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Europe has gone from thinking music could stop plagues 400 years ago to realising it can help prevent cardiovascular disease today.

More than one in five people aged 15 years and over in the EU have reported having high blood pressure, which can lead to failure in the heart, kidneys or brain. Lowering blood pressure even slightly can reduce the risks of cardiovascular disease.

From the Science and Technology of Music and Sound Laboratory in Paris to King’s College London, Professor Elaine Chew is developing an app for smartphones to boost heart health as part of an EU-funded project called HEART.FM.

‘We’re creating an app that will monitor people’s response as they listen to music and then tailor that music to benefit them,’

More Info: https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-magazine/high-blood-pressure-heart-app-prescribes-musical-therapy

DMEA – Europe`s Leading Event for Digital Health to take place from 25 to 27 April in the Berlin exhibition halls

The DMEA is one of Europe’s most important events for digital health. Once a year, experts from the digital health industry meet for three days in Berlin. In addition to a comprehensive market overview, the DMEA offers all players a wide range of opportunities for intensive exchange, targeted networking and effective customer acquisition.

From 25 to 27 April 2023 on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds the focus will be on the digital transformation of the healthcare system. On the stages at DMEA and at the Hub and Box, topics will get to the core of digital health, ranging from the electronic patient file, telemedicine and interoperability to the digitalisation strategy for the healthcare system and nursing sector. 

More info: https://www.dmea.de/en/about/dmea/

A biopharmaceutical therapeutics company to Incorporate Wearable and Invisible Contactless Digital Health Technologies in Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Trial

A clinical stage biopharmaceutical company announced a collaboration with Innovation Lab companies that focused on using wearable and invisible contactless digital health technology to improve monitoring and data collection for Parkinson’s disease clinical trials.

Currently, monitoring and data collection in Parkinson’s disease clinical trials combine subjective patient-reporting tools such as diaries and questionnaires with periodic neurological and mobility assessments in a clinical setting that only capture a specific moment in time. Unfortunately, this approach fails to give a full, real-time picture of disease progression and the impact of a patient’s daily experience with Parkinson’s symptoms.

The use of these digital technologies is expected to collect an unbiased, objective, and continuous measure of disease impact on function that will help develop more effective therapies.

More info: https://www.digitalhealthnews.eu/industry/6918-bluerock-therapeutics-to-incorporate-wearable-and-invisible-contactless-digital-health-technologies-from-rune-labs-and-emerald-innovations-in-parkinson-s-disease-clinical-trial

A WHO/Europe study has found that digital health technologies are not accessible to all communities and areas in Europe equally, raising concerns over the equitable use of digital tools for health. People with poor health are among the ones struggling the most in accessing these tools.

More information can be found here:
https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/21-12-2022-digital-health-not-accessible-by-everyone-equally-new-study-finds

The Lable2Enable initiative invites health professionals to participate in a survey and share their opinions on what they look for when recommending health and wellness digital apps. This Horizon Europe project aims to promote the adoption of a quality label for health and wellness apps and encourage the uptake of good quality health apps that can be used at scale in prevention, health care and self-care. 

More information about the Lable2Enable project can be found here: https://label2enahttps://label2enable.eu/ble.eu/

A capability framework that will enable the health and care workforce in England to build up skills in artificial intelligence and digital healthcare technologies, published by Health Education England. The Capability Framework identifies gaps in the current knowledge of health and care staff and lays out a path to support the digital transformation of the workforce.

The full report is available here: https://digital-transformation.hee.nhs.uk/building-a-digital-workforce/dart-ed/horizon-scanning/ai-and-digital-healthcare-technologies/applying-the-framework-and-next-steps