How can ICT help citizens improve their health outcomes to build a healthier Europe? Our population is growing and ageing. We are living longer and consuming ever more health services and resources. We are moving to cities to live and work. Growth projections indicate that if we don’t change how we deliver health services, the demand for health care workers will be impossible to supply unless the...

Everywhere you look from Europe, to Canada or Singapore, more efficient spectrum use is increasingly a global regulatory goal; with attention now shifting to what spectrum sharing can add to existing spectrum management options.

It’s been all change in Brussels, and innovation now has a new Commissioner. And Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has made it crystal clear that she intends to be her own woman.

Superbowl Sunday is big business in the US as people all over the nation tune in to watch the American football match of the year. Pizza deliveries soar on what is one of the highest days of food consumption in the US. This year Domino’s Pizza found a new way to cope with the sudden burst of demand on its computing resources: using “the cloud” for extra capacity.

Here is our short interview of Bruce Greenstein, World Wide Managing Director for Health at Microsoft– when he passed through Brussels after a full week at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HiMSS) Atlanta and on his way to the World of Health and IT (WoHIT) and the eHealth high level Event in Barcelona. 

Is a European Innovation Act what’s needed to make Europe more innovative and strengthen growth and competitiveness in the EU? Policymakers, analysts and businesses are currently debating that very question as the EU considers what to do post-Lisbon.

When the new Commission is appointed, it will find a raft of proposals waiting for it – all aimed at putting research, development and innovation at the heart of policy.

Best of with Viviane Reding, Meglena Kuneva, Neil Holloway, John Vassallo, Alexandr Vondra, Jan Muelfheit

Developed economies are already finding it hard to maintain standards of healthcare within existing budgets. Now payers are facing a huge dose of extra cost as, building on advances in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, imaging, diagnostics and other fields, medical technology is delivering the potential for new treatments and diagnostics. eHealth – the application of information and communications...

The European Microsoft Innovation Centre (EMIC), in Aachen, Germany, opened five years ago. Since then, it has created an impressive track record in collaborative applied technology research and product development in several interesting domains. There are indeed many reasons for saying ‘Congratulations EMIC!'