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European Commission launches proposals for first Joint Technology Initiatives

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18 May 2007
The European Commission is now on the road to creating the first ever Europe-wide public-private partnerships to boost research and development, having adopted proposals for initiatives in two strategic industrial sectors.

The Commission presented two Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), worth approximately €5 billion, on embedded computing systems, to be known as ARTEMIS (Advanced Research and Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems), and on innovative medicines (Innovative Medicines Initiative).

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BIOTEX Project

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16 May 2007
Integration of health monitoring tools into textiles brings the benefits of safety and comfort to the users. Instrumented clothes will provide remote monitoring of vitals signs, diagnostics to improve early illness detection and metabolic disorder and benefits to the reduction on medical social costs to the citizen. Ambulatory healthcare, isolated people, convalescent people and patients with chronic diseases are addressed.
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MRI for restless patients

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16 May 2007
It's not easy to keep absolutely still in the 'bore' during a magnetic resonance imaging examination – yet even the tiniest motion can distort the results. The PROMO optical recognition system compensates for such errors.

The patient lies in the bore, keeping as still as he can - but he finds it very hard to remain immobile for so long. If he moves too much, he risks causing errors - known by experts as artifacts - in the magnetic resonance image.

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Share knowledge to survive, says new report

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12 May 2007
The EU should be seen as an advocate and example of international collaboration in research and development, according to a new report from the think tanks Demos and The Centre.

The report, "The Atlas of Ideas", is the outcome of an 18-month study. It charts the rise of innovation in China, India and South Korea, and sets out four key recommendations on how the EU could best respond to the challenges posed by these countries.

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Consultation backs EU action on health services

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11 May 2007
European Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou presented the results of the recent consultation on health services to the Informal Health Council in Aachen, Germany on 20 April. The results show that most contributors favour some form of EU action on health services, combining both legislative elements and practical support for cooperation between European health systems.

Contributors saw a need for better information to patients to enable informed choices about cross-border care and greater clarity about the procedures to follow, with a broad consensus that quality and safety of healthcare should be ensured by the country where treatment is provided.

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eHealth Project of the Month - SYMBIOmatics

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10 May 2007
ICT for HealthThe increasing convergence of biology, medicine and genetics provides an opportunity to leverage synergies between the three areas for the benefit of health. Biology and genetics are emerging as information sciences while medicine is increasingly adopting information systems and informatics approaches to support healthcare delivery.
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More research needed into health effects of electromagnetic fields, say experts

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09 May 2007
Further research is needed to determine the impact of electromagnetic fields on health, particularly in the long term, according to the latest Opinion published by the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR).

Electromagnetic fields come from a range of devices, including power lines, electrical appliances, mobile phones, video displays and certain diagnostic instrumentation.

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More eHealth News ...

  1. RoboBraille - A European Braille and Speech Translation Service
  2. eHealth Project of the Month - eHealth ERA
  3. Grid technology to help European cancer research project
  4. EU project develops intelligent wheelchair
  5. Successful EU support: MobilAlarm device available at the market
  6. Electronic health services without borders
  7. Common 2007 eHealth Declaration
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