Heather Smith

The European Commission is today proposing to create the first ever Digital Europe programme and invest €9.2 billion to align the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027 with increasing digital challenges. With the Digital Single Market strategy we have established a regulatory framework that is fit for the digital age. This needs to be matched with equally ambitious […]

  The existing gender gap across the tech industry is increasingly seen as an urgent issue that needs to be tackled by the public and private sectors and policy makers. The speed of technologic development that it is taking place and how it affects all aspects of our society and daily life means that technology-based

£1.7m available for up to 23 clinical teams to test and develop innovative ideas and approaches to improve health and social care delivery or the way people manage their own health care in the UK. We are particularly interested in applications that focus on supporting the workforce to improve the quality of care. Each team will

By using big data, the EU-funded BigO project aims to redefine the way policy strategies targeting childhood obesity are designed and deployed in European societies. Childhood and adolescent obesity is a major global and European public health problem. Currently, public actions are detached from local needs, mostly including indiscriminate blanket policies and single-element strategies, limiting

Reporting on the safe use of health information technology (health IT) – especially the use of electronic health records (EHRs) – continues to be a challenge to many healthcare providers. While health IT adoption has increased significantly (as of 2015, 96 percent of hospitals and 78 percent of office-based physicians had certified EHRs), usability and

The opioid epidemic is one of the most profound public health crises facing the United States and the current crisis of opioid overdose deaths requires innovative approaches. The FDA remains committed to addressing this national crisis on all fronts, with a focus on encouraging medical product innovation to prevent new cases of opioid abuse and

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate new patient insights in breast cancer White Paper This report documents the approach and findings of a pilot commissioned by Roche Singapore Pte Ltd. and initiated by IQVIA. The study found that patients with different stages of breast cancer in Singapore have different concerns and needs. The report makes

CMS Proposes Changes to Empower Patients and Reduce Administrative BurdenChanges in Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System would advance price transparency and interoperability Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed changes to empower patients through better access to hospital price information, improve patients’ access to their electronic

 Document(s):  Call for examples on air quality measuresAuthor(s): Partnership on Air QualityYear of publication: 2018   The Urban Partnership for Air Quality has just launched a call for examples of successful (best practices) and unsuccessful air quality measures. The call is open to all interested national, regional and city authorities from the European Union. The general objective of the call is to support the implementation of the Ambient Air

Health will have a strong dimension in the next EU budget. Following the adoption of the new Multiannual Financial Framework for the period 2021-2027 on 2 May, the Commission adopted today the legislative proposal for a new European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) Programme. The health strand of the ESF+ Programme shall support public health policies