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Agreement on new € 3.6 billion "competitiveness and innovation programme"

The European Parliament has adopted the first "Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme" (CIP). Between 2007 and 2013, some 350,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will receive € 3.6 billion in EU support to invest in all forms of innovation and growth. The new programme will support actions to help enterprises and industry to innovate. It will also boost energy efficiency and renewable energy sources, environmental technologies and a better use of information and communication technology (ICT). The final adoption in Council will follow in the coming weeks.

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Google Trends and eHealth

Google Trends represents a new service offered by Google which allow you to compare the world's interest in your favourite topics. By example we have entered four topics: eHealth, Telemedicine, Medical Informatics and Health Informatics in order to identify how often they've been searched for on Google over time.

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Quick and easy, iMedOne gives hospital staff more time with patients

The Bundesknappschaft hospital in Bochum-Langendreer, Germany, cares for a large number of patients and subsequently generates a lot of information. TietoEnator's easy-to-use hospital information system, iMedOne, is therefore vital for staff to be able to devote more time to their patients.

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Commission seeks to improve network and information security in Europe

Businesses, individuals and public administrations in Europe still underestimate the risks of insufficiently protecting networks and information. Security presently represents only around 5-13% of IT expenditure, which is alarmingly low. The Commission is therefore promoting greater awareness, in a policy document adopted today, through an open and inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue on a new IT Security Strategy for Europe. A partnership amongst Member States, involving the IT industry and users as well as the European network security agency ENISA should lead to more trustworthy, secure and reliable information and communication technologies. People and organisations must be empowered to look after their own interests and responsibilities.

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The telecare challenge

The growing interest and investment in telecare is welcome for the delivery of efficient social and health care, particularly for clients in the comfort of their own homes. Government plans the availability of a wide range and number of monitoring devices to be made available for improved services to a greatly increased number of citizens. BroadCare provides the management platform for effective operational management of these services.

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The EU Promotes Top Research In Biomedical Informatics To Support Individualised Medicine

The Commission of the European Union has funded with 4.85 million euros the Network of Excellence INFOBIOMED 'Structuring European Biomedical Informatics to Support Individualised Healthcare'. This pan-European project aims to develop tools and methods in Biomedical Informatics (BMI) and to create a stable and lasting structure for this discipline in Europe.

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Draft Final Conference conclusions - eHealth 2006 Conference, Málaga, Spain

eHealth for Europe: Resolving to work together
The recently agreed World Health Assembly eHealth Resolution (WHA58/28) is testament to the growing commitment of governments from around the globe to the huge range of possibilities offered by eHealth. These opportunities are on offer for actors across the healthcare spectrum, encompassing citizens, patients, healthcare professionals, care providers and purchasers, governments and industry. eHealth also provides a variety of tools which can be of use for prevention and health information purposes.

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Tromsø¸ Telemedicine and eHealth Conference 2006

12-14 June 2006

The 2006 conference is about the imagination and exploration of probable, preferable and possible futures of society and the role of eHealth and telemedicine in particular. Participants at this conference are invited to present their research and are challenged to share their views on the future of health, society and technology.

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Frost and Sullivan honors Siemens for Medical Imaging Growth and Technology Excellence

Frost & Sullivan recently presented its 2006 Medical Imaging Growth Award and 2005 Award for Excellence in Technology to Siemens Medical Solutions. Each year the Medical Imaging Growth Award is given to a company that has demonstrated an exceptional growth strategy within its industry. Siemens was chosen this year in recognition of its renewed commitment to pursue innovative growth strategies that forge the way for continued market expansion and sustained industry ascendancy.

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Potocnik highlights opportunities for SMEs in FP7

The Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will be more inclusive for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) than its predecessors, Janez Potocnik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research, assured participants attending a conference on SME participation in the Framework Programme in Kortrijk, Belgium, on 23 May.

SMEs are vital to the European economy, with approximately 25 million of them accounting for close to two-thirds of Europe's employment and GDP.

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