Personal Health Systems
Trajkovik V et al, Health and Technology, 2012
Adoption of mobile devices and technology in the field of medical monitoring and personal health care systems is very important nowadays, especially when it comes to certain categories of people with chronicle diseases who need 24 hour access to medical care. The collaborative Information system model we present in this paper, gives a new dimension in the usage of novel technologies in healthcare. Using mobile, web and broadband technologies enable the citizens to have ubiquity of support services where ever they may be.
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6 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Algorithms, Classification, mHealth, Personal Health Systems, social-network
Cristiano Codagnone, Ioannis Maghiros, David Broster, Francisco Lupiañez, Maria Lluch, JRC
“This report contains the main findings of the scoping and exploratory research carried out in the course of 2010 by the SIMPHS research team (part of the TIESC Action within the Information Society Unit at IPTS1) on the broadly defined issue of assessing the micro and macro impact of Integrated Personal Health and Social Care Services (IPHS, see infra § 1.1 for the definition). SIMPHS, which stands for Strategic Intelligence Monitor of Personal Health Systems, is a three-year project collaboration between IPTS and Unit H1 (ICT for Health) of the European Commission’s Directorate General Information Society.
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4 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Chronic Diseases, Chronic Heart Failure, COPD, Diabetes, Personal Health Systems, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Riva G et al, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 - NextMed, 2011
Since the European funded project VREPAR–Virtual Reality in Neuro-Psycho-Physiology (1995)–different European research activities have been using virtual reality and advanced information and communication technologies to improve the quality of care in the treatment of many different mental health disorders including anxiety disorders, eating disorders and obesity. Now the European Commission funding is shifting from the traditional hospital-centred and reactive healthcare delivery model toward a person-centred and preventive one.
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22 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Mental Health, Patient Centric, Personal Health Systems, Preventive Care, Virtual Reality
eHealthNews.eu
“Failure to address interoperability has been identified as a major challenge for the growing personal health solutions market, states the conclusions of the SmartPersonalHealth project report published today. The report, “Enabling smart integrated care: Recommendations for fostering greater interoperability of personal health systems” contains recommendations for the advancement towards an interoperable personal health ecosystem.
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27 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Interoperability, Personal Health Systems
HealthTech Wire
“The European Commission continues to rank eHealth highly on its ICT agenda. Zoran Stancic, Deputy Director General of the European Commission’s DG INFSO, outlined the Commission’s current and future eHealth priorities during the opening session of the “Semana E-Health 2010” conference in Barcelona.
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16 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): e-Health, Personal Health Systems, Research
Earth Times
“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.
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2 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Industry, Interoperability, Personal Health Systems, Standards
eHealthServer
“A plethora of devices and applications, some converging from the consumer electronics world, are coming onto the market and are being recommended by doctors and health insurers to help us all monitor our health and wellness. These tools, called “personal health systems” (PHS), are a key element of the growth of eHealth in Europe. Their full benefit can only be realised if they are interoperable – that is, if a device from one vendor works easily and seamlessly with other eHealth applications.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Devices, e-Health, Interoperability, Personal Health Systems
Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“The European Commission has selected Continua for inclusion in its Smart Personal Healthcare research initiative.
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28 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Industry, Interoperability, Personal Health Systems
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“The European Union (EU) is struggling with many of the same healthcare issues as the US, aging population, ever increasing costs of care and the need to move to new modalities of care. This is one of the key take-aways from a recent EU-sponsored report: Reconstructing the Whole: Present and Future of Personal Health Systems.
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26 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Health Information Technology, Implementation, Interoperability, Personal Health Systems, phr
Cristiano Codagnone, PHS2020
“The book envisages the research themes needed to be funded and pursued in the future in order to infuse PHS with bio-medical knowledge, produce more intelligent data processing in support of decision making and actuation
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26 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Report, Science | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Decision Making, Health Information Technology, Implementation, Interoperability, Personal Health Systems, Point of Care, Prevention, Sensors
