News

19 November 2008

Breast health project: kick-off meeting in Denmark

The project “Cross-border Collaboration on Population Breast Health in South Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein” starts its activities with a kick-off meeting on 3–4 of February 2009 in Odense, Denmark.  more »

8 October 2008

EU application on breast health project approved

Another project in the frame of the INTERREG 4A-Program Syddanmark-Schleswig-K.E.R.N. is approved: “Cross-border collaboration on Breast Health: Prevention, examination and treatment of breast cancer in Denmark and South Schleswig-Holstein”. The project will start in November 2008; lead partner is Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany.  more »

24 September 2008

Network presentation at the Committee of European Affairs

Today, 24 September 2008, the Committee of European Affairs of the Landtag Schleswig-Holstein (state parliament) came together in Kiel, Germany. The eHealth for Regions partner Thorsten Beck (AOK Schleswig-Holstein, Statutory Health Insurance, Germany) attended this public session to present the network.  more »

22 September 2008

Baltic Conference on E-Health 2008

The 2nd Baltic Conference on E-Health will take place on 26th of September 2008 in Hamburg under the patronage of Ulla Schmidt, German Federal Minister of Health. This cross sector forum for healthcare providers offers all guests coming from various Baltic countries the opportunity to exchange views and experiences about E-Health. The attendees will include representatives from hospitals, governments, health insurance organisations, service providers and media.  more »

3 September 2008

eHealth Conference 2008 in Kiel - "eHealth's rolling out”

The fifth eHealth Conference will take place on 9th and 10th of September 2008 in Kiel. The conference "eHealth's rolling out - Qualität, Effizienz und Akzeptanz unter Praxisbedingungen" will focus on concrete ways to realise eHealth projects. Attendees will exchange experience and discuss the problems of transferring modern eHealth technologies into practise.  more »

1st September 2008

Meeting of the Political Strategic Board (PSB) on 13th October 2008

The next meeting of the PSB will take place on 13th October 2008 in Helsinki, Finland. The representatives from the highest regional political level will talk about their further support of the network. 

24 July 2008

Tenth Meeting of the Working Party on Health Systems

The expert group of the European Comission, the Health Systems Working Party (HSWP), met up on 15 – 16 July 2008 in Luxembourg. Thorsten Beck (AOK Schleswig-Holstein, Statutory Health Insurance, Germany) attended this meeting to represent the eHealth for Regions network at this European level.  more »

30 May 2008

Interreg-Application "ICT for health" submitted

On 30th of May, the project partners submitted the project application "ICT for health in regions with ageing population and for chronically sick people" within the Interreg IV B Baltic Sea Region programme. Decisions about approval of application will be taken on 24th of October 2008. 

15 April 2008

Strategic focus further developed

The second meeting of the Executive Steering Committee (ESC) took place 14th and 15th April 2008 in Lund, Sweden. The members discussed the outlines of the network website in progress and the status of the projects under the umbrella of the eHealth for Regions network.  more »

5 October 2007

First meeting of the Executive Steering Committee

The Executive Steering Committee (ESC) met on 4th and 5th October at Gdansk, Poland, for the first time to discuss the tasks and structures of the eHealth for Regions network and the next steps to do.  more »

1st July 2007

eHealth for Regions network established

The representatives of the highest political levels from the eHealth for Regions partner regions met in Stockholm, Sweden, and signed an agreement about a network for innovation in transnational cooperation on health.  more »