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eHealth Newsletter - 13/10/2011

13 October 2011
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
INBIOMEDvision Training Challenge - application deadline: 31/12/2011

23 April 2012 - 27 April 2012 Catalonia, Spain

This is intended to be a 5 day intensive course (2 groups of 5 students) taking place in Spain. The INBIOMEDvision approach of integrating medical informatics, chemoinformatics, and bioinformatics is to foster collaboration on complex case studies within a small group of researchers who have a widely varying but complementary backgrounds, ensuring a way of crossing borders between disciplines. Expenses of travel/accommodation/meals of the successful applicants will be fully covered. Application deadline: 31st December 2011.

See also: VPH activities at the EC

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Beyond Silos - The Why and How of ICT in Integrated Care Service Provision

23 November 2011 Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Today's healthcare and social care services are usually delivered independently, leading to inefficiencies, duplication of resources or reduced levels of quality of care. Older people are particularly affected by this situation since they often need both types of services, such as support with daily living activities and chronic disease management. ICT has the potential to support integrated service delivery to achieve high quality independent living and wellbeing for older people across Europe and elsewhere. Against this background, the conference will look beyond today's care silos at strategies, processes and business models to reach this goal.

NEWS ARTICLE
Call for submission of papers describing new methods and tools for image-based approaches to the VPH/Physiome

(19 September 2011) The special issue is on Medical Imaging in Computational Physiology IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. It will give particular attention to contributions describing methods and tools combined with a thorough clinical evaluation. Submission of manuscripts deadline: February 1, 2012. For more information, check the dedicated website.

Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: VPH activities at the EC

NEWS ARTICLE
Empowering the patient: European Commission wants clearer rules for information on prescription medicines

(11 October 2011) On October 11th, he European Commission adopted revised proposals clarifying the information that industry can supply to the public on prescription-only medicines. Patients are increasingly interested in learning more about the medicines they take and want more of a say in how they are treated. At the same time, patients are confronted with a growing volume of information from various sources and often find it difficult to identify reliable information about medicines. The increased use of the internet over recent years makes the need for clarity even more important. Online information on medicines must be accurate and reliable. In its revised proposals, the Commission amends its original proposals of 2008 and responds to requests from the European Parliament.

See also: ICT for Health

NEWS ARTICLE
Q&A: Information to patients on prescription-only medicines

(11 October 2011) MEMO available in 23 languages: What are the challenges of information on medicines in the EU? What does the Commission set out to achieve with these proposals? What 's new in these amended proposals? How do you distinguish between information and advertising? How would the proposals ensure that information is objective and non-promotional? Would it be possible to give information on medicines via television, radio or via other media? How about information over the internet? Would this still be allowed? What are the next steps?

NEWS ARTICLE
PredictAD - From Patient Data to Personalised Healthcare in Alzheimer's Disease

(7 October 2011) Dementia has been recently identified as a health priority both in Europe and in the USA. Efficient solutions for early diagnosis and treatments are highly needed. The PredictAD project has developed several approaches for making the diagnosis more efficient and objective. PredictAD has taken several steps towards solving the challenge of AD diagnostics by many innovations and practical solutions. The exploitation of the PredictAD results has been started. Several patent applications have been filed and the technologies developed have been already licensed.

Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: Previous EC funded eHealth projects in focus

New in the Library

ARTICLE
The Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme: ICT hand in hand with social innovation

In this interview published by Insight publisher (www.projects.eu.com) two of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme's most senior figures, Lena Gustafsson, President of the AAL's Association and Silas Olsson, acting Director of the AAL's central management unit in Brussels, provide a unique insight into the work being done to develop ICT solutions to help our growing older population in Europe live longer, independent, active and healthy lives.

BROCHURE
ICT for Societal Challenges

11 October 2011

Thanks to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)it will be possible in the future to provide all citizens, regardless of their location, with better and personalised healthcare, achieving at the same time relevant cost savings for patients and the society at large. Citizens and business' interactions with public authorities will be faster and more effective, also across the borders. A greater number of people will be able to live safely and independently, and those from disadvantaged groups will be able to get fully involved in society. Last but not least, ICT will help tackling environmental issues, such as energy saving, in the perspective of a sustainable growth. This booklet lists projects that illustrate these benefits and show the strong potential in addressing and solving societal challenges.

See also: PDF of the brochure for downloading

POLICY AND LEGISLATION
The Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human - VPHOP Project's latest deliverables

10 October 2011

Several deliverables from the project are now available: 'D3.3 Range of functional metrics for each subject in the three subject Cohorts', 'D4.3 Second hypermodel prototype', 'D6.3 Bone Micro-Architecture Database', 'D6.4 Specification for prognosis application'. (see bottom of the web-page)

Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: VPH activities at the EC

REPORTS AND STUDIES
Enterprise 2.0 in Europe

7 October 2011

The present report contains the final results for the study on "Enterprise 2.0 in Europe", produced by Tech4i2, IDC and Headshift for the European Commission. The report is addresses 4 main issues: What is Enterprise 2.0? Why it matters? How is it implemented? So what should the European Commission do? The key novelty lies not so much in technological developments, but in the values of web 2.0: emergent approach, open innovation, no hierarchy, many-to-many, rapid development. In particular, we consider E20 as a key enabler of open innovation and innovative working practices (results driven, employee centered, based on open communication).

Contact: Fred-Arne.ODEGAARD@ec.europa.eu

SPEECH
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Caring about caring

Meeting of the European Parliament Interest Group on Carers, European Parliament, Brussels, 11 October 2011

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