Updated: 25 Feb 2008
6th Framework Programme NEWS

	"MyHeart" Project: access to its public Documents The MyHeart consortium consists of a broad range of 34 partners from 11 countries. It is a common research effort of industry, research institutes, academic and medical hospitals, covering the whole value chain from from textile research, via fashion and electronics design, towards medical and home-based applications. A particular reference should be done for 2 of the Project Workpackages: - WP 2: Functional Clothes : The work package “functional clothes” researches and develops innovative textile garment solutions and new textile sensors for long-term monitoring. Functional clothes together with integrated electronics are considered as intelligent clothes indicating that novel sensors and electronics with intelligent algorithms are integrated into the garments, allowing monitoring and evaluating the health status of a person and reacting on it. This work package will act as supplier for each application area within WP1(e.g.: cardiosafe, cardioactive…) responding to not only technological requirements in terms of conductive fabric and fiber input, design and development, but also garment design, garment user interface and hard to soft interconnect. - WP 3: On-body Electronics :  On-body electronics researches and develops innovative electronics that can be integrated into functional textiles. Related Project Sites: IST Wealthy project www.wealthy-ist.com These 2 WP's aim at preparing research findings wich could enable a next launching of a much more ambitious and complex Project, under the next 7th FWP.  Public Deliverables: http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/myheart/resultspubs.html
	eHealth ERA Project Successfully Completed December 2007 http://www.ehealth-era.org Funded by the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, eHealth ERA investigated and analysed eHealth priorities and deployment activities in European countries. The project developed a database of key national eHealth policy documents, a database of key national contact points for eHealth research and technology development, and it produced several extended reports about current eHealth issues.The overall goal of the eHealth ERA project is to support Member State innovation-oriented eHealth RTD, identify opportunities for multilateral joint activities, and take steps towards further integration of eHealth deployment and implementation across countries. Towards this end, the project results will contribute to greater transparency across Member States with regard to eHealth strategies, RTD policies, and the current state of eHealth implementation, identification and analysis of priority deployment goals and RTD needs, exchange of experience in developing and managing eHealth strategies and programmes, preparation of sustainable mechanisms for trans-national cooperation between Member States for mutual benefit . All the Project Deliverables are now available online at http://www.ehealth-era.org/publications/publications.htm , and also include the following documents:  D2.2, The European eHealth policy and deployment situation by the end of 2006 D2.3, Report on Priority Topic Cluster one: Patient Summaries D2.5, Report on Priority Topic Cluster two: Patient Empowerment D2.6, SWOT analysis of Patient Empowerment and Patient Summary activities in Europe D3.1, Report on national eHealth RTD programmes, approaches and institutions D5.3, Final Project Report. (more....)
	NETC@RDS: new service points Date: 30 October 2007 The initial deployment phase of the NETC@RDS project is aimed at achieving the widest implementation of an online service for the electronic European Health Insurance Card (eEHIC). The existing service, already successfully tested in 85 pilots across 10 EU Member States, will be progressively extended to enable "non-planned" health care access for European mobile citizens who provide evidence of their enrolment in the national insurance schema. New service points at Hopital Saint-Roch in Nice (France) and in the Loerrach area (Germany, French/Swiss border), involving 5 ambulatories care and 2 hospitals, have been recently inaugurated.   Visit the Project Web Site
	eHealth Project of the Month - CLINICIP (ICU's Intelligent Glucose Monitoring) Monday, 10 September 2007 Thousands of patients in European intensive care units (ICUs) develop high glucose levels that need to be treated with insulin. Many ICUs cannot easily control the glucose level and as a result, these patients have a much higher risk to die or to develop complications. Within the EC funded project CLINICIP, a system that will help ICU staff to implement glucose control has been developed. The system is presently being clinically approved and is expected to be soon released to the market. Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) can develop high glucose levels. Shock and trauma because of surgical procedures are the major causes for these atypical physiological symptoms which are comparable to those of diabetes mellitus. A number of clinical studies indicated that normalisation of high glucose levels with insulin dramatically improves the survival chances in these ICU patients. (Read more...)
	SYMBIOmatics – @Health Project of the month May 2007 Synergies in Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics Read the Text on the Project of month Project site: www.symbiomatics.org
	MobilAlarm on the Market as of May 2007 (eTEN) As of May 2007, the mobile emergency device that was tested in the international project MobilAlarm will be marketed. Initially, the device will be offered in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, and Andalucia (Es). MobilAlarm, a project co-funded under the eTEN programme, tested an innovative alarm service for older, chronically ill and disabled people and for all those concerned about their safety while outside. The service enables them to initiate an alarm call whenever and wherever they need to do so. After its successful completion in August 2005, activities carried on to launch the service in the market. Though elderly people and those suffering from chronic disease are the core market for the system, the MobilAlarm partners also see potential for it to be used by disabled but otherwise healthy people and possibly by victims of domestic violence or people carrying out hazardous jobs in remote locations.  Initially, the device will be offered in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, and Andalucia (Es) . In Germany, the Vitaris company , previously named Attendo Systems and main industry partner in the MobilAlarm project, offers the device as "Vitaris Mobile".  Thus, MobilAlarm is an example of how the European Commission can help innovative product and service ideas to the market. Related Information:   MobiAlarm project website
	@neurIST first year's results Date: 15 March 2007 @neurIST will transform the management of cerebral aneurysm by providing new insight, personalised risk assessment and methods for the design of improved medical devices and treatment protocols. The release of a @neuRisk prototype served to start the discussions between epidemiological experts and developers, for a better understanding of the model, how it may be extended and what features are missing. @neuRisk prototype also demonstrated a visual way of representing a personalized risk benefit analysis and more complex models may become easier to understand both for the clinician and the patient. The understanding on how the ontology developed for @neurIST and text mining results serves as input for assessment of associations between these factors and the presence of an aneurysm, or its rupture. Read the Project 1st Year Results (pdf. file)

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