Top News  Horizon 2020, the EU's new program for investment in research and innovation, has put aside more than 7.4 billion euros for health, demographic change and wellbeing (including eHealth). How to apply for these funds? An info day, taking place on 22 November in Brussels, prepares you for that. Documents Read more... Next to the Director General of DG Connect Robert Madelin, these videos feature speakers from industry, goverment, science and healthcare, addressing topics like mHealth in psychiatric care, evaluation of health apps, the viewpoint of the World Health Organisation and European mHealth policy. Read more...  Even though epSOS has been extended until 30/6/2014, this large-scale project dealing with cross-border health services is slowly coming to an end. Time has come to report and sum up its many outputs. Meanwhile, also Portuguese citizens can use Patient Summaries when going abroad. Read more...  A funny, short video promoting the ICT 2013 event. Read more... | Calendar (31/10/2013 — 01/11/2013) The Himss Amsterdam 2013 conference (31/10-1/11/2013) will compare the Dutch eHealth system with that of the rest of the world. Read more... (05/11/2013 — 05/11/2013) Brain related illnesses are taking a big toll on society. Therefore the European Commission (DG Connect, Unit ICT for Health and Wellbeing) is organising, in cooperation with ePractice.eu, an event around eHealth and the brain. Brain related eHealth projects and other experts will share knowledge and there will be time for networking. For more info and registration, please visit this website. (20/11/2013) Documents Read more... (25/11/2013) This conference, taking place for the second time on 25 November in Brussels, is the annual event of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA). The partnership wants to improve ICT solutions for healthy and active ageing on a regional level.
Read more... | Policy A journal with many interesting aspects of EU-US cooperation on eHealth issues has been published. Read more... Everything you wanted to know and never dared to ask about DG CONNECT is now published on its website. All priority areas are presented and detailed information is available on what is done, why and how performance is measured. Read more... The European Commission, industry and academia have agreed to launch a Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Robotics, to help Europe-based companies take a larger share of the €15.5 billion annual global robotics market. Read more... | Research These studies, financed by the ICT for Health and Wellbeing unit of the European Commission (DG Connect), are at the basis of our work in the field of eHealth. Their topics range from the impact of eHealth solutions on society to analyses of each Member State and case studies.
Read more... Around 700,000 Europeans are diagnosed with Crohn's disease each year.
Specialists at University College hospital in central London, are exploring new ways to detect the disease and help patients cope with its symptoms. When the Cerqueglini family come 170 kilometres to Rome, they are not in the Italian capital just to see the sights. Their son Giordano has a disease called Bicuspid Aortic Valve which causes his ascending aorta to swell and expand.  Francesco Lollini is 19 years old and just finished high school. He collaborates with the research team from Bologna that runs the TOBI project (TOols for Brain computer Interaction). With the input of potential users such as Francesco, this project aims to develop practical technology for brain-computer interaction (BCI) that will improve the quality of life of disabled people and the effectiveness of rehabilitation.
The Human Brain Project - EU funded Flagship project explained in a video. Project home page: www.humanbrainproject.eu | Innovation Where health and wellbeing are concerned, the European Commission would like to see Europe connected. It therefore funds, supports and/or executes the activities, listed in the attached document. Documents The TClouds project has improved the security and resilience of cloud computing platforms in response to widespread concerns about data privacy and robustness of services in the cloud model. It has realized a trustworthy cloud-computing platform, the TClouds platform, which integrates multiple advanced security technologies in a standard cloud distribution and in commercial cloud systems. Have a look at the video of their eHealth solutions. Documents 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
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