“Continua Health Alliance, an international organization of leading health care and technology companies, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), responsible for standardization of ICT within Europe, and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Europe (IHE-Europe) today announced receipt of funding from the European Commission (EC) for a 12-month project called Smart Personal Health. Smart Personal Health aims to promote awareness and a deeper understanding of the need for interoperability among personal health systems (PHS), devices and other eHealth systems across Europe. Continua, ETSI and IHE-Europe are joined by project partners empirica, a European research institute with a broad understanding of political, business and socio-economic issues surrounding electronic health services and telecom applications, as well as The Centre, a European expert in public affairs and event organization.”
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Earth Times, 1 March 2010
