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').
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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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Personalised Solutions for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injuries
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and a Consortium of leading research institutions across Europe are taking the treatment of traumatic brain injuries in a more individualised direction in the EU funded project TBIcare.
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