Feb 04, 2015
The 4th of February is World Cancer Day, which, promoted under the tagline "Not beyond us", this year takes a positive and proactive approach to the fight against cancer.
Jan 30, 2015
Mobile Health Global has just launched Showroom, a new section of the website that will showcase some of the mobile health and wellbeing solutions in the market. The products displayed at the showroom will be targeted to consumers, patients, health professionals or organisations, either public or private. The aim is to offer healthcare stakeholders the chance to promote their products to give them visibility globally.
Jan 30, 2015
The 11th of May at the eHealth Week in Riga the EU SME eHealth Competition Final will take place and the 6 winners will be announced. This is the eHealth Competition's fourth year assessing and awarding the best eHealth and mHealth solutions produced by SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) in Europe, and the calls are still open for companies who want to participate.
Jan 23, 2015
The mission of Living it Up (LiU), a digital health care and wellbeing project launched by NHS Scotland, is to promote a healthy lifestyle through the use of new technologies and to improve the way in which local services are delivered digitally. Dubbed "the know how to feel good", this pilot project was launched in 2012 and is now in process of being co-designed before it is finally implemented this year.
Jan 23, 2015
"It could be that they don't have the right attitude, or maybe it's the age, or that they don't want to get involved or that they don't understand it. Whatever it is, the amount of health professionals who have adopted Web 2.0 tools, social media and the like are fewer than should be expected," stated Monica Moro, head of Communications and eBusiness at the pharmaceutical Menarini in Spain. It was one of the first Spanish pharmas to be present in social media and it leads Juntos contra el aislamiento digital ("Together against digital isolation") campaign, also known as #Sherpas20.
Jan 20, 2015
European mHealth stakeholders demand standards, interoperability and reimbursement for their services so that they can move forward with its implementation. This is what can be concluded from the answers to the questions posed by the European Commission, which were recently published in a report.
