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Commission Seeks Views on Improving Healthcare by Applying ICT (eHealth)

The European Commission is seeking citizens' and other interested parties' views on how the EU can help to deliver widespread benefits to the quality and efficiency of healthcare by applying information and communication technologies (ICT) (so-called 'eHealth').

New Window Opens on European eHealth

A newly redesigned website for IHE-Europe opens a window on the accelerating movement to electronic records across Europe, giving a new visibility to successful programs. The website features links to five pan-European initiatives, nine national programs, and highlights success stories from regional implementations.

EU and US Agree Trade-Related Information and Communication Technology Principles to be Promoted World-Wide

The European Commission and the US Government, under the framework of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC), have agreed on a set of ten fundamental principles for trade in information and communication technology (ICT) services.

Public Consultation on the eHealth Action Plan (eHAP) 2012-2020

The European Commission has been investing in eHealth research for over 20 years. Since 2004, it has been developing targeted policy initiatives aimed at fostering widespread adoption of eHealth technologies across the EU(1).

Commission Awards New EU Legal Status to Cross-Border Databank

A major multi-national research databank on population ageing will be the first ever research infrastructure project to enjoy a new European legal status that will make such projects easier to set up and simpler to run, the European Commission decided.

Greater Diagnostic Accuracy in Pulse-Wave Velocity Measurement

The Austrian research institute AIT Austrian Institute of Technology has in cooperation with German industrial partner I.E.M. developed a 24-hour device to measure blood pressure that basically provides a more-exact diagnosis of high blood pressure than previous blood-pressure measurement devices.

Third Call for VPH NoE Exemplar Projects

This is the third and last call for proposals for VPH NoE Exemplar Projects (EPs), activities that are intended to reinforce VPH ToolKit development. Successful proposals will be awarded financing to hire a postdoc/engineer/programmer for 6 to 12 Person Months for work directly related to the VPH ToolKit.

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Commission Seeks Views on Improving Healthcare by Applying ICT (eHealth)

New Window Opens on European eHealth

EU and US Agree Trade-Related Information and Communication Technology Principles to be Promoted World-Wide

Public Consultation on the eHealth Action Plan (eHAP) 2012-2020

Commission Awards New EU Legal Status to Cross-Border Databank

Greater Diagnostic Accuracy in Pulse-Wave Velocity Measurement

Third Call for VPH NoE Exemplar Projects

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