HeartCycle Project Sets Out to Create Innovative Telemonitoring Solutions
Clothes, bed sheets and home appliances could soon help heart patients to better deal with their condition. The new EU-funded HeartCycle project sets out to create innovative telemonitoring solutions. Launched on 1 March, it is one of the largest biomedical and healthcare research projects in the EU.
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Project of the Month - Health-e-Child
Health-e-Child (HeC) is working to produce a universal biomedical knowledge repository and communication conduit for the future, a common vehicle by which all clinicians will access, analyse, evaluate, enhance and exchange biomedical data of all forms.
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NHS IT Programme Forecasts Better Care and a Billion in Savings
The new IT systems in the NHS are on course to deliver better care and an estimated £1.14 billion in savings by 2014, according to the first annual Benefits Statement published by the Government. It shows that since its introduction, the National Programme for IT has already delivered a total of £208 million in savings by providing quicker, more efficient and convenient patient care.
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New ePractice Community - The eHealth Procurers Forum
The ePractice.eu portal hosts an array of exciting communities which gather members with common interests, offering messaging, blogging, calendar and document sharing tools as well as networking opportunities. Communities are open and help ePractice.eu users to connect even better with other peers to share knowledge and news. Any ePractice.eu registered member can start a community or voluntarily join one.
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Technology Imroves Odds for Critically Ill
Large numbers of unnecessary deaths and avoidable medical complications in intensive care units (ICU) are attributable to the difficulties of treating high glucose levels in critically ill patients' blood. That is about to change for the better thanks to a new automated insulin delivery system developed by European researchers.
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New FP7 eHealth Project - ALERT
A new EU-funded information and communication technology (ICT) project is tackling issues of safety in newly developed drugs. Over the next three and a half years, the ALERT (Early detection of adverse drug events by integrative mining of clinical records and biomedical knowledge) project partners will work on an innovative computer system for a better and faster detection of adverse drug reactions (ADRs).
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EHTEL Briefing Paper "Sustainable Telemedicine: paradigms for future-proof healthcare"
With this Briefing Paper, EHTEL aims to contribute to the re-balancing of deployment efforts between infrastructure and clinical services and between ICT experts and health professionals. It furthermore analyse what should be done to make additional telemedicine services sustainable to support the health and social needs of European citizens/patients.
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