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British Patient Capital fulfils the Chancellor’s 2017 Autumn Budget commitment and one of the outcomes of the Patient Capital Review British Patient Capital will support UK businesses with high growth potential to access the long-term financing that will enable them to grow into world-class businesses Investing alongside the private sector, British Patient Capital will support […]

​ The event was organised jointly by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE); the International Foundation of Integrated Care (IFIC); the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM); and Leiden University Medical Center Campus The Hague. It took place as a follow-up to the seminar “Strategic investments

Digital transformation holds the key to unlocking future growth in Europe. Through new funding projects, the next long-term EU budget – the European Multiannual Financial Framework – will help to bridge the EU’s digital investment gap for the 2021-2027 period. View the full factsheet ​ Article Source: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/investing-future-digital-transformation-2021-2027 This project has received funding from the European

In recent years, artificial intelligence has left the machine room and entered the world of mainstream business. Within the next five years, AI will have a major impact in all industries, according to research conducted by BCG and MIT Sloan Management Review. The research found that more than 70% of executives expect AI to play a significant

A unique opportunity to share new ways YOUR hospital, practice, health service or company is using digital health to advance cardiovascular medicine and patient care.   Participate in the first ever ESC Digital Health Call for Technology, for the chance to present your innovations, your technology or your products at ESC Congress 2018 in front

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