Top News One month after entering into operational mode for real-world exchanges of patient summaries, epSOS was back at the European Connectathon to introduce new member nations to the expanding network. check the epSOS website for complete information.  The PatientVille exhibition tells the story of a chronically ill patient that suffers from a heart disease, and demonstrates how eHealth supports coherence in the patient's course of treatment. The journey included a demonstration of care and how data is shared between the pre-hospital sector (ambulance), hospital, municipality, general practitioner, pharmacy, and the patient's own home. PatientVille also included a demonstration of cross-border e-prescription (epSOS) at a Danish pharmacy. | Calendar (03/07/2012 — 04/07/2012) The final Marie Curie FP6 Conference is intended as a celebration of the achievements of the more than 14.200 Marie Curie fellows funded under FP6. It will provide a unique opportunity to show-case results and career successes. The event has been conceived in a modern and innovative way: the TED-style format with the theme focusing on mobility, research and innovation. Through this event, the European Commission intends to show the main results achieved, and of course the main lessons learnt. More information will be soon made available on the website! (09/07/2012 — 10/07/2012) The Factories of the Future (FoF) initiative, a part of the European Commission's Economic Recovery Plan, aims at helping European manufacturing enterprises to adapt to global competitive pressures by improving the technological base of manufacturing across a broad range of sectors. This workshop will inform about the Public Private Partnership-FoF-ICT Work Programme 2013 and will provide an opportunity to discuss the outcome of recent roadmapping activities in the domain ICT for Manufacturing. It is organised back to back to the PPP FoF, Energy Efficient Buildings and Green Car InfoDays. | Policy Telemedicine applications could potentially solve many of the challenges faced by the healthcare sectors in Europe. However, a framework for assessment of these technologies is need by decision makers to assist them in choosing the most efficient and cost-effective technologies. Therefore in 2009 the European Commission initiated the development of a framework for assessing telemedicine applications, based on the users' need for information for decision making. This article presents the Model for ASsessment of Telemedicine applications (MAST) developed in this study. (International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 28 , pp 44-51 doi:10.1017/S0266462311000638) | Research  The in-hospital care application domain of the REACTION platform features a range of services aiming at safe glycaemic control of patients with diabetes using an individual target level, depending on the history and actual state of the patient. In the general ward, a REACTION application monitors a range of parameters including glucose level, nutritional intake as well as measures of administered drugs (e.g. oral anti-diabetic drugs or insulin) among other parameters (e.g. insulin sensitivity). The data is contextualised in the Data Management component and mathematical algorithms will later be used to calculate the required insulin doses. Results are delivered to clinicians for validation and verification. Their online appraisal can be fed back to the physicians and nurses at the point of care in the patients' ward. For the implementation of the new REACTION application, interfaces to hospital systems will be developed and hospital protocols across wards for administration and glucose management will be required. The Factories of the Future (FoF) initiative, a part of the European Commission's Economic Recovery Plan, aims at helping European manufacturing enterprises to adapt to global competitive pressures by improving the technological base of manufacturing across a broad range of sectors. This workshop will inform about the Public Private Partnership-FoF-ICT Work Programme 2013 and will provide an opportunity to discuss the outcome of recent roadmapping activities in the domain ICT for Manufacturing. It is organised back to back to the PPP FoF, Energy Efficient Buildings and Green Car InfoDays. | Innovation  The traditional delivery models of European healthcare and welfare must be fundamentally changed to better fit to the long-term needs of persons with chronic conditions. RENEWING HEALTH is an European project aiming at implementing large-scale real-life test beds for the validation and evaluation of innovative telemedicine services by means of a patient-centred approach and a common rigorous assessment methodology. It involves 9 of the most advanced regions in the implementation of health-related ICT services, inside a local system where service solutions are already operational for the tele-monitoring and the treatment of chronic patients suffering from diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary or cardiovascular diseases. | 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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