eHealthNews.EU Portal, the first European eHealth news portal, is presenting the Top 20 news articles of the year 2009, according to the most commonly viewed pages:

1. Top Articles - 2009
Top Articles by months (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December).

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation announced that it is making source code for the IHTSDO Workbench, including tools to develop, maintain, and facilitate the use of SNOMED CT, freely available under an Apache2 open source agreement.

The European Network for Cell Imaging and Tracking Expertise (ENCITE) is a four year project funded by the European Commission that started in June 2008 and consists of 29 international scientific partners from ten countries, co-ordinated by the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR).

The closing event of the two-year Value+ project called for enhanced political commitment on patient involvement both at policy and project level. Meaningful involvement of patients enhances project results so that the project's learnings can contribute more effectively to patient-centred, equitable healthcare throughout the EU.

Transinsight's GoPubMed.org, the semantic search engine for the life sciences, is able to generate an advanced statistical overview applied to the eHealth domain. With novel text-mining technologies and ontological background knowledge this feature can analyze the potential and the trends of any scientific topic in a fast and automated way.

Telemedicine can help increase accessibility to healthcare for patients living in remote geographical areas, allow patients with chronic diseases to be monitored at home and involve patients in the management of their own healthcare.

The EU ERA-NET initiative EuroNanoMed will support eight transnational research projects with EUR 17 million based on the result of its first call for proposals, which was launched in May 2009 to promote collaborative and interdisciplinary research into nanomedicine - the application of nanotechnology to health.