Reports and Studies about Innovative healthcare

Training in digital knowledge and skills should become a new core component of training for future and current doctors in all Member States: this was agreed by representatives of students/junior doctors and deans, gathered at the initiative of the European Commission and Erasmus University Medical Center on 12 April in Rotterdam. A set of recommendations for action were developed at this meeting, and participants committed themselves to taking them forward in their own national context to raise policy makers’ awareness.

There are many stereotypes and preconceptions about artificial intelligence, fuelled in no small part by science fiction books and films. But in reality AI should be considered as a tool, albeit a highly sophisticated one that is constantly evolving and improving as our human intelligence deepens. As the EU launches its coordinated plan on artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of this key technology for the benefit of all, we take a look at how AI is in fact already very much a part of our day-to-day lives.

The tutorial, conducted by a team of French professors from University of Toulouse, enabled technology developers and students to build standards compliant applications for Internet of Things and provide interoperability and other key benefits of standardisation. The first round of the hackathon received more than 200 team applications from all over India. 20 teams were selected for participation, representing India's young talent with bright ideas to solve challenges of urban life. The event was organised by the India EU ICT Standards Collaboration Project.

On 15 October a high-level roundtable discussion on the agenda for action set out by the Commission's recently adopted Communication on the "Enabling the Digital Transformation of Health and Care the Digital Single Market" took place in Brussels. Its core objective was to exchange views on the vision for the future with regard to a fully digitally transformed health and care in the EU.

This webinar, organised by DG Connect, took place on 25 January. It was meant for all those interested in funding for health research, big data, cloud and High Performance Computing (HPC). The presentation slides and recording are now available.

eStandards presented its Roadmap for collaborative and sustainable development of standards at its Final Conference on 26 -27 June 2017 in Brussels

ENISA has published a study that sets the scene on information security for the adoption of Internet of Things in Hospitals. The study which engaged information security officers from more than ten hospitals across the EU, depicts the smart hospital ICT ecosystem. Through a risk based approach it focuses on relevant threats and vulnerabilities, analyses attack scenarios, and maps common good practices.

The new H2020 Robotics projects and their contribution to the SPARC strategy were presented at the European Robotics Forum.