Novoseek in the Virtual Library of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research
Novoseek, the free biomedical search engine developed by the bioinformatics company Bioalma, has been incorporated to electronic information resources available at the Spanish Council of Scientific Research (CSIC).
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ICN and IHTSDO Team-up to Ensure a Common Health Terminology
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced a collaborative agreement to advance terminology harmonization and foster interoperability in health information systems.
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20 Years of European Commission's Support to the Development of eHealth
The European Commission (EC) has been supporting eHealth research and development (R&D) through Framework Programmes (FP) for over 20 years now and contributed to the emergence of new generations of technologies in several fields of healthcare. With the support of the Member States, industries and users it has elaborated a strategy of deployment of these technologies to ensure ever improving and sustainable health services.
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eHealth Ministerial Declaration: European Co-operation on eHealth
Adopted 15/03/2010
Following the adoption by the EPSCO Council of the Conclusions on safe and efficient healthcare through eHealth, we(1) acknowledge that ICT for Health (eHealth) is a tool to improve quality and patient safety, to modernise national healthcare systems, to increase their efficiency and make them better adapted to the individual needs of citizens, patients, health professionals, and the challenges of an ageing society.
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eHealth, a Strategic Framework for the Spanish Presidency
The Spanish Presidency has four strategic goals: to introduce a global vision for an e-Health policy totally integrated in the post 2010 European Agenda; to drive a new eHealth Action Plan, facing the new European challenges; to develop and promote ministerial agreements, in particular regarding integration of e-Health in community policy and implementing reinforced governance.
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New International eHealth Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Physiome Project
Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Physiome, or NMS Physiome for short, officially started on January 27th, 2010. This is a VPH Internationalisation cooperation project between the European integrated project VPHOP, and the United States NIH Center for physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures, SIMBIOS.
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Transatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges through ICT-Enabled Solutions
The overall goal of the ARGOS eHealth Pilot Project is to contribute to establishing a "Transatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges through ICT-Enabled Solutions" in order to develop and promote "Common Methods for Responding to Global eHealth Challenges in the EU and the US".
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