EU Tube - Sharing the sights and sounds of Europe on YouTube
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The European Commission has launched a dedicated channel on YouTube to make its audiovisual material more widely available to the public. "This initiative reflects the Commission's commitment to better explain its policies and actions on issues which concern citizens across the EU - such as climate change, energy or immigration" said Margot Wallström, Vice-President for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy.
WeSpot SecNurse: Intelligent Care sensor
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The SecNurse sends an alarm to the existing nurse call system when the sensor detects that someone has left the bed, caused for example, by a fall or wandering.
Final approval of the Swiss National eHealth Strategy
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The Swiss National Strategy recognizes that Switzerland has an advanced eHealth level of development but in general it is on delay comparing with foreign realizations and activities in this sector.
EU project develops digital detective to take on healthcare fraudsters
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The iWebcare project, which kicked off in January 2006, is a 2.3 million venture to design an information technology (IT) response to track healthcare swindles.
Philips and University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf to test the first MRI/PET
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The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and Royal Philips Electronics have developed a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system for neurodegenerative diseases to support clinicians in diagnosing the onset and type of disease as early as possible. The new diagnostic technique, which has already proven its accuracy using historical image data and known patient outcomes, is about to undergo clinical evaluation at UKE.
European Observatories Network
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The European Commission is interested in creating a network of organisations interested in the analysis, measurement and spread of good practice in Europe, particularly in the field of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth.
Three Western Balkan countries and Turkey join FP7
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In gaining 'associated status', the signatory countries will now be able to participate in all the FP7 calls for proposals, including those opened since the beginning of the year.
IBM contributes software that predicts spread of emerging infectious diseases
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IBM announced that it has made available an advanced software technology that can help predict the transmission of diseases across countries and around the globe to the open source community. The tool will aid scientists and public health officials in understanding and planning more efficient responses to health crises, ultimately providing new tools for protecting population health.
A novel ontology-based biomedical search engine
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- retrieves PubMed abstracts for your search query,
- detects terms from the Gene Ontology (GO) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the abstracts,
- displays the subset of the GO and MeSH relevant to the keywords, and
- allows you to browse the ontologies and display only papers containing specific GO and MeSH terms.
ScanBalt Forum 2007
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The ScanBalt Forum 2007 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 4-5 October, 2007. The focus of this year's event will be science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship.
The focus of ScanBalt Forum 2007 lies on science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship, a field of distinction for Göteborg region.