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Strategies to Increase the Level of Physical Exercise when Using Public Transport

Walkability has recently emerged as powerful alternative to strengthen the micro urban fabrics, promote the occupation of space, encourage physical activity, and positively contribute to the dynamics of the urban realm, which enhances the citizens’ life quality of life. It has been demonstrated that the use of public transport tends to increase the level of physical exercise of people. This translates into health benefits for private vehicle users who switch to public transport.

Easy vaccine distribution app: private sector helping to overcome the crisis

Estonian logistics startup Sixfold and a team of volunteers created an application to help distribute the COVID-19 vaccines to family doctors. The creators of the app helped the Estonian government and Estonian Health Insurance Fund (Haigekassa) for free as a part of a cooperation project between public and private sector. The app prepares an automatic distribution proposal for more than 700 family doctors in Estonia on the basis of the source data of vaccine deliveries arriving in the country and COVID-19 risk groups.

5G Transatlantic Lab HACK THE HOSPITAL!

Join Garage Stories and Mobile World Capital Barcelona on their first edition of the 5G Transatlantic Lab series “HACK THE HOSPITAL!” and help them explore the potential of 5G and XR to make children's and families’ stay at the hospital as enjoyable and less traumatic as possible! Hack The Hospital edition is an online hackathon that connects the cities of Boston and Barcelona.

Workshop on ML&AI for eHealth

The University of the West of Scotland is hosting an online workshop to highlight the recent advances of AI&ML-based technologies in digital healthcare. Experts from academia and industry will share insights about ongoing research in eHealth from the AI&ML perspective and the current challenges that will pave the way for future directions of research and development in the field.

Technologies: Creating Them or… Being Created by Algorithms?

The rise of eHealth innovation boosts not only new enlightening prospects for healthcare, but also raises many legal, social and ethical dilemmas. How to adopt society to the machines collecting personal data, and to develop an appropriate moral framework? University of Tartu has hosted an online Ethics and Governance Workshop discussing these topics, find out more here.

Ethics and Governance Workshop

University of Tartu is hosting an online workshop about creating better health and healthcare outcomes as well as their potential to endanger trust, compromise people’s privacy as well their data.

IoT and eHealth Digital transformation: How are they going to change our lives in the near future?

ATHIKA proposes to explore innovative approaches for technologically advanced training and support that explicitly integrates humanistic concerns, aimed at increasing the successful implementation of ICT – Internet of Things, Big data and Artificial Intelligence Systems integrated into Decision-Support Systems for the healthcare sector of European companies and ventures.

Workshop IoT and eHealth Digital transformation

La Salle – Ramon Llull University is hosting an online workshop, bringing together HEIs and SMEs and other experts, start-ups, and tech industry on the eHeath sector, discussing about recent eHealth innovations, entrepreneurship opportunities, challenges in product quality assessment and validation and Future of IoT in healthcare.

ATHIKA online course: discovering innovation in eHealth sector

More than 200 international students have developed their competences thank to the ATHIKA online course, starting on 8th of February. Titled as “eHealth opportunities and challenges: IoT, AI and Ethics” the course has received a great interest.

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