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…
Expert Panel to complete Delphi process on criteria to assess organisational interventions focused on dealing with chronic patients with multiple conditions (multimorbidity) A panel of 14 experts including a representative of EHFF was convened at the CSISC office, Brussels by the Institute for Health Sciences in Aragon as lead of the Chronic Disease Joint Action…
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…
Earlier this year we got in touch with the organization of the biggest fair venue in the Netherlands (Jaarbeurs, Utrecht). They were charmed by the EVY network concept and promised to look out for opportunities for us to join care conferences and/or other meetings and were also willing to offer us venue space for future…
R.I.P As of Monday 5th October 2015, this valued organisation ceased to exist. It went into insolvency a month previously, as the parent organisation TNO, who has owned it since 2010 decided that it was no longer a going financial concern, based on the lack of sufficient assignments following a period of extensive cost-cutting. Its…
The 2015 Bad Gastein Forum gathered about 500 participants including politicians, patients, pharmaceutical industry, health professionals and other health community players. The motto of the Forum – ‘Securing Health in Europe. Balancing priorities, sharing responsibilities’ – set the tone of plenary sessions. The idea of Health in All Policies (HIAP) was once again debated with…
Charles Lowe, former chair of the Royal Society of Medicine, London Telemedicine section is the founder of the Digital Health and Care Alliance. This originated as one of the DALLAS (Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale) projects, i-Focus funded by the UK NHS and Innovate UK. InfoLab21: Venue for DHACA Day VI It was…
SATT Ile-de-France Innov is a private Technology Transfer organisation ‘with exclusive rights to detect, seed-fund and commercialise technology stemming from academic research centres across the Paris metropolitan area’ (www.idfinnov.com) It is one of 14 SATTs (Sociétés d’Accélération du Transfert de Technologies) created by the French Government and invests over 6M€ per…
Led by Prof. Helmut Brand’s INTHEALTH group at Maastricht University and the WHO Observatory (represented here by Willy Palm), this project is a tender: CHAFEA/2014/Health/03. Base on a discussion paper which considered the preliminary findings of the study, and framed round a series of presentations, on patient rights law, enforcement systems, Council of Europe activities…
NHS Innovation Expo has been an annual event since 2009. This year, on Sept. 2 and 3 around 5000 people a day from health and care, the voluntary sector, local government, and industry joined together at Manchester Central Convention Centre for two packed days of speakers, workshops, exhibitions and professional development. In 2015, almost 12…