Top News With your European Health Insurance Card you can access state-provided healthcare if you fall ill or have an accident during your stay abroad. Show your card to a doctor or at the hospital and you will receive the necessary treatment under the same conditions as people insured in that country. As well, if you need a refill of your medication while abroad check the ePrescription services offered by epSOS. Read "Semantic interoperability needs political commitment" for recent information http://bit.ly/KcyzHA. In what areas and how could EU action on social media benefit employability, jobs and growth across Europe? These questions will be addressed during the Digital Agenda Assembly on 21 and 22 June in Brussels, more specifically in the workshop Social Media Social Networking for Economic Recovery, Jobs and Growth. We will explore the use and great potential of social media for growth and jobs in Europe from three perspectives: 1- businesses; 2- social media platform providers; 3- the public sector. Join the discussion today! The 2012 EU SME eHealth Competition first prize has been awarded to Daintel, for its solution CIS that manages hospital Intensive Care units. CIS helps to reduce treatment costs up to 30%, while increasing patient safety and enables professionals to analyse the related clinical data. Read more... Denmark, England and Scotland have been pioneers in the use of electronic communication in and across the health and social care sectors. The three pioneers have been able to integrate telehealth into standard patient treatments, according to a new study from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (IPTS) Read more... "yesterday I was reminded of just how much innovation and impact those smaller companies can make, when I awarded the best ideas for active and healthy ageing". Blog post by N. Kroes With the core groups establishing themselves, the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Active and Healthy Ageing is entering a new phase. The action plans for the numerous EIP actions will be due in October. The ultimate goal is to accelerate on the path towards large scale deployment. In times of fiscal austerity, healthcare IT can help to keep costs in check while at the same time maintain or indeed increase quality of care. But this will only come true if eHealth projects are closely aligned to strategic health policy goals. In the context of "final reports", SPOCS is planning to consult Member States that are not participating in the SPOCS project, as well as industry stakeholders and standardization bodies, on the results of the project; in particular, to get views on whether others can see a use for them in future. Participants will be able to: - Get a preview of the final reports. - Discuss what the SPOCS solutions could deliver for them. - Collect ideas regarding sustainability and standardization. - Build strong relationships with those Member States/partners that will be part of the new pilot A project (as called for in the CIP ICT PSP WP 2012). | 
