Top News The marketplace is designed to generate real business and lasting effective relationships. It will also co-locate the 2012 Transatlantic Health IT/eHealth Cooperation Assembly, co-organised by the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the European Commission's DG Connect. This assembly will offer substantial opportunities to discuss the EU-US Roadmap of activities to advance the HHS-EC MoU goals. Activities within this event are listed in the main "Marketplace" programme, to help participants plan and prioritize their schedules. The new centre will significantly improve the healthcare provision of this border area, which, owing to its location in the mountains, suffers from accessibility problems. The hospital will cater for a permanent population of 30 000, as well as influxes of over 100 000 more during holiday seasons. The hospital is planned to be ready to welcome new patients from end of 2012. | Calendar (20/09/2012) This 60 minutes webinar gives: • A status update on existing telehealth projects, • A view of the plans in the national strategy in Denmark, • A summary of experiences from other countries, • A overview of the eMEDlink solution, CSC's solution within the telemedicine / telecare, • A comparison of the solution with other solutions within the domain, • A presentation of customer case studies and experiences. (19/09/2012) This information day will focus on the new research and innovation area open in the ICT workprogramme 2013 "Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation" (CAPS). CAPS are ICT systems leveraging the emerging "network effect" by combining open online social media, distributed knowledge creation and data from real environments (Internet of Things), in order to create new forms of social innovation. They are expected to support environmentally aware, grassroots processes and practices to share knowledge, to achieve changes in lifestyle, production and consumption patterns, and to set up more participatory democratic processes.The event will provide first-hand information on the call, discuss some initial examples, and give voice to any participant interested in presenting and discussing her/his own ideas on the subject. Participation is free of charge. (28/09/2012) The Computer Assisted Medical Interventions (CAMI) LABEX strategic vision is that an integrated approach of medical interventions will result in a breakthrough in terms of quality of medical interventions, demonstrated in terms of medical benefits and degree of penetration of CAMI technology in routine clinical practice. CAMI brings together the 6 French research teams that have been able to invent new concepts in this domain, to prove their feasibility, and to turn them into clinically used prototypes translated into widely disseminated industrial products. The 6 Universities, together with CNRS, INSERM and Institut Telecom, very warmly support CAMI, which fits in two of the main priorities of their strategy: Information Technologies and Healthcare. | Policy This 60 minutes webinar gives: • A status update on existing telehealth projects, • A view of the plans in the national strategy in Denmark, • A summary of experiences from other countries, • A overview of the eMEDlink solution, CSC's solution within the telemedicine / telecare, • A comparison of the solution with other solutions within the domain, • A presentation of customer case studies and experiences. Opening of the academic year 2012-2013, University of Technology, Delft, 3 September 2012 | Research Each year in the Global Diabetes Survey, patients, primary care physicians, specialists, politicians, economists, representatives from insurance companies, in short, all diabetes-related stakeholder groups, will be invited to take the survey and submit a standardized questionnaire. The goal is to describe the quality of diabetes care in a transparent and unbiased way. The results of the survey could be used to motivate stakeholders to fix weaknesses and improve diabetes care. The annual report on the quality of diabetes care should be based on the responses from as many survey participants as possible. It is also important that each of the survey's focus groups is represented so that survey gives a comprehensive picture of diabetes care. A lot of older people wear alarm systems that contact emergency services directly if they suffer a fall. In that situation the person is often in pain and maybe in shock, so if the alarm is sent to many, help can get there quicker. Researchers are therefore working on a way to connect fall alarms to social media. FARSEEING is an EU-funded project, bringing together 11 partners to work on falls in older people and cost savings in this area. Based on the data collected so far the researchers say it is possible to predict a person's next fall with greater accuracy and therefore warn them to sit or lie down when they could be in danger. The team is now also working on a prototype social network that can help raise the alarm in such situations, instead of sending an alert only to the formal care services. This information day will focus on the new research and innovation area open in the ICT workprogramme 2013 "Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation" (CAPS). CAPS are ICT systems leveraging the emerging "network effect" by combining open online social media, distributed knowledge creation and data from real environments (Internet of Things), in order to create new forms of social innovation. They are expected to support environmentally aware, grassroots processes and practices to share knowledge, to achieve changes in lifestyle, production and consumption patterns, and to set up more participatory democratic processes.The event will provide first-hand information on the call, discuss some initial examples, and give voice to any participant interested in presenting and discussing her/his own ideas on the subject. Participation is free of charge. The Computer Assisted Medical Interventions (CAMI) LABEX strategic vision is that an integrated approach of medical interventions will result in a breakthrough in terms of quality of medical interventions, demonstrated in terms of medical benefits and degree of penetration of CAMI technology in routine clinical practice. CAMI brings together the 6 French research teams that have been able to invent new concepts in this domain, to prove their feasibility, and to turn them into clinically used prototypes translated into widely disseminated industrial products. The 6 Universities, together with CNRS, INSERM and Institut Telecom, very warmly support CAMI, which fits in two of the main priorities of their strategy: Information Technologies and Healthcare. | Innovation  More computer processing power means more performance, which, in turn, means new applications, devices and entirely new markets for products and services. But current technologies cannot support the exponential increase in computer performance since the 1960s forever. An EU-funded network bringing together Europe's leading experts from industry and academia has been working hard to identify the challenges, spur innovation and drive opportunities in a sector that affects almost every aspect of modern life. Read more... | Subscription Information This is the newsletter of the eHealth web site on Europa. It is hosted by the Communications Networks, Content & Technologies Newsroom - a 'one stop shop' on European Communications Networks, Content & Technologies news spanning all Directorates-General of the European Commission. You may unsubscribe or broaden your subscription from this newsletter by going to Your Profile. | | In this issue - Top News
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