Jul 1

Watch Eventcast & Interviews from Digital Health and Care Learning Network Day 24 June 2019, Glasgow

The annual Scottish Government Technology Enabled Care Division’s Digital Health & Care Learning Network day, in collaboration with the National Digital Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) Network, took place on 24 June 2019 in Glasgow.  The Learning Network day is an opportunity for staff with a shared interest in how digital tools can be used to support …

by Heather Smith
May 14

Counterfeit drugs and similar crimes – comic book

Communication of medical topics to the public, especially to children is a challenge and needs innovative approaches. New ECHAlliance member from the Serbian Ecosystem, ALIMS, (The Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Serbia), in collaboration with AIFA and EDQM have published a ‘comic book’ aimed at raising awareness of the dangers from counterfeit medical products …

by Matt Grek
May 14

One week, Three Ecosystems

A bumper week of Ecosystems took place from 6 to 10 May 2019 with three separate ecosystems meeting in Spain, Romania and Northern Ireland. Starting in Galicia with the Galician Health Ecosystem hosted by the Galician Health Cluster and then on Thursday 9 May, Europe Day, we had the very first meeting of our Transylvania …

by Matt Grek
May 14

Highlights of the May meeting of the Northern Ireland Connected Health Ecosystem

The most recent Northern Ireland Connected Health Ecosystem (NICHECO) was held at Ulster University, Derry City, on Thursday 9 May. the theme of which was ‘Supporting Active Ageing through wearables and devices’ and the gathering was hosted by the Smart sENsor Devices fOr rehabilitation and Connected health (SENDoc). The audience heard updates from: The Department …

by Matt Grek
May 14

Highlights of the May meeting of the Transylvania Digital Health Ecosystem by FreshBlood

Our first ever Transylvania Digital Health Ecosystem by FreshBlood took place in Romania on 9 May and was organised in partnership with Fresh Blood in Cluj Napoca. The event focussed on the theme of “Driving better healthcare through multi-sector stakeholder collaboration: the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance) experience” A wider range of sessions were covered …

by Matt Grek
May 10

Funding Opportunities for May 2019

Andy Bleaden, Director Ecosystem Development for ECHAlliance, comments:  We publish these here in our newsletter and online a month after we sent them directly to our members earlier in April. Many of those opportunities have deadlines which have now passed but you may still be interested in these last few that are still open from …

by Matt Grek
May 9

Dialogue meeting: Video consultations and video visits in social care and healthcare

On 26th of April 2019 Welfare Tech gathered 100 representatives from the Danish Ecosystem and discussed the scaled deployment of video consultations and video visits in social care and healthcare.

by Matt Grek
May 6

Hear what Gisela Garcia-Alvarez of the Galician Health Ecosystem says about ECHAlliance

We recently caught up with Gisela Garcia-Alvarez of the Galician Health Ecosystem who gave us an update on what she thinks about ECHAlliance!

by Matt Grek
May 1

Submission form – 2019 EU Health Award

for cities, NGOs and schools Preventing and reducing obesity in children and young people. The European Commission dedicates this year’s EU Health Award to initiatives of cities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and schools that contributed or are contributing to a higher level of public health in the European Union through preventing and reducing obesity in children …

by Matt Grek
Apr 22

European Commission publishes 2017 MEMBER STATE DATA on cross-border patient healthcare

Directive 2011/24/EU codifies patients’ rights to reimbursement for healthcare received in another EU Member State (MS) and obliges MS to provide information about access to such care through their National Contact Points. In order to assess the impact of the Directive, questionnaires have been sent to all MS in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 to …

by Matt Grek
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