EU eHealth in focus - Newsletter update - 22/08/2013

22nd of August 2013

Top News A cost-effective solution to monitor and diagnose sleeping disorders The development of cost-effective 'smartwatch' software could have dramatic implications for patients with sleeping disorders. By enabling medical staff to more accurately monitor sleeping patterns - and therefore diagnose tailored therapies - the lives of thousands of sufferers could be improved. See also: Retweet this Read more... Calendar Roundtable event on Horizon 2020 and healthcare (10/09/2013 — 10/09/2013) The roundtable event 'Horizon 2020 and the future of European research: How to develop the right prevention and treatment to the right patient at the right time' is taking place in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday 10 September 2013.   See also: Retweet this The use of new technologies in long-term care (26/09/2013 — 28/09/2013) The European Association for Directors and Providers of Long-Term Care Services for the Elderly (E.D.E.) is organising a congress to address the use of new technologies in long-term care. Read more... INTEGRATE symposium at European Cancer Conference (27/09/2013) The EU funded INTEGRATE project will be presented at a symposium during the European Cancer Congress in Amsterdam on Friday 27 September, 2013. Main topic will be the relevance of data sharing in oncology. See also: Retweet this Read more... European Telemedicine Conference in Edinburgh (29/10/2013 — 30/10/2013) According to experts, telemedicine is one of the fastest growing areas of innovation in healthcare. It improves patient care, increases access and lowers costs. It could solve many of the systemic problems in our existing healthcare system. To stay on top of the possibilities and abreast of the latest innovations in telemedicine, attend the first European Telemedicine Conference in Edinburgh. See also: Retweet this Read more... Interoperability project Antilope holds first public workshop (28/11/2013 — 29/11/2013) The Antilope project drives eHealth interoperability in Europe and beyond. It unites key national and international organisations to select and define eHealth standards and specifications. The project experts will come together during a first workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 28-29 November 2013. This event is open to everyone who is interested. See also: Retweet this Read more... Policy DAA 2013 Videos and pictures Watch video highlights from the DAA 2013! Individual video recordings of the workshops and plenary session are also available via our website as well as photographs from the event. See also: Videos Research Researchers take biomedical modelling a step further The MSV (Multiscale Spatiotemporal Visualisation) project has defined an interactive visualisation paradigm for biomedical multiscale data and validated it on the large collections of exemplary problems. The researchers also developed a concrete implementation as an open-source extension to the Visualisation Toolkit (VTK), ready to be incorporated by virtually any biomedical modelling software project. Documents MSV factsheet Read more... Call for brain researchers The large-scale EU funded Human Brain Project is looking for beneficiaries who can carry out specific research tasks and will join the consortium in 2014. Contact: hbp.call@hbpconsortium.org See also: Retweet this Read more... The backbone for European science gets stronger: 100Gbps internet for individual researchers GÉANT, the superfast pan-European research network that helped discover the Higgs Boson, announced today that it could reach speeds up to 2Tbps (terabits per second) thanks to a major network upgrade. From today, capacity of up to 500Gbps is available across the core network. This means individual users across 32,000 universities, higher education institutes, research institutes, schools, libraries, museums, national archives and hospitals can transfer data at speeds of up to 100Gbps. ICT 2013 in Vilnius, 6-8 November More than 4000 researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industry representatives, young people and politicians are expected in Vilnius. The event will focus on Horizon 2020 - the EU's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for 2014-2020. Read more... Innovation Infographic: What is eHealth? Health informatics or eHealth - it's a field where jobs are expected to grow more than 20 percent between 2010 and 2020. An American infographic from the University of Illinois shows which jobs are possible in this sector and how eHealth saves time, reduces costs and improves care. See also: Retweet this Read more... Personalized medicine: Watch videos of experts online The EU funded p-medicine project is online. The new website (p-medicine.eu) refers to interviews with the project experts about their work:  developing new tools, IT infrastructure and VPH models to accelerate personalized medicine for the benefit of the patient. See also: Retweet this Read more... 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 A cost-effective solution to monitor and diagnose sleeping disorders Policy DAA 2013 Videos and pictures Research Researchers take biomedical modelling a step further Call for brain researchers The backbone for European science gets stronger: 100Gbps internet for individual researchers ICT 2013 in Vilnius, 6-8 November Innovation Infographic: What is eHealth? Personalized medicine: Watch videos of experts online (10/09/2013 — 10/09/2013)  Roundtable event on Horizon 2020 and healthcare (26/09/2013 — 28/09/2013)  The use of new technologies in long-term care (27/09/2013)  INTEGRATE symposium at European Cancer Conference (29/10/2013 — 30/10/2013)  European Telemedicine Conference in Edinburgh (28/11/2013 — 29/11/2013)  Interoperability project Antilope holds first public workshop Your Profile  |  eHealth on Europa  |