Augmented Reality Visor to Dramatically Improve Surgery
Employing new photonics technology, European scientists are developing a new Augmented Reality surgical visor in a bid to improve accuracy of interventions, showing anaesthetic and medical data while superimposing a patient's x-ray in perfect unison with their body, meaning surgeons never having to look away during an operation and surgery times reduced by over 20 minutes for every 3 hours.
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Wearable AI System can Detect a Conversation's Tone
It's a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety or conditions such as Asperger's, this can make social situations extremely stressful. But what if there was a more objective way to measure and understand our interactions?
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Paving the Way for eHealth Interoperability: The EURO-CAS Project Launches Today
The EURO-CAS project launched operations today to deliver the eHealth Conformity Assessment Scheme for Europe in 2018. This scheme will help European health systems assess the conformity of eHealth products and solutions with international standards, and will enhance vendors' visibility by offering public recognition of conformity of their products.
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European Commission Seeks Input on a Reflection and Orientation Paper on Smart Wearables
Smart wearables provide technology-based solutions to pressing societal and economic challenges in the areas of healthy ageing, elderly care, emergency management, safety at work, productivity enhancement, training of professionals, energy management of homes and others.
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Gene Editing Takes on New Roles
What combinations of mutations help cancer cells survive? Which cells in the brain are involved in the onset of Alzheimer's? How do immune cells conduct their convoluted decision-making processes? Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now combined two powerful research tools - CRISPR gene editing and single cell genomic profiling - in a method that may finally help us get answers to these questions and many more.
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eHealth Hub Project Survey: Take Your Chance to Give Your Opinion and Make a Difference
The eHealth Hub project aims at providing business oriented services tailored to the needs of European eHealth SMEs and relevant stakeholders, and to secure their continuation after the project end via a sustainable support structure, while stimulating the demand for eHealth solutions.
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RELIEF Project: One of the 50 Best Digital Ideas
The RELIEF project, led by BravoSolution Spain, whose objective is to search for new technologies that improve the self-management of chronic pain patients, has been awarded as one of the 50 Best Digital Ideas in 2016, bestowed by leading Spanish financial daily Expansión, in the Digital Institutions category. RELIEF is a Pre-Commercial procurement project co-funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme.
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Smart wearables provide technology-based solutions to pressing societal and economic challenges in the areas of healthy ageing, elderly care, emergency management, safety at work, productivity enhancement, training of professionals, energy management of homes and others. 
The eHealth Hub project aims at providing business oriented services tailored to the needs of European eHealth SMEs and relevant stakeholders, and to secure their continuation after the project end via a sustainable support structure, while stimulating the demand for eHealth solutions.