eHealth Project of the Month - eHealth ERA

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01 May 2007
ICT for HealtheHealth ERA contributes to greater transparency of national eHealth strategies, roadmaps and implementation activities.

The vision of transparent European healthcare systems which deliver high quality healthcare to all citizens independent of their location when in need of care is coming closer to reality. A European eHealth space facilitates this development.

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Grid technology to help European cancer research project

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30 April 2007
The recently launched CancerGrid Project will bring together partners from industry and academia in the first ever large scale application of computer grid technology for finding and developing new anti-cancer agents.

The three-year multidisciplinary research programme funded by the EU will aim to combine new technologies with biology to enrich molecular libraries and increase the likelihood of discovering potential drugs to treat cancer.

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EU project develops intelligent wheelchair

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26 April 2007
Researchers in MAIA, an EU funded project, have shown how a person can control, using only their brain, the wheelchair on which they are sitting.

This requires tapping into the person's neural network, interpreting the cerebral signals in real time and then developing a mechanism that could respond to these instructions and steer the wheelchair with a high degree of accuracy.

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Successful EU support: MobilAlarm device available at the market

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23 April 2007
empiricaAs of May 2007, the mobile emergency device that was tested in the international project MobilAlarm will be marketed. empirica co-ordinated this project from April 2004 to August 2005. The European Commission supported MobilAlarm in the framework of its programme eTEN electronic Trans-European Networks.
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Electronic health services without borders

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23 April 2007
EU Member States and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway have adopted a common declaration on their commitment to pursue structured cooperation on cross-border electronic health services across Europe.

"By adopting today's Declaration, we seek to ensure that, in the future, electronic health services for Europe's citizens do not stop at national borders," said the German State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Klaus Theo Schröder.

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Common 2007 eHealth Declaration

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20 April 2007
ICT for HealthAt 18-19 April 2007 eHealth Conference, representatives of European Union Member States and members of the European Economic Area adopted a common Declaration. The representatives agreed to pursue close interaction and collaboration in the area of cross-border electronic health services throughout Europe. The representatives agreed to pursue close interaction and collaboration in the area of cross-border electronic health services throughout Europe.
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Pan-European supercomputer comes a step closer to reality

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19 April 2007
European researchers will soon have access to a world-class high performance computing infrastructure, thanks to the new Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PACE) initiative.

PACE brings together the supercomputing centres of 15 European countries, with the goal of strengthening European science, engineering and supercomputer technologies. At a ceremony in Berlin on 17 April, the partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the new initiative.

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More eHealth News ...

  1. Robot with a foot prosthesis
  2. European research helps people with dementia to navigate their day
  3. eHealth Project of the Month - Health-e-Child
  4. The European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) is starting the project EMERGE
  5. Surgeons Sharpen Skills with New Training Simulator
  6. ICT drives 50% of EU growth, says Commission's annual report on the digital economy
  7. Computer says "yes" to more accessible therapy
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