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Reimbursement to Determine Future Course of European Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems Market

The European market for continuous glucose monitoring systems is in its nascent phase. Despite its promising potential, industry participants remain wary due to concerns over reimbursement and acceptance by conservative clinicians. However, the projected integration of continuous glucose monitoring systems with insulin pumps will support market expansion.

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Opening European eHealth research programmes to new participants

As Europe's population ages, improving healthcare and inclusion for the elderly is becoming a fast expanding field of research. But researchers in the new member states and candidate countries have been slow to take advantage of IST funding and cooperation in these areas. The EPIST project team sought to change that.

"The main problem is that research organisations and companies in the New Member Countries (NMCs) and Associated Candidate Countries (ACCs) don't know how EU research projects work," explains EPIST coordinator Ira Vater of European Business Associates in Italy.

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Philips looks into the future at new products preview

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHI) recently unveiled new and innovative concepts based on its 'sense and simplicity' brand positioning at the 2006 Philips Simplicity Event at London's ExCeL exhibition centre.

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EGEE Industry Day

The fifth EGEE Industry Day - Biomedical Challenges in Grid Adoption between Research and Industry - takes place on 24 November 2006 in Helsinki, Finland. It is kindly hosted by the Finnish IT Centre for science.

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SAPHIRE: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on Semantic Interoperability Platform

Supporting Healthcare Professionals with Advanced Tools to Reduce their Loads
The medical practitioners at all levels are becoming more overloaded as the aging population of Europe increases. The health services of the EU can claim considerable credit for the decline in mortality over the last thirty years. However this success, particularly the fall in mortality rates among older people, has increased the demand for healthcare.

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Health and FP7: Opportunities for UK participants

The UK's FP6 National Contact Point is holding a series of three workshops around the country to discuss opportunities for collaborative research and development in the field of health in the forthcoming Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

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Siemens Group Forms the World's First Full Service Diagnostics

Siemens has been given the green light to acquire the diagnostics division of Bayer Healthcare without restrictions. The approval was granted yesterday by the European Commission, following the earlier approval by U.S. antitrust authorities at the beginning of October. This follows the acquisition of the U.S. firm Diagnostic Products Corporation (DPC), which was completed at the end of July.

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Global Health Care Expansion Congress

4th-5th December 2006
In partnership with CNBC Arabiya, International Society for Telemedicine & e-Health, International Hospital Equipment and Solutions, Middle East Health, The Medicine Publishing Company, ArabMedicare.com, Hospital Post Europe, naseba, the global executive event organizer, is presenting the Global Health Care Expansion Congress, taking place at the JW Marriott, Dubai, UAE.

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IST project seeks to improve online news delivery

Researchers working on an EU-funded project have developed a new set of semantic Web tools which they claim will help users find the online news that matters to them most, more quickly.

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Internet must remain the driver for democracy and economic development

The first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) begins yesterday in Athens. It is an important milestone agreed last November at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis (WSIS) as part of the drive to internationalise internet governance, to safeguard freedom online and to bridge the global digital divide.

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