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July 17, 2017

EHEALTH, WELLBEING & AGEING NEWSLETTER – July 2017

This is the newsletter of the European Commission’s eHealth, Wellbeing and Ageing team. It is hosted by the Digital Agenda for Europe Newsroom. In this issue, June 2017: Top News, Policy, Research & Innovation, Calls, Events

Attitudes towards the impact of digitisation and automation on daily life

The European Commission has published a Eurobarometer survey presenting European citizens’ opinions on the impact of digitisation and automation on daily life. European citizens see digitisation and automation primarily as an opportunity but call for investment for better and faster internet services as well as effective public policy to accompany changes, in particular in areas such as employment, privacy and personal health. The results also show that the more people are informed or use technologies the more they are likely to have a positive opinion on them and to trust them.

eHealth Week 2017: ‘52% of EU citizens want online access to their health records’

Around 1,000 eHealth enthusiasts from across Europe gathered in Malta to exchange knowledge and share best practices as part of the annual eHealth Week. This year’s European digital health event saw inspiring keynote speakers, many winners and a voting poll on sharing health data, the theme of the conference. Photos and presentations of eHealth Week are now available.

POLICY

Digital Single Market in practice: Digital care for elderly people in Puglia

In May 2015, the European Commission presented a strategy to create a Digital Single Market where people and businesses can make the most of what digitalisation offers. This includes EU actions to support innovation for active and healthy ageing. The South-Italian region of Puglia is a good example of how people in remote regions can benefit from EU support in this field.

The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition in a nutshell

The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition mobilises companies, non-for profit organisations, educational providers, social partners and Member States in Europe who work together to tackle the lack of digital skills in Europe. The aim is to ensure that everyone acquires the digital skills they need to remain productive and employable and included.

RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Launch of the Silver Economy Awards

The Silver Economy Awards is a new initiative to reward ICT-based innovative solutions that improve the lives of European seniors and support the growth of the European Silver Economy. If you offer such a solution and you represent a public authority, non-for-profit or for profit organisation, you can apply from 8 June until 15 November 2017.

Patients with chronic cardiorenal disease can now better manage their health

The CARRE project investigated digital technologies for empowering patients with comorbidities and cardio-renal syndrome, by providing personalised health risk information to patients and health practitioners with the help of mobile devices.

3D X-ray imaging at very low dose

The goal of the FET-Open project Voxel is to develop a ground-breaking 3D X-ray technology which will not only reduce the adverse effects of classical x-ray technology but also increase image quality.

Understanding how the retina encodes information with the RENVISION project

Understanding how the retina encodes visual information, compressing rich visual scenes into spikes trains in retinal ganglion cells, the cells that form the sole output from the retina to the brain, remains a challenging question both for biologists and computer scientists. Moreover, understanding how retinal networks encode visual information is essential to develop biologically inspired algorithms for computer vision tasks. Gaining knowledge on these biological processes may also be exploited for artificial vision and prosthetics.

CALLS

Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom: €25.5 million to support trans-European digital networks

The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) and the European Commission launched on 6 May the second Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom call for 2017. The call makes €25.5 million available to stimulate and support the deployment of European Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs).

eHealth Hub project: Call for SMEs to implement solutions on nutrition and smoking cessation

By using the Solution Match service of the European eHealth Hub project, insurance specialist AXA is looking for digital health SMEs to partner up with. Goal: Implementing one or more digital solution(s) to help people live healthier. Apply before 26 May.

EVENTS

23 May 2017

Webinar on digital skills of health and care professionals

This webinar, live web-streamed from the 43rd Finnish Healthcare ICT Conference, features the newly launched EU*US eHealth Work project. Key questions that will be covered: What are the next steps to improve the digital skills of all people working in healthcare to make better use of technology and health information systems? What has been done so far?

See also :	Communication on Building a European Data Economy
Contact :	European Commission

6 – 7 June 2017 — Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Future Healthcare Week 2017

The innovative healthcare forum ‘Future Healthcare Week’ explores how the latest wave of digital technology can better improve healthcare institutions and the outcomes for patients across Europe. The event will feature over 40 conference speakers and training workshops.

21 June 2017 — Palais des Académies, Rue Ducale 1, 1000, Bruxelles (Belgium)

TRACK conference: Empowerment of informal carers through training, skills recognition and certification

At this event you can discover the innovative training programme designed by the EU-funded TRACK project for informal carers who are caring for a person affected by dementia. Other topics: certification as a tool for recognising informal carers’ skills, the use of digital solutions to offer new learning opportunities, and training for informal carers at EU, national and local level.

26 – 27 June 2017 — Avenue Marnix 17, 1000, Bruxelles (Belgium)

eStandards conference on eHealth standards and interoperability

The European eStandards project is organising its two-day final event: ‘Standards and profiles in action for large-scale eHealth deployment in Europe and beyond’.

28 – 29 June 2017 — Brussels, Belgium

Net Futures 2017 conference

Net Futures 2017 conference is a networking event where policy makers and technologists will meet to have deep-dive conversations and learn about each other’s wishes and needs for tomorrow’s internet, the economy and society

10 – 15 July 2017 — Desio, Italy

Three IITM digital health events

The International Institute of TeleMedicine (IITM) is organising three scientific events on eHealth taking place in Italy in July 2017. Deadline call for papers: 31 May 2017.

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