The European Patient Forum (EPF) campaign for patient empowerment ended on June 22nd. The closing ceremony took place at the European Parliament and the EPF delivered some strong political messages. The Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis pledged to “continue to promote the necessary shift from organisation-centred to patient-centred…
BBMRI- LPC (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure – Large Prospective Cohorts) is one of the largest biobanking networks in Europe aiming to facilitate scientists’ access to large prospective study sets on human health and disease. The 2016 BBMRI – LPC Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) Call is offering a unique opportunity to genetically…
The Personalised Medicine Conference’s presentations and videos are available here, including sessions about: Developing awareness and empowerment, Integrating Big Data and ICT Solutions, Translating Basic to Clinical Research and Beyond, Bringing Innovation to the Market, Shaping Sustainable Healthcare
The European “eHealth week”, co-organised by the European Commission took place in Amsterdam, between June, 8-10th. All news and updates are available here
The European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products (Edimbourg, 27-29th May 2016) presentations and videos are available here
The European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, has announced on Friday 17th his new initiative “state of health of the EU” gathers experts together in order to stengthen country-specific as well as EU-wide knowledge with regard to health. Factsheet on State of Health in the EU More info…
The Tender for the ERN IT Platform, “a Scalable software as a service (SaaS) for a clinical patient management system to support European reference networks” – was launched on Friday, 17th. The procurement documents are available here. This competitive dialogue is designed to provide the contracting authority with a clinical patient…
Our European Reference Network project proposal on Rare Multistemic Vascular Diseases (VASCern) has been submitted on June, 21st, together with the 31 Healthcare Providers (HCPs) Membership Applications to answer the European Commission ERN and Framework Partnership Agreement Call for proposals 2016. Stay tuned to follow the updates on the various…
The ERN 2016 call deadline is approaching (June, 21st) ! Most of our HCPs Members Applicants have finalised their application and got their letters of national endorsement from their governments, the last ones are expected in the upcoming days. Our Network proposals are also being finalised! More information will be uploaded…
The European Commission has published a leaflet on European eHealth policy available here. ERNs will promote innovative clinical solutions (telemedicine), ideas and new possibilities in medical research with potentially far-reaching benefits for patients. More information on our Network plans on eHealth here
