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- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- ICT-PSP Information Day 2012: Registration is now open!
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26 January 2012 Charlemagne Building - Rue de la Loi 170 - B-1040 Brussels
An Information Day on the 6th Call for Proposals will be held on Friday 3 February 2012 in Brussels. A session will be dedicated to the presentation of the "ICT for Smart Cities" theme and objectives followed by a Q&A slot. Register NOW! Links to the registration page and the draft agenda are available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm .
See also: Draft Agenda
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- VPH2012: Integrative approaches to computational biomedicine
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18 September 2012 - 20 September 2012 London, UK
Special attention will be given to the 'Digital Patient' as well as 'health forecasts'. VPH2012 aims at reaching outside of the VPH community to other equally important communities: systems biology and genomics. In this respect, our vision is to have a conference that truly encompasses all possible scales to model physio/pathology with a clear ICT focus.
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Information Day on the 6th Call for Proposals of the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme
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3 February 2012 Brussels, Belgium
The draft ICT PSP Work Programme 2012 has been approved by the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) ICT Committee. The 6th Call for Proposals will be open from 1 February until 15 May 2012 (pending the formal approval of the Work Programme 2012 by the Commission). Additional thematic workshops will be organised for themes and objectives of the 6th Call for Proposals, as well as national information days.
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing at the International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare 2012
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6 March 2012 - 7 March 2012 The King's Fund, London, UK
The programme of the Congress includes two sessions organised by the European Commission, in support of the activities of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.
Contact: Don't forget to register to the pre-congress worshop by email
See also: European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing - NEWS ARTICLE
- Monitoring the quality of body movements in stroke subjects during daily life will improve continued rehabilitation after release from the hospital
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(25 January 2012) The project aims to develop and test sensory modalities in clothing to assess the quality of body movements in stroke subjects during daily life in order to assist their continued rehabilitation. Currently, the period after a stroke patient returns home from the rehabilitation hospital is a black-box to the physician, having no feedback from the patient. This results in unnecessary high levels of disability and complications. In future, when using the INTERACTION system, physician will be able to continuously evaluate the patient's performance in handling objects in the environment and to control body balance during daily-life. The European Commission has granted 2.6 million euros over the next three years to the INTERACTION consortium, consisting of 6 partners to work on this challenge.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- What if lowering your stress level was as easy and as much fun as playing a video game?
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(24 January 2012) Imagine an automated smart system that lowers your stress level, changes the program the second you change your behaviour, sends you reminders on your mobile phone, etc. All this technology made simple to allow you to manage and treat your stress-related disorders! This is the vision of the INTERSTRESS EU funded project.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: Other EU funded projects in ICT for Health - NEWS ARTICLE
- FR: Valorisation de l'innovation hospitalière dans le soin et la recherche au service des malades
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(19 January 2012) Pour une création d'entreprises innovantes issues de l'AP-HP : signature d'une convention triennale de coopération.
Contact: eHealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: Innovation in eHealth at the EC - NEWS ARTICLE
- last Reminder: eHealth Stakeholder Group - call for expression of interest ddl: 30.1.2012
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(27 January 2012) The European Commission is inviting European eHealth user and industry representatives to participate in a eHealth stakeholder group, to be set up in early 2012. The group will contribute to the development of legislation or policy related to eHealth, by providing for example reports, opinions and relevant data. Deadline to send your expression of interest is 30/01/2012.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: European Commission - eHealth activities
New in the Library
- AUDIOVISUAL
- Healthier ageing is just a click away
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27 January 2012
2012 is the European Year for Active Aging. With an ever older population, Europe is looking for ways to improve the quality of living of their elderly people, a generation far more active and technologically trained than previous ones. This Futuris will take a look at how ICT devices can help patients with three different diseases to increase their quality of living -while staying at their homes. In Cadiz, Spain, we´ll be visiting an elderly house and a home where patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are currently testing a brand new device that will help them to know if an unexpected respiratory crisis is about to happen. This will help them call for aid in a faster way, or better prepare their transportation to nearby hospitals. We´ll be meeting COPD patients, personal caretakers, doctos and the computer scientists that have developed the prototype.
- REPORTS AND STUDIES
- Strategic Report for Translational Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in the European Union
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27 January 2012
This white paper was prepared in order to assess the opportunities and obstacles that confront us in facilitating a translational role for bioinformatics and systems biology in drug discovery and clinical medicine. The report represents the consensus outcome of Think Tank discussions among 23 invited world-leading experts in Barcelona, Spain, on October 2011. There is potential in sub-cellular (or molecular) systems biology approaches to biomedicine, as compared to conventional methods of drug design. Despite the early stage of these approaches, and lots still to be done, they may be able to assist in more personalised approaches to drug treatment. For translational systems biology to make a major impact, the whole system of data access needs to be transformed into one based on more openness and sharing of information between hospitals, academia and industry. Various societal structures currently impede this development. Regulatory and funding agencies must be involved to overcome these obstacles.
Contact: info@inbiomedvision.eu
See also: INBIOMEDVision website - REPORTS AND STUDIES
- Strategic Report on Genotype-Phenotype Resources in the European Union
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27 January 2012
This white paper was prepared to assess the opportunities and obstacles that confront us as Europe plans to make full use of the integration of genome-based data resources with resources detailing disease-based and other human phenotypes. The report represents the consensus outcome of Think Tank discussions among 17 invited experts in Brussels on October 2011. The report addresses prospects for the development and application of genotype-phenotype resources, considering them to be very promising. Establishing clear relationships (correlations) between increasing amounts of genotypic information available from clinical studies (e.g. as provided by genome wide association studies (GWAS)), and similarly of phenotype information at the population level, is still largely impossible today. This approach advocated also assists in "stratification" – instead of rejecting so many drugs during clinical trials, it could be that many deemed to be failures today will work well for sets of patients on genotypic/ phenotypic grounds.
Contact: info@inbiomedvision.eu
See also: INBIOMEDvision website
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