News

ePractice database, eHIT report and Roadmap

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:58:00 GMT

The Competitive Health Services project is listed in the ePractice.eu portal which is tailored to the needs of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth practitioners. ePractice members may exchange experiences and views, publish cases concerning their own projects and share news, events, publications, best practices and lessons learnt. Knowledge and expertise repositories can be found in the ePracticeLibrary and News sections.

Our report on the use of the eHIT tool has also been published. Please see also our [Roadmap to Transnational Exchange of eHealth Innovation]

Teledialysis pilot received an NHS award

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:56:00 GMT

The Scottish project partners have received an NHS Highland's Recognising Excellence award on their teledialysis pilot. Please read more about the Award: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/crh/news/

http://www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk/News/Pages/RecognisingExcellence-NHSHighlandStaffAwards2010–theresults!.aspx

An article about the teledialysis service was also publsihed in a Swedish Dialäsen magazine for renal staff in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway (page 32-33) http://www.dialasen.com/PDF/dialasen6%20del2.pdf

and in the UK renal patient magazine Kidney Life (page 19)

Media attention

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:39:00 GMT

The launch of the tele-dialysis service in Scotland

Read the BBC news

The Finnish wound care and speech therapy pilots

Launch of the wound care and speech therapy pilots
The wound care pilot featured in a TV programme “Akuutti”
The wound care pilot in YLE regional news
An article in Mediuutiset
A second article about the wound care in Mediuutiset

DG-REGIO

Read about the project in “Panorama” magazine by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional Policy
a follow-up of our project in the Autumn 2010 issue of Panorama

Project published in a Regional Policy – Inforegio database under Success stories

Piloting new services

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:59:00 GMT

Piloting new services

We have started piloting new eHealth services in the Northern Periphery. In Finland, a remote wound clinic has been established between Pudasjärvi health care center and Oulu University Hospital. You can read about the pilot from the YLE website. Remote speech therapy service has also been launched. A pilot service which offers support in weight control and health promotion through wireless devices has also been tested - please read more in our latest eNewsletter.