Heather Smith

EU budget: Commission proposes a modern budget for a Union that protects, empowers and defends

Brussels, 2 May 2018 The Commission is today proposing a pragmatic, modern, long-term budget for the 2021-2027 period. It is an honest response to today’s reality in which Europe is expected to play a greater role in providing security and stability in an unstable world, at a time when Brexit will leave a sizeable gap

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Castlight Releases First-of-Its-Kind Report on Digital Health in the Workplace

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Castlight Health, Inc. (NYSE: CSLT), a leading health benefits platform provider, today released its State of Digital Health: 2018 Annual Report, a comprehensive survey on how employers and employees interact with health and wellness programs, including digital therapeutics, telemedicine, and other apps, tools, and services. To complete the first-of-its-kind report, Castlight

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Thousands of successful European innovations at one place

Explore the Innovation Radar and discover what groundbreaking results the EUbudget helped to deliver https://www.innoradar.eu This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No GA727816. Twitter Linkedin © Copyright 2018 PULSE project – All Rights Reserved

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Why Apps for Managing Chronic Disease Haven’t Been Widely Used, and How to Fix It

In an era where nearly every consumer good and service — from books and groceries to babysitting and shared rides — can be purchased through an electronic transaction on a mobile device, it seems reasonable to think that more and more of our health care can also be managed using apps on mobile devices. Proponents of these apps

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First steps towards the transformation of public health

The PULSE project kick off meeting took place on 28 to 29 November 2016 in Madrid (Spain), hosted by the coordinator, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Representative partners from the all consortium members met each other for the first time and started organising for months to follow. PULSE is an innovative project aiming to engage in

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Data in the EU: Commission steps up efforts to increase availability and boost healthcare data sharing

The European Commission is putting forward a set of measures to increase the availability of data in the EU, building on previous initiatives to boost the free flow of non-personal data in the Digital Single Market. Data-driven innovation is a key enabler of market growth, job creation, particularly for SMEs and startups, and the development

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Innovation capacity in U.S. city halls: findings from the Bloomberg Mayors Survey

This article was produced by Bloomberg Cities on Medium.com. Read the article in full.  “Political dysfunction and gridlock might be the only common denominators on Capitol Hill these days. But real progress is taking shape beyond the Beltway, where city leaders are surmounting formidable obstacles to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing their residents today.

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