Research

EU project develops digital detective to take on healthcare fraudsters

As healthcare fraud across Europe reaches a staggering estimated cost of EUR 30 billion per year, an EU-funded project is developing a digital detective to investigate healthcare cheats.

The iWebcare project, which kicked off in January 2006, is a 2.3 million venture to design an information technology (IT) response to track healthcare swindles.

European Observatories Network

Are you interested in the spread of knowledge and practice in Europe? Is your organisation involved in the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth activities?

The European Commission is interested in creating a network of organisations interested in the analysis, measurement and spread of good practice in Europe, particularly in the field of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth.

Three Western Balkan countries and Turkey join FP7

Croatia, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are now eligible to compete on an equal footing with EU Member States in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), following the signature of Memoranda of Understanding with the European Commission. A similar agreement was also recently signed between Turkey and the Commission.

In gaining 'associated status', the signatory countries will now be able to participate in all the FP7 calls for proposals, including those opened since the beginning of the year.

Palpable technology helps rehabilitate children with different abilities

A new technology from the European research project PalCom makes rehabilitation more effective and enjoyable for children with motor or cognitive impairments. The prototype, developed in collaboration with an Italian hospital, is a set of interactive tiles used during swimming pool therapy.

One of the outcomes of the European research project PalCom is a new technology for rehabilitation children with Down's syndrome, autism or other kinds of physical and cognitive impairment.

New online information service puts patients in charge

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt today unveiled a new website, NHS Choices, which aims to personalise healthcare and provide information that will allow patients to make meaningful choices about when and where to receive their treatment.

NHS Choices is an information service fit for the 21st century - a resource that gives patients authoritative medical information and enables patients and carers to make better, more informed choices about their health and wellbeing.

Call for the eHealth Book Chapters

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2007
"Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems"

A book edited by
Wayne Pease, University of Southern Queensland, Australia,
Prof. Malcolm Cooper, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan, and Assoc. Professor Raj Gururajan, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

1bn in digital technologies for Europeans to age well

Responding to the needs of Europe's growing ageing population, the Commission has today adopted a European Action Plan for "Ageing Well in the Information Society". This Action Plan is accompanied by a new joint European research programme raising to over 1bn the research investment on information and communications technologies (ICT) targeted at improving the life of older people at home, in the workplace and in society in general. These new EU initiatives will contribute to allowing older Europeans to stay active for longer and live independently.

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