubscribe or broaden your subscription from this newsletter by going to Your Profile. | | In this issue - Top News
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