European Commission’s eHealth research unit has released a short video that show how research aims to improve the exchange of information between patients and health care professionals as well as between health care professionals.
New EU eHealth video-Brochure - How do ICTs improve health care
6 March, 2008
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Developing successful business cases for TeleHealth
23 February, 2008Friday 30 May 2008
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
Organised by the Telemed and eHealth Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine, this half-day workshop will support healthcare commissioners, public and private service developers, physicians and other healthcare providers as well as telehealth equipment vendors in developing successful business cases for sustainable telehealth services, and in better understanding the requirements and constrains of other actors involved in the healthcare value system.
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Invisible (Caring) People
15 February, 2008Urban historian Joe Kerr presents a series about the control centres of our networked society. In this programme (14 February 2008), he visits a small office near Edinburgh where telephone operators keep a 24-hour watch on elderly and vulnerable people through state-of-the-art technology More here…
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Ambient Assisted Living - EU Congress - Berlin
1 February, 2008
The Ambient Assisted Living EU Congress took place today in Berlin. Among the speakers were Dr Gerhard Finking, Head of Department at the German Ministry for Education and Research
and Dr Paul Timmers, Head of Unit - ICT for Inclusion, European Commission
Wolfgang Gessner, the Head of Department Innovation Europe from VDI/VDE-IT explained the rationale behind AALIANCE while Michael Huch also from VDI/VDE-IT did a great job in managing all of the speakers, including me! My slides are here:
The key issues discussed across the Congress were:
- How to integrate users;
- Key requirements to validate technology and service innovations;
- Creating products and services for the market; and
- What kind of business models and concepts are now required
Over 200 people attended the event. And of course, the COGKNOW project was presented by Dr.ir. Ferial Moelaert El-Hadidy, Telematica Institute, The Netherlands.
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New Study on Internet Browsing Habits of Older People
29 January, 2008
‘Studying the silver surfers’ By Paul Blunden, Foviance
Businesses could be missing out on a large and growing market opportunity because they don’t understand how the over-60s use the internet. Foviance recently completed research with Sheena Dosaj of City University London , and found that although there are differences in how older and younger people use the internet, nearly all older people studied considered themselves to be moderate or regular users of the internet (95% of over-60s). Read More…
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New Toolkit on “Strengthening the Involvement of People with Dementia”
24 January, 2008
An Involvement Toolkit along with Supplementary Resource which highlights areas of good practice in involving people with dementia in service planning, delivery and evaluation has been posted on the CSIP Older Peoples Mental Health site. This follows the 2007 publication of the National Audit Office Improving services and support for people with dementia report.
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Northern Ireland Kick-Off for Connected Health - Target set for 5,000 remote monitored
22 January, 2008
In Belfast today, the public and private sector with an interest in an emerging new paradigm combining health and enterprise gathered in the Waterfront Studio to hear the two government departments responsible set out the agenda for Connected Health in Northern Ireland, 2008-2011. Time will tell if the initiative is successful, but it is clear that there is commitment to establish a European Centre for Connected Healthcare, partnering with Continua Healthcare Alliance who hold their Winter Summit in Ireland over the next few days.
At the Belfast event, Health Minister Michael McGimpsey announced additional funding to ramp up telecare services: “Within three years there will be around 5,000 patients in Northern Ireland with chronic disease who will have access to a remote monitoring service for their conditions. This will be one of the largest procurements of this nature in Europe.”
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ICT for Elderly - Best Practice
9 January, 2008
New site to highlight best practises in Europe on ICT enabled independent living for the elderly
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Gartner Hype Cycle for Consumer Technologies
7 January, 2008
Gartner Group has classified major consumer technologies according to their expected maturity cycle. The interest of looking at it, is that it shows what will become familiar to a great number of people and be part of new usages in the households. The latest one (for 2007) is available here.
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Wired article on Lego’s ‘Conversion’
18 December, 2007
Lego built a global empire out of little plastic blocks, then conquered the wired world with a robot kit called Mindstorms. So when the time came for an upgrade, they turned to their obsessed fans - and rewrote the rules of the innovation game.
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