EMPATTICS project contract signed

EHFF is a small partner in a Consortium led by SERGAS of Galicia region that has successfully bid for a Horizon 2020 three year grant on pre commercial procurement entitled ‘Self-management of health and disease and patient empowerment supported by ICT’. The EHFF group, which has as a major player Rosa Sunol’s group from Barcelona,…

IROHLA closing conference Brussels Nov.17

Funded by FP7, the IROHLA project describes itself as follows ‘IROHLA is a project that focused on improving health literacy for older people in Europe. It took stock of on-going health literacy programmes and projects and identified and validated a set of 20 interventions, which together constitute a comprehensive approach for addressing the health literacy needs of the ageing…

Invited Keynote in Malmo

On Oct. 21 David Somekh gave an invited keynote presentation at a seminar on integrated care convened by the Region of Skane in southern Sweden at their office in Malmo. The event represented a coming together of four European regions, Wales, Scotland, Flanders and Skane, to share expertise on integrated care and to consider what…