Top News To get the US and EU working together in the field of eHealth there has been a Memorandum of Understanding and a Roadmap, and now it's time for you to join in with a Call for Participation. The official launch of this "eHealth Cooperation Initiative" will be held as a web meeting and teleconference on June 20th. Read more... | Calendar  (30/06/2013 — 02/07/2013) From 30 June until 2 July 2013, the 18th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference will take place. Topics include: electronic health coaching, using virtual reality in treatments (for example after hand surgery), the new EU research program Horizon 2020, virtual body swapping and advanced technologies in the assessment and evaluation of psychological stress. Read more... | Policy  Commissioner De Gucht speaks about eHealth and trade on occasion of the 2nd EU-US eHealth Business Marketplace, 15 May 2013, in Dublin.  Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny believes that the 'eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020' is "a coherent roadmap allowing us to utilise and develop eHealth to address some of the most pressing health systems challenges in the first half of the 21st century. This should become the vision for all of us." Read more... During the eHealth Week in Dublin last May, the Greek Delegation announced its intention to organize the next High-level eHealth Conference and associated events under the Greek Presidency. The Greek Presidency aims to encourage Member States to step up their efforts in developing national commitments, policies and initiatives supporting the implementation at large scale of the six Action Plans of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. Industry will have an important role in this event, to acknowledge its crucial role as an enabler of innovation.  Europeans have basic digital networks and services, but are missing out on the main current and future benefits of the digital revolution, because of problems in Europe's telecoms and wider digital markets, according to the Commission's annual Digital Agenda Scoreboard published today. Read more... | Research To help fight childhood obesity and other child diseases, the European Commission has awarded 12 million euros to a medical research project that will use mathematical models to improve the treatment of children. Read more... Surgeons-to-be no longer have to practice on cadavers but can use "organ phantoms" instead. They may also practice with "virtual surgical simulators" and operating room monitoring systems. Those and other methods for improving patient safety in robotic surgery are the results of the large scale EU funded SAFROS project. Read more... | Innovation Vodafone Foundation has announced the launch of the first Mobile for Good Europe Awards to search for iOS and Android apps designed to improve people's lives and deliver substantial public benefit. Creators of the winning apps, in categories including accessibility, mobilising public services, health and education, will receive a shared prize fund of €200,000 to be used for the development of their innovations. Mobilising Public Services will focus on how local and national governments can leverage mobile technology to improve the delivery of public services. The closing date for entries is 15 October and an awards ceremony will be held in Brussels on 5 December 2013. The awards build on the success of the Vodafone Foundation's Smart Accessibility Awards, held in 2011 and 2012 with the cooperation with AGE Platform Europe and the European Disability Forum, which was a competition to find Android apps which improve the lives of older people or people with disabilities. In each of the four categories, the winner will receive €30,000, second place wins €15,000 and third place receives €5,000. There will be local workshops organised for the developers in Berlin, Amsterdam and Madrid. The Mobile for Good Europe Awards is again a partnership with AGE Platform Europe and the European Disability Forum, representing the users' perspective. | Subscription Information This is the newsletter of the eHealth web site on Europa. It is hosted by the Communications Networks, Content & Technologies Newsroom - a 'one stop shop' on European Communications Networks, Content & Technologies 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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