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Open Call SC1-DTH-08-2018: Prototyping a European Interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) Exchange

Large amounts of valuable health data are generated and collected during and between citizens' medical examinations across Europe. However, opportunities to reuse these data for research and better healthcare are often missed because health data continue to be confined in data silos, often not matching semantic standards, quality needs and safe data exchange techniques.

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Smartphone Health Apps Miss Some Daily Activity of Users

If you use your smartphone to monitor your physical activity, you're probably more active than it suggests. A new UBC study finds that the iPhone's built-in pedometer missed about 1,340 steps during a user's typical day when compared to a purpose-built accelerometer worn on the waist.

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Associate Director of Communications

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Director of Communications who will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction to the teams delivering marketing campaigns, media relations, social media delivery, internal communications, publications and events.

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Scientists Design Bacteria to Reflect 'Sonar' Signals for Ultrasound Imaging

In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a scientist's body to repair a blood clot in his brain. While the movie may be still be fiction, researchers at Caltech are making strides in this direction: they have, for the first time, created bacterial cells with the ability to reflect sound waves, reminiscent of how submarines reflect sonar to reveal their locations.

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Ophthalmologists Increasingly Dissatisfied with Electronic Health Records

Ophthalmologists' use of electronic health records (EHR) systems for storing and accessing patients' medical histories more than doubled between 2006 and 2016, while their perceptions of financial and clinical productivity following EHR implementation declined, a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology shows.

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Top 20 Breaking eHealth News of 2017

eHealthNews.eu is proud to announce the top 20 most popular eHealth News from 2017. Have a wonderful 2018 new(s) year filled with health, happiness, and spectacular success!

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Head of the Value Promise "Digitalizing Healthcare"

We at Siemens Healthineers are committed to helping healthcare providers globally to succeed in today's dynamic environment. We are inspired to transform the way things are done - because we want what is best for our people, our customers and ultimately the health of mankind.

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conhIT Newcomer Award 2018: The Search is on for Healthcare IT Talents

17 - 19 April 2018, Berlin, Germany.
Be it robotics experts or software developers for 'paper-free hospitals', the digitisation of the healthcare system means that medical IT specialists are in short supply. In order to bring the health IT industry and healthcare institutions together with potential employees, conhIT - Connecting Healthcare IT is organising a comprehensive programme of events.

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The Importance of the Robot iCub as a Standard Robotic Research Platform for Embodied AI

Robotic research benefited in the last ten years of a standardized common open-source platform for research on embodied artificial intelligence (AI): the humanoid robot iCub. Born in Italy, today it is available in 36 copies in laboratories across Europe, USA, South Korea, Singapore and Japan and more than hundred researchers worldwide contribute to develop its skills.

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Robotic Device Improves Balance and Gait in Parkinson's Disease Patients

Some 50,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD) every year. The American Institute of Neurology estimates there are one million people affected with this neurodegenerative disorder, with 60 years as average age of onset. Falls and fall-related injuries are a major issue for people with Parkinson's - up to 70 percent of advanced PD patients fall at least once a year and two-thirds suffer recurring falls.

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