EU eHealth in focus - Newsletter update - 25/10/2013

25th of October 2013

Top News eHealth at ICT 2013 ICT 2013 promises to be huge: Already more than 5.000 people registered for this conference in Vilnius. Are you interested in ICT for health and wellbeing? To help you find your way through the hundreds of sessions and exhibition stands you can find all eHealth activities taking place in the attached flyer. And if you can't attend, you can follow many sessions via live web streaming. See also: Retweet this Documents eHealth flyer ICT 2013 Read more... Calendar Palante midterm conference: Addressing eHealth innovation challenges - empowering patients (06/11/2013) The Palante midterm conference will take place on November 6th 2013 at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels. Purpose: to share lessons around the implementation of eHealth pilots, including the active involvement and roles of patients and health professionals. In terms of its focus it will be a working conference aimed at learning through exchange. See also: Retweet this Read more... Launch of website to identify your health app (14/11/2013) On 14 November the research and publishing company PatientView is going to launch a search tool to help people find a suitable health app. This occasion will be celebrated with an open day on health apps in Brussels. PatientView also interviewed 250 patient and consumer groups to identify their wants and needs for health apps. Result? Most of all people need apps to give them more control over their health. See also: Retweet this Read more... Health 2.0 Europe 2013 will show off technologies transforming healthcare (17/11/2013 — 19/10/2013) The 4th annual Health 2.0 Europe will gather over 500 entrepreneurs, investors, health professionals, patients, pharma, insurers to network and witness live demos of technologies transforming European healthcare. A new EU-funded project called "GET" will be launched, which is designed to support health entrepreneurs and SMEs at various phases of their development. See also: Retweet this Read more... Research Video: An exoskeleton to help paralysed people walk again Euronews published a video "Exoskeletons on the march" about the EU-funded project Mindwalker: Nineteen-year-old Marius Ciustea suffers from paraplegia after a recent skiing accident. He is now paralysed from the waist down. In recent times he has found some cause for optimism. It is in the form of a new exoskeleton, which helps him to get upright and hopefully walk. See also: Retweet this Innovation Futuristic organ-printing project warms the hearts of Gastein's dragons The infamous Dragon's Den workshop at the 16th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) was this year won by a team of Young Gasteiners proposing a project to print human hearts. Read more... An integrated approach to health and social care services: the Commonwell project Across Europe, providing health and social care services is becoming increasingly complex and costly. An ageing population, a multitude of public, private and informal actors, together with a myriad of eHealth systems and technologies create numerous hurdles to offering efficient and cost-effective care. A team of EU-funded researchers and practitioners are helping to get these services off the ground. Establishing innovative drug discovery expertise in the Baltics An EU-funded project designed to strengthen multidisciplinary research capacities, and to better manage intellectual property issues surrounding innovative drug discovery, has been launched. Contest: 5 tickets for LeWeb'13 Paris for 5 entrepreneurs from 5 EU countries This contest is open to EU entrepreneurs/start-ups. Documents Contest 5 tickets to LeWeb'13 Paris for 5 entrepreneurs from 5 EU countries 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 eHealth at ICT 2013 Research Video: An exoskeleton to help paralysed people walk again Innovation Futuristic organ-printing project warms the hearts of Gastein's dragons An integrated approach to health and social care services: the Commonwell project Establishing innovative drug discovery expertise in the Baltics Contest: 5 tickets for LeWeb'13 Paris for 5 entrepreneurs from 5 EU countries (06/11/2013)  Palante midterm conference: Addressing eHealth innovation challenges - empowering patients (14/11/2013)  Launch of website to identify your health app (17/11/2013 — 19/10/2013)  Health 2.0 Europe 2013 will show off technologies transforming healthcare Your Profile  |  eHealth on Europa  |