Over more than three years, the members of the epSOS project, cofunded by the European Commission, have invested hours of hard work as well as enthusiasm into the development of feasible cross-border eHealth services, addressing technical, semantic and legal interoperability challenges.

A new White Paper launching next week suggests that New Zealand can provide a model for health policy makers and IT professionals seeking to reduce costs and increase the quality of healthcare in Europe.

A new website, the "Marketplace for Innovative ideas" has been launched as part of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. The Marketplace is an interactive website designed to help those that are interested and involved in the Partnership to work together and develop their innovative ideas.

University of Granada researchers have developed a software tool that makes an accurate estimation of the risk that a person has to suffer a heart disease. In addition, this software tool allows the performance of massive risk estimations, i.e. it helps estimating the risk that a specific population group has of suffering a heart condition.

Medical devices and eHealth solutions have the potential to improve lives. However, too many people worldwide suffer because they don't have access to the appropriate health technologies. This call highlights the importance of these innovative technologies towards improved health outcomes and the quality of life.

Everyone's online right? Wrong, almost a quarter of Europeans aged 16 and over have never used the internet. If you've supported other people to get online through a project, service or product, we want to hear about it and the benefits it has provided.

An increasing number of everyday devices such as car keys, smart phones and even medical implants need protection from hackers. The encryption method PRESENT is the smallest cipher for such cost and energy constrained applications.