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New Guide Offers Support for the 700,000 People in the UK with Dementia

A new guide has been developed called "Dementia Care - Solutions for Independent Living", offering valuable information on how telecare can be used to support people with dementia and their carers.

Dementia currently affects 700,000 people in the UK, a figure which is set to double in a generation, bringing a financial cost of over £35 billion in residential care and accommodation, lost earnings and unpaid tax.

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Rhapsody Integration Engine Expands NHS Trust Connectivity

Orion Health Limited, a leading provider of integration and clinical workflow technology to the health sector, was pleased to announce today that Rhapsody™ Integration Engine continues to be adopted at a rapid rate by NHS Trusts in England, answering the need to link together internal hospital systems as well as interface to systems deployed under NHS Connecting for Health.

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New Medical Intelligence System Will Help Identify Public Health Threats

The European Commission has developed a medical intelligence system that constantly collects and sorts information from more than 1000 news and 120 public health websites in 32 languages. Complementing traditional approaches, the system, called MediSys, will provide health authorities with real-time knowledge about disease outbreaks or industrial accidents, thereby helping to identify such incidents as early as possible and so react in a timely way. It can also provide invaluable information to authorities tackling a major incident such as a bio-terrorist attack.

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Belgian Hospital Chooses IBM/Mainsoft Portal Solution to Serve Medical Community

IBM and Mainsoft Corporation, an independent software and IBM business partner, announced that the Belgian University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent) has chosen IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 to develop a self-service virtual information center for its 5,000 staff members, students, healthcare professionals, plus more than 380,000 patients and their families that visit the hospital each year.

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High Impact Services in eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth

On the 10th of September 2007, the ePractice.eu Portal will be holding a workshop in Brussels for professionals in the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth domains, focusing on High Impact services.

Deploying large scale services to millions of users is a challenge to ePractice professionals both from the government or the service provider side.

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EU Project Builds European Infrastructure for Testing Biometrics Technologies

An EU-funded project has begun work on setting up a European infrastructure for the testing and certification of biometrics components and systems.

Biometric recognition systems measure the behavioural or physical traits of people. These can be as varied as iris images, fingerprints, the structure of veins in the hand, or even an individual's typing rhythm.

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HIMSS EMEA Leadership Survey

ICT Priorities... Implementation Barriers... Investment, budget and adoption... Emerging Technologies... Staffing Challenges

What are the trends with these and other key ICT issues in your country and across larger regions (Europe, the Middle East and Africa)?

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LifeSensor Technology Provides the Basis for Scientific Study

The eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) was chosen as technology partner, which is providing the web-based personal health record LifeSensor for the three-year research study. BARMER, Germany's largest health insurance provider, starts evaluating the effects of the personal health record on the health behavior and the situation for the provision of health care to its insured as part of a Germany-wide research study.

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Australia Announces Funding for 19 International Research Projects

Australian researchers are welcoming the announcement of AUD 5.2 million (EUR 3.2 million) for 19 research projects involving international partners. Seven of the new projects involve cooperation under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) for research, and 14 in total involve European partners.

"World-class science is currently being undertaken in Australia and these projects allow these leading researchers to participate further in the international science community, enriching our partnership with other countries," said Australian Minister for Education, Science and Training, Julie Bishop.

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Proposals to the eHealth Standardization Bodies

Proposals to the eHealth Standardization Bodies represents a novel dissemination approach of the RIDE Project achievements and in special a web based representation of the Deliverable D.5.3.1 – Proposals to Standardization Bodies.

eHealth Ontology Project has launched a Section which collects 22 Recommendations to the eHealth Standardization Bodies, all interested eHealth professional are welcome to rate and to comment all published Recommendations.

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