TABD Recommendation on Innovation
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8 May 2007 Berlin, GermanyThis event is organised by the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) and is supported by the EU Commission and the US Department of Commerce.
Innovation drives economic growth and job creation through increased productivity. Innovation helps our economies adapt to challenges resulting from demographic change and the shift of economic gravity towards Asia.
RoboBraille - A European Braille and Speech Translation Service
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RoboBraille is an e-mail based service that translates written documents to and from Braille or synthetic speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users. The primary group targeted for this service is the visually impaired and other print-impaired readers.
Orion Health to Track Millions of Patient Notes Across 3 Hospitals in Leicester, UK
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Orion Health Limited, a leading provider of integration and clinical workflow technology to the health sector, announced today that University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has selected Orion Health to build a new document tracking solution to improve access and filing for patient notes at Leicester's hospitals (Glenfield Hospital, Leicester General and Leicester Royal Infirmary) and 12 community facilities.
eHealth Project of the Month - eHealth ERA
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eHealth ERA contributes to greater transparency of national eHealth strategies, roadmaps and implementation activities.
The vision of transparent European healthcare systems which deliver high quality healthcare to all citizens independent of their location when in need of care is coming closer to reality. A European eHealth space facilitates this development.
Wirefile seeks international joint venture partners
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Wirefile's particular focus is on opportunities in the emerging "wellness through prevention" market, reflecting the increasing trend in healthcare towards the prevention, rather than the treatment, of chronic diseases.
Grid technology to help European cancer research project
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The three-year multidisciplinary research programme funded by the EU will aim to combine new technologies with biology to enrich molecular libraries and increase the likelihood of discovering potential drugs to treat cancer.
ICW Networks Heidelberg University Hospital with Partner Hospitals
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- Category: InterComponentWare AG (ICW)
Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany, and its partner hospitals of the Health Centers Rhein-Neckar GmbH will be able to jointly access their patients medical data. Using the Professional Suite of the international eHealth specialist, InterComponentWare AG (ICW), this cooperation will enable those involved in a patient's treatment to access medical data via an interfacility medical record.
ICT Policy Support Programme Info Day
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A launch event for the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) will be organised on 24 May 2007 in Brussels. This event corresponds to the opening of the first call for proposals of the ICT PSP. The draft agenda of this event and details of the venue are now available.
eHealth Policy Seminar
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Regions - The Key-players in delivering eHealth: What can the "e" do for your region?
This event will take place in Brussels, 11 May 2007, and will be delivered by the eHealth Workgroup of the IANIS+ Project.
EU project develops intelligent wheelchair
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This requires tapping into the person's neural network, interpreting the cerebral signals in real time and then developing a mechanism that could respond to these instructions and steer the wheelchair with a high degree of accuracy.