Momentum builds on telemedicine
The head of the European Commission’s ICT for Health unit says there is growing momentum behind telemedicine across the continent. Speaking to E-Health Europe on the first day of the eHealth 2009 conference in Prague, Dr Gérard Comyn said that the Commission was working on a call for proposals for large scale telemedicine projects. In […]
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Commission not ‘Easter bunny’ on research
A meeting on benchmarking e-health developments has called for greater funding of large scale European e-health studies into use of e-health and its acceptance. The call came at an e-health benchmarking workshop held on Wednesday, run ahead of the opening of the e-Health 2009 ministerial conference in Prague. But the European Commission made clear that […]
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Europe to double e-health research
Viviane Reding today announced that the European Commission will double funding for e-health research over the next two years. The European Commissioner for Information Society and Media said that over the next two years the Commission will invest €163m in e-health research. The funding will be channelled through its framework seven funding call. Speaking by […]
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eHealth 2009 gets underway in Prague
Wales to build Centre for NanoHealth
Wales is to become home to what is thought to be Europe’s first centre for NanoHealth, to be built at Swansea University.
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EHI interview: Peter Neupert
Microsoft’s vice president for health strategy, recently spoke to the US Senate’s HELP committee. Last week, he spoke to EHI editor Jon Hoeksma.
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GPS patient tracking launched in Switzerland
Aerotel Medical Systems, a specialist in mobile and home-based telemedicine and telecare solutions, has partnered with GEBOA SA, to launch Aerotel’s GeoSKeeper GPS personal location system in Switzerland.
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Call for co-ordination on ID card security
ENISA has published a position paper highlighting problems with current and planned European electronic ID card schemes.
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Commission invests €1bn in high-speed broadband
The European Commission has proposed a new €5 billion investment in energy and internet broadband infrastructure in 2009-2010.
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Philips cuts 6,000 jobs
Dutch consumer electronic and health technology giant Royal Dutch Philips has reported a fourth quarter loss of €1.47bn (£1.4bn) and will cut 6,000 jobs. The global financial crisis put substantial pressure on the results of nearly all of Philips’ divisions. The exception was the Health Care division, which reported a 9% growth in sales to […]
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