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- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- The role of biotechnology in Europe's responsible innovation
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8 December 2010 - 9 December 2010 Brussels, Belgium
Brussels day is an event where key representatives from the national associations' membership come to Brussels to meet with members of the European Parliament and Permanent Representatives to discuss major issues for biotech in the Member States.
Contact: Registration
See also: EC eHealth Policy & Research - EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- ETNO Innovation Day on e-health
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25 January 2011 Brussels, Belgium
The aim of the event is to discuss how e-health applications can contribute to addressing key challenges for our society such as the growth of chronic diseases and the ageing population and highlight the main obstacles to the take up of e-health applications in Europe. In the spirit of the Digital Agenda, this event aims to contribute to identifying actions needed at EU or national level to enable a wider usage of e-health applications by medical community and users. To that end, a debate will be organised with representatives from the medical community, national health systems, patients and operators.
Contact: dieu@etno.be
See also: EC eHealth - EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- First Pan-European VERITAS Workshop and User Forum
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29 November 2010 - 30 November 2010 Prague, Czech Republic
Ensuring that all products developed in the car, home, work, healthcare and entertainment industry are accessible and designed for all, lies at the core of the VERITAS project (FP7). Through the development of virtual user models that can be inserted in simulation environments, any design elements that cause barriers for the beneficiaries (people with disabilities and older people) can be detected at the very beginning, thus allowing the designers to improve their initial design and make it inclusive. The User Forum aims to bring together on the one hand the developers and designers, and on the other hand the beneficiaries of the developed products and services.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- European eHealth in Transition: Towards a Joint Political Leadership for Interoperable eHealth Services
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(2 November 2010) The CALLIOPE main outcomes like the "eHealth interoperability Roadmap for Sustainable Health" will be set into per-spective by presentations on the "Proposal for a Directive on Patient Rights in Cross border health care", the "EC strategy for eHealth for the Digital Agenda and the eHealth Governance Initiative. Do not miss the meeting "Crossing boundaries in eHealth: the CALLIOPE think-tank and collaborative platform" on 16 November 2010, Brussels, hosted by Milan Cabrnoch, MEP. More information on the newsletter.
See also: ICT for sustainable and interoperable health services
- PRESS RELEASE
- Commission launches public consultation on future funding to boost EU competitiveness and innovation
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(11 November 2010) The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the successor to the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-2013 (CIP). The CIP is the main EU budgetary instrument targeting competitiveness outside the research and skills areas. Its main priorities are SMEs, access to finance, innovation (including eco-innovation), take-up and use of information and communication technologies (ICT), energy efficiency and renewables. Through the consultation, the public is invited to have its say on what the priorities of future competitiveness and innovation EU funding should be. The consultation will remain open until 4 February 2011.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- The AAL Open Association's manifesto
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(8 November 2010) An Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Open Association has been formed. Its mission is to provide a shared open framework for developers, technology and service providers, research institutions, and end user representatives to discuss, design, develop, evaluate, and standardize a common service platform in the field of Ambient Assisted Living. Everyone is invited to join the association and to participate in its activities.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- HIMSS Europe Award for eHealth Leadership 2011
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(8 November 2010) The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Europe has launched the nomination for the HIMSS Europe Award for eHealth Leadership, which recognises an individual who has demonstrated significant leadership in promoting the use of information technology in healthcare in Europe. The Award will be presented at the World of Health IT conference during the eHealth week (Budapest, Hungary, 10–13 May 2011). Deadline for submission of nominations is Monday 20 December 2010.
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- FACTSHEET
- EHR, the core component of eHealth
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8 November 2010
The increase of life expectancy in western societies has been accompanied by a similar increase of chronic diseases. In contrast to the not so distant past, people now live longer, coping with numerous afflictions (mostly related to old age). Today, healthcare needs to address the fact that chronic disease is becoming more prevalent and needs attention from widely distributed experts and organisations, each specializing in a narrow field and addressing only a small part of the health issues patients are facing. The result of this combination of geographically dispersion and longer duration of treatment is that patients need to follow complicated routes from hospitals to specialists and back, elevating the importance of information sharing and availability. More articles are available on http://www.epractice.eu/community/ehealthprocurers/guide_page/page1/
See also: ICT for Health - Research
- REPORTS AND STUDIES
- Interoperability Challenges in the Health Management of Patients with Implantable Defibrillators
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8 November 2010
Patient empowerment frameworks engage citizens in their healthcare. Heart patients undergo implantation of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs) that support remote monitoring hoping to live a longer healthier life. Electronic Health Records (EHR), remote device monitoring, and lifestyle data can supply patient context to computerized guidelines so that health events are timely assessed and effectively treated, before they become life-threatening. In this way, lives may be saved, health care resources be optimized, and hospital visits be reduced saving time, hassle, and money. iCARDEA aims to provide health professionals with such an adaptive care planner offering decision support through semi-automated clinical guidelines integrating data from CIEDs, EHRs and Personal Health Records (PHRs). The enabling standards and interoperability initiatives are presented underlining barriers that need to be overcome, before such eHealth innovations become widely adopted.
See also: ICT for Health - Research - Personal Health Systems
- FACTSHEET
- Telemedicine applications in rehabilitation
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8 November 2010
Tele-rehabilitation refers to the delivery of rehabilitation services to distant locations, through the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). It encompasses practices from remote monitoring of progress to patient family support to training of professionals, etc.
See also: ICT for Health - Research
- FACTSHEET
- The role of Network Operators in mHealth
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8 November 2010
mHealth is a term that refers to the provision of medical services through the use of portable devices with the capability to create, store, retrieve, and transmit data via mobile communications. In technical terms, small devices are used to monitor patient-related data and actively communicate with a central information system; in most cases, communication takes place either over a mobile telephony or fixed line network (e.g. ADSL) coupled with WiFi. Standing at the crossroads of eHealth, Mobile Devices and Wide Area Networks (WANs), mHealth has found itself in the middle of an explosive growth that these sectors have experienced in the last few years and which is continuing strong, even in the midst of the global recession.
See also: ICT for Health - Research - Personal Health Systems
- FACTSHEET
- Unique aspects of eHealth procurement
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8 November 2010
One of the most striking similarities among diverse business sectors is their unwavering belief in their uniqueness. This attitude is particularly visible to professionals that happen to work in cross-section projects and thus have the opportunity to come into contact with representatives from different areas. Procurement is a good example of such a cross-section area, with different businesses claiming a necessity for completely different processes for their sector. However, experience shows that in most cases such differences are only perceived rather than real; in fact, from the perspective of procurement, businesses have more in common than not.
See also: ICT for Health - Policy
- AUDIOVISUAL
- GSM in use within Renewing Health, an EU project in northern Sweden
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30 October 2010
400 Norrbotten to visit the doctor by phone. Now the EU is investing heavily in improving healthcare in rural areas.
Contact: marcodange@gmail.com
See also: ICT for Health - ICT PSP CIP projects - REPORTS AND STUDIES
- iCARDEA – an Approach to Reducing Human Workload in Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Follow-Ups
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29 September 2010
The iCARDEA project aims at developing an intelli-gent platform to semi-automate the follow-up of CIED patients using adaptable computer interpretable clinical guideline models. For this purpose, data from hospitals' electronic health records (EHR), from patient maintained personal health records (PHR) and current generation of CIED devices provided by the remote monitoring services offered by all major vendors are collected and correlated. This article provides an overview of the project that has started in February 2010.
See also: ICT for Health - Research - Personal Health Systems
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