Life in Europe to become ambient assisted
Philipp Grätzel reports from Berlin on developments in ambient assisted living, a fast-evolving field combining the IT, medicine, social care and housing industries.
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Building Europe’s e-health market
The European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General ICT for Health team speaks to E-Health Europe about the lead market initiative for e-health.
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EU Parliament amends assisted living project
Members of the European Parliament have stressed that the new Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme must be cost effective and respect privacy. The AAL programme is an initiative by the European Parliament to improve the quality of life of older people and help them live independently for longer, through the use of ICT. It is […]
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EC to hold e-health management workshop
The European Commission is to hold a workshop on e-health management, organised by the ePractice.eu portal – the EC’s web service for the professional community of eGovernment, eInclusion and e-health practitioners. The workshop will be facilitated by e-health experts and will be introduced by a high-level keynote speaker, still to be confirmed. Three different e-health […]
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Gene analysis site launches in Europe
The 23andMe kit now available across Europe A new consumer genetic test website, 23andMe, launched in Europe this week. The service which includes Google among its backers, aims to help individuals understand their own genetic information using DNA analysis and web-based interactive tools. Customers using the £500 service receive a barcoded tube for saliva collection; they then send […]
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EC acts to ease computer-assisted translation
The European Commission has translated a collection of around one million sentences into 22 of the 23 official languages of the European Union, in an initiative designed to promote computer-assisted translation. This, according to the Commission, is the biggest ever collection in so many languages and is now freely available over the internet. Through co-operation […]
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Commission plans to accelerate e-health market
The European Commission has published a new strategy aimed at accelerating the growth of the e-health market in Europe.
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EC may reconsider patient information rules
The European Commission is considering tabling legislation next year that would change the rules on the information that drug companies can provide to patients, according to the British Medical Journal. The expectation is that there will be some relaxation of the rules which strictly control the information that drug companies can offer patients and restrict […]
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EU tables proposals for health single market
The European Commission says EU citizens will be allowed to opt to receive healthcare in any member state, under new proposals due in January that may help create a health single market. The proposals would enable patients across the EU to opt to be treated in any member state, if the treatment is allowed in […]
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Agfa-Gevaert appoints new CEO
Jo Cornu, CEO of Agfa-Gevaert NV The board of directors of Agfa-Gevaert has appointed Jo Cornu as chief executive officer of Agfa-Gevaert NV. Cornu succeeds Ludo Verhoeven, who as executive chairman had temporarily assumed the CEO position at the request of the board of directors. The new CEO has extensive international experience in the area of […]
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