Encouraging Innovation-Friendly Procurement in eHealth
An important success factor for meeting the challenges of health and social care in a sustainable, cost-effective way is to address these through mid- to long-term strategic approaches that not only make use of the latest inventions and innovations but that also help steer the development of new solutions.
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Call for Chapters - Digital Home Care
ICMCC (International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics) planned to publish a book on Digital Home Care by early 2009. This book will cover all aspects of Digital Homecare, e. g. technologies; clinical applications; social, ethical and legal aspects; and future trends.
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New FP7 eHealth Project - DIAdvisor
Under the Framework Programme 7 ICT Challenge 5 the European Commission has granted 7,1 million euros over the next four years to a consortium of 13 partners joined in developing DIAdvisor™ - a unique tool for people with diabetes to better predict and thereby control their blood glucose level.
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Boosting Investment in eHealth Across Europe
Discover new insights on wise decision-making, sources of financing, and good practices for securing success and sustainability of eHealth investments. In order to give stakeholders the opportunity to learn from existing experience, the Financing eHealth study examines investments in eHealth across Europe.
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More than 250 Million Europeans Regularly Use Internet, Says Commission's ICT Progress Report
More than half of Europeans are now regular Internet users, 80% of them have broadband connections and 60% of public services in the EU are fully available online. Two thirds of schools and half of doctors make use of fast Internet connections, thanks to strong broadband growth in Europe.
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New FP7 eHealth Project - MEDNet
MEDNet Project will develop a medical network that addresses the problems of providing health care from a distance. The medical network will be supported by expert physician located in urban cities of Latin America. The medical applications will be vary from gynaecology, paediatric, cardiology to typical infectious diseases for the region such as malaria and tuberculosis.
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CD-MEDICS Project to Speed Up Diagnosis of Coeliac Disease
Designing a new tool to aid in the diagnosis and management of coeliac disease is the aim of the EU-funded CD-MEDICS (Coeliac disease management monitoring diagnosis using biosensors and integrated chip systems) project, which has just got underway.
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