Top News  From 6 to 8 November, 'ICT2013: Create, Connect, Grow' took place in Vilnius. As one of the biggest events during the Lithuanian Presidency it brought together more than 5.000 people. Next to launching the Horizon 2020 work program, eHealth was discussed. One of our eHealth projects was awarded by the public for having the best exhibition stand. Documents Read more... On 20 November there will be a workshop on so called Key Enabling Technologies for healthcare. What is the European Commission doing to accelerate the development and take-up of these advanced ICT technologies to address healthcare challenges? What role can Horizon 2020 play? Documents Read more... By analysing information on social media such as Twitter, big data could for example predict the outbreak of an epidemic. Documents Read more... | Calendar (14/11/2013) In the morning of 14 November 2013 (8:30-13:10 h) the workshop 'Regulating Medical Software - What to expect in the coming year' will take place. It will help you find your way in EU and international regulations for medical software. (19/11/2013 — 20/11/2013) This conference, organised by the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council
of the EU, will take place in Vilnius on 19-20 November 2013. Topic: Improving the productivity of health systems, scope for reform. Improvements of efficiency are needed to get more and better health care in times of dwindling budgets. | Policy  Via an easy-to-read infographic, published on the website of the National IT Institute for Healthcare in the Netherlands, you can check whether your app or medical device requires CE marking. The infographic is based on a Commission document, which you can consult here for more detailed information. Read more...  The European Commission invites you to vote on what Europe could look like in 2050 to help steer future policy and research planning. Read more... | Research  The EU-funded REWIRE project has developed an innovative rehabilitation platform for stroke patients based on an intelligent game engine. This system will be a big help for hospitals which are being saturated by the large number of stroke victims each year. Read more...  The chronic lung disease COPD affects between 4-10% of Europeans, but about 70% of them are underdiagnosed: a major public health problem. By developing a simulation environment of the respiratory system and creating a decision-support system for clinicians, the European research project SYNERGY-COPD wants to improve diagnosis and management of the disease. Read more...  After nearly two years of worldwide research, the European MovingLife project (part of the 7th Framework Program) produced a roadmap for mobile health. It includes recommendations for technological research, clinical implementation practice and policy support. Its aim: to accelerate the establishment, acceptance and wide use of mobile eHealth solutions. What actions should be taken to secure a widespread uptake of mobile healthcare technologies? Documents Read more... | Innovation The EU has granted 5 million euros to the project United4Health in order to transform the patient experience with telehealth in Europe. Documents Read more...  Computing power is commonly measured in flops, currently the most powerful computers in Europe are at the petascale level (10^15 flops). Five experts shared their views on the need for Exascale computing capabilities for science and industry and expressed how important it is for Europe to be a leader in achieving this challenge. 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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