MyHealthAvatar to Reshape the Future of HealthcareResearch to set up an online system enabling doctors to access patient's health records from all across the European Union, has been launched. The University of Bedfordshire is leading the European Commission project, MyHealthAvatar, which is designed to give people more knowledge and control of their health via their computers and mobile phones.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/research/3481-myhealthavatar-to-reshape-the-future-of-healthcare
ICT for Societal Challenges (Publication)European society is inexorably shifting in form and nature, influenced by powerful factors, including an ageing population, climate change, an uncertain economic situation, globalisation and lightening-speed technological change. In these circumstances, making the best, and most effective, use of resources - human, financial, material - is not merely desirable, it is absolutely essential.
The European Commission is creating the right conditions for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, through the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) and the EU's new Research and Innovation programme, Horizon 2020.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/download/publications/3479-ict-for-societal-challenges
EU-US eHealth Business Marketplace
eHealth Week 2013 Open to all registered delegates to eHealth Week 2013.
The goal of the 'Marketplace' is to create new business relationships, research, innovation and collaborations leading to innovative health improvements, job creation and economic developments.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/wohit/3478-eu-us-ehealth-business-marketplace
Carestream Ships More Than 6,000 Wireless DR Detectors
Carestream Health has shipped more than 6,000 DRX detectors since launching the CARESTREAM DRX-1, a revolutionary wireless X-ray detector used in surgical suites, ER/ICU and radiology departments - as well as clinics, imaging centres, nursing homes and field military hospitals. The DRX-1 detector delivers high-quality, affordable digital X-ray images in about four seconds.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/carestream/3477-carestream-ships-more-than-6000-wireless-dr-detectors
Frog-Like Robot will Help SurgeonsResearchers at the University of Leeds are using the feet of tree frogs as a model for a tiny robot designed to crawl inside patients' bodies during keyhole surgery. The tiny device is one of a growing stable of bio-inspired robots being built in the University's School of Mechanical Engineering and featured on the BBC's The One Show.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/development/3476-frog-like-robot-will-help-surgeons
eHealth Interoperability Framework Study (Publication)The study on the eHealth Interoperability Framework, financed by the European Commission and conducted by Deloitte Consulting, has been finalised. The study defines a vision of an EU eHealth Interoperability Framework with four levels: technical, semantic, organisational and legal. It also assesses some technical specifications from the epSOS interoperability framework and from two consortia, IHE and Continua Health Alliance, against the identification criteria of the annex II of the Regulation on European Standardization.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/download/publications/3474-ehealth-interoperability-framework-study
Region Southern Denmark Launches an International Congress on Future Innovation in Healthcare30 September - 1 October 2013, Odense, Denmark.
Denmark will over the next ten years, spend € 5.5 billion on the construction of eight new super hospitals, including the new Odense University Hospital (OUH). Region Southern Denmark is therefore inviting international stakeholders from the public and private sector to meet and discuss how to ensure sustainable future health care solutions through innovative private and public partnerships.
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/events/3473-region-southern-denmark-launches-an-international-congress-on-future-innovation-in-healthcare
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