Putting Patients in the Driving Seat: A Digital Future for Healthcare
The European Commission has unveiled an Action Plan to address barriers to the full use of digital solutions in Europe's healthcare systems. The goal is to improve healthcare for the benefit of patients, give patients more control of their care and bring down costs. While patients and health professionals are enthusiastically using telehealth solutions and millions of Europeans have downloaded smartphone apps to keep track of their health and wellbeing, digital healthcare has yet to reap its great potential to improve healthcare and generate efficiency savings.
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The European Commission Union Committed to Contribute to an Improved Health Security Framework
Health Ministers from the Global Health Security Initiative met in Berlin to discuss the future priorities to strengthening global health security. The Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI) is an informal, international partnership between France , Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the United States, the European Commission and the World Health Organisation, established in 2001 to strengthen health preparedness and response globally to threats of biological, chemical, radio-nuclear terrorism (CBRN) and pandemic influenza.
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Patients' Electronic Medical Record to the Foot of the Hospital Bed
Researchers from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) are collaborating with the firm IonIDE to develop a system that will enable hospital patients who suffer some type of handicap to have access to digital entertainment and communication services by means of an intelligent terminal attached to their beds, which will also allow medical personnel to consult the patient's medical history.
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Stakeholder Survey: Your views on Europe's Digital Future
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) has launched a Stakeholder Survey to learn more about individuals, groups, organisations and entities who are involved in, or have views on, shaping Digital Agenda for Europe.
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Hospitals from France, the Netherlands and Spain Receive Stage 6 Awards
HIMSS Analytics Europe, subsidiary of HIMSS Europe, recognized six hospitals in Europe with a Stage 6 Award during the annual HIMSS Europe CIO Summit, that has been taken place in Mallorca from the 18th to 20th of November.
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New Website to Standardize Cardiac Educational Training Throughout Europe
A recently launched European website is the first in the world to address the challenges of internationally harmonized medical education and certification. The dynamic new online education platform commissioned by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and developed by Enforme Interactive, will provide consistent, standardized education and testing to its 75,000 members across 52 countries.
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The Citizens of the EU and the USA Deserve an e-Leap in Health Care
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who was invited to Boston as a keynote speaker at the top level "2012 Transatlantic Health IT/eHealth Cooperation Assembly", an eHealth event organised by the European Union and the United States of America, searched for answers to the following question in his presentation: what are the co-operation opportunities between the EU and the USA in the contemporary organisation of medicine, which is largely dependent on information technology?
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HIMSS Analytics Europe, subsidiary of HIMSS Europe, recognized six hospitals in Europe with a Stage 6 Award during the annual HIMSS Europe CIO Summit, that has been taken place in Mallorca from the 18th to 20th of November.