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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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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Telehealth 2007 in Brussels next week
The European Commission Information Society & Media Directorate General hosts its annual telehealth conference in Brussels on Tuesday, 11 December. Organisers told E-Health Europe: “The Conference aims to identify barriers to broad telemedicine development and concrete actions for the European Union institutions, member states, regions, industries, user organisations and other stakeholders in view of the […]
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Car emergency call system gathers pace
A European Commission proposed system, aiming to provide cars in Europe with a direct contact to the emergency services, is gathering momentum after three more countries agreed to take part in the scheme. eCall is a pan-European in vehicle emergency call system which uses the European emergency number 112 in the event of an accident. […]
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EC creates Internet health threat surveillance
The European Commisssion has launched MediSys, a web-based news outlet providing information on public health threats in European health authorities. MediSys, has been created to provide EC health providers with real time information about disease outbreaks, industrial accidents, and major incidents that could pose a national health threat. It is also available to the public. The […]
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Picis expands presence in Europe
Picis, a providers of acute information systems, has announced a further five deals in Europe in the first quarter of this year. The company have been working in Europe for almost 15 years now and now has their systems used by more than 1000 hospitals in 19 European countries. Picis’s executive vice president of global […]
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EC looks to IT to help support older people
The European Commission has unveiled plans for a new €1bn European Action Plan to research the effectiveness of the use of ICT in improving the life of older people at home, in the workplace and in society in general. “Ageing Well in the Information Society” is a new research project, aimed at ensuring that by […]
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RoboBraille translation piloted across Europe
RoboBraille, a Danish Braille and speech translation service, funded by the European Commission, has begun its EU market validation tests in six different countries. The RoboBraille project offers a tool that automates the translation of text into Braille and speech. Users submit documents as attachments to e-mails. In return, they receive contracted Braille documents or […]
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EC announces large scale eHealth pilot
The European Commission has begun its tendering process for a large scale pilot of an EU wide implementation of eHealth services to support continuity of care. Speaking at the EC’s ICT Policy Support Programme – Work Programme 2007 launch day in Brussels on 24 May, Dr Gérard Comyn, head of the EC’s ICT for Health […]
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EC looks to mainstream telehealth
Members of the European Commission have said that they intend to set up an action plan to deal with the challenges of an ageing population and make telehealth more mainstream. Speaking at the London Telehealth Symposium earlier this year, three EC civil servants told the audience that the eHealth industry, had been allocated funds by […]
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