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SMARTSPACES Milestone: Operation Start on 1 November 2013

1 November 2013 was set to be a milestone in the SMARTSPACES project: Operation started officially in 11 pilot sites. The SMARTSPACES project was launched on 1 January 2012. The …

General, Green Economy & Smart Energy
eSESH – Saving Energy in Social Housing with ICT project successfully completed

In February 2013, the eSESH – Saving Energy in Social Housing with ICT project was successfully completed. The eSESH project started in March 2010 and aimed at helping Europe to …

General, Society & Inclusion
Study on e-accessibility published by the European Commission

The European Commission has now published the results and conclusions from an empirica led cross-country study on e-accessibility. The main aims of this research were to take stock of the …

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General
VPH-DARE@IT website goes online

The “Virtual Physiological Human: DementiA Research Enabled by IT” (VPH-DARE@IT) project website has been launched and is accessible at www.vph-dare.eu Besides detailed information on VPH-DARE@IT RTD activities such as multiscale …

Digital Health, General
MD-Paedigree (Model-Driven Paediatric European Digital Repository) wins ICT2013 Best Exhibit Award

MD-Paedigree, a clinically-driven, VPH-rooted project in which empirica is key project partner, was awarded the Best Exhibit Award at the ICT2013 conference. Over 200 exhibitors and 5500 participants from all …

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General
Patient’s can be treated more efficiently with HeartCycle

The socio-economic impact assessment based on a multi-centre clinical trial showed that patient’s can be treated more effectively as well as more efficiently with HeartCycle, are third generation telehealth system. …

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General
Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry from empirica project partner network

empirica congratulates Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel on winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2013, for their work on “the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems“. …

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General
Enabling Europe-wide semantic interoperability: building a European Virtual Organisation- results from an expert workshop

Achieving semantic interoperability (SIOP) of electronic health information is a key ambition of projects funded by the European Commission. A recent business modeling workshop has analyzed how a European Virtual …

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General
Study states added value of Swiss electronic patient record

A planned electronic patient record in Switzerland would aid the general population and especially the chronically ill. This is the most important message of a recently finished regulatory impact analysis …

General, Skills & Future of Work
The European Commission project on ‘e-Skills for Competitiveness and Innovation: Vision, Roadmap and Foresight Scenarios’ was launched

The European Commission project on ‘e-Skills for Competitiveness and Innovation: Vision, Roadmap and Foresight Scenarios’ launched by the Directorate General Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission and contracted to …

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General
Study: empirica among top 20 EU personal health system RTD organisations

[Bonn/Brussels, 11 April 2013] empirica is among the top 20 most connected organisations involved in the EU’s RTD activities around personal health systems. This is the finding of a study …

General, Skills & Future of Work
The project ‘Towards European e-Skills Quality Labels for ICT Industry Training and Certifications’ has been completed

The project ‘Towards European e-Skills Quality Labels for ICT Industry Training and Certifications’ for the European Commission has been completed very successfully with a closing conference attended by more than …