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The latest version of Vigi'Fall, a device that sends out a distress signal in case its wearer has fallen in hospital or home environment will be launched for use in individual households in October 2013.
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As of 22 July 2013 e-RCP, a Lorraine software tool supporting the organisation of Multidisciplinary Coordination Meetings (Réunions de Concertation Pluridisciplinaires – RCP, in French), has allowed patients to send the full RCP dossier to their treating doctor electronically and securely at the end of each meet
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The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University Hospital del Henares in the Autonomous Community of Madrid has been awarded the MIHealth Innovation Award 2013 under the category ‘Organisation’ for its project ‘ICU without borders’ (UCI sin paredes, in Spanish).
An historic international treaty to increase book access for blind and visually impaired people has finally been adopted at a meeting of the World International Property Organisation (WIPO) after almost six years of wrangling, negotiations and setbacks.
A draft set of standards and guidelines to make BBC web content and apps more accessible when viewed on mobile devices has been released by the corporation following a year of testing and development.
The Draft BBC Mobile Accessibility Standards and Guidelines were announced in a blog post by Henny Swan, senior accessibility specialist at the BBC. Up to now the BBC’s existing accessibility guidelines have been used as a basis for creating accessible mobile content, Swan says, but it was felt that more specific mobile standards were now needed.
Banking and financial services company Barclays is among winners of the Technology4Good Awards 2013, an annual event which celebrates the potential of technology to affect social change.
By Henny Swan.
The BBC has now published a set of draft Mobile Accessibility Standards and Guidelines to the wider web development community, a ground-breaking project which has been in development for a year now [see also – news, earlier in this issue of E-Access Bulletin]. While written primarily for BBC employees and suppliers to use, the corporation’s hope is that they might be useful for any individual or organisation building mobile web content and native apps.
Electronic petitions have ushered in a new age of popularity for citizen petitioning unseen since the early nineteenth century, according to a new book by E-Government Bulletin editor Dan Jellinek. The historical comparison is made in “People power: a user’s guide to democracy in the UK”, published this week by Transworld http://amzn.to/1aXdRMT . The right [...]
A mobile phone app allowing citizens in developing countries to fight corruption in development projects is one of four £500,000 winners of the Google Global Impact Challenge, which recognises technology innovations by non-profit organisations. The app is a mobile version of Development Check ( http://www.developmentcheck.org/ ), an online platform set up by international development charity [...]
Public sector websites should not ask citizens to register with them or create accounts just to carry out simple transactions or tasks, a leading private sector web specialist has said. “My advice for anyone creating a website is please don’t ask me to register”, Rahul Chakkara, director of online at broadband company TalkTalk told the [...]
By Dan Jellinek The right for a group of citizens to petition the people in charge directly (at first the monarch, and then Parliament), to ask them to put right something they feel is wrong, dates back to the Middle Ages. Its use grew until in the early nineteenth century tens of thousands of petitions [...]
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On 4 July 2013 Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda Hospital presented the project 'Connect-12', consisting of a network system able to share information on patients under dialysis in a safe and bidirectional manner.
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Since 19 June 2013 Swiss citizens have been able to use the European patients Smart Open Services (epSOS) project Patient Summary service for personalised health treatment and medication when going to another epSOS piloting country.
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The Danish Government, supported by the Local Governments Association (KL) and the Danish Regions has recently created a new public plan for the digitisation of health care for 2013-2017. The strategy aims to create better cross-sector relationships and safe treatment based on the individual's resources and needs.
The concept of digital accessibility simply as a means of catering for disabled users is out-of-date: in the modern world, digital inclusion must be understood as the need to serve everybody, whatever their access method or device, a leading accessibility specialist has said.
Accessibility practitioners have defended the international standard ‘WCAG’ web content accessibility guidelines this month, in the wake of an academic study suggesting they were “ineffective”.
The PhD study by André Pimenta Freire of the University of York, as reported in E-Access Bulletin in May, said adherence to the WCAG guidelines could not resolve many problems on website pages encountered by print-disabled computer users. In a series of responses on the bulletin’s website, however, several practitioners raised objections to points raised in Pimenta Freire’s study.
Employers need more support to make their digital job application processes accessible to people with disabilities, according to a new report from disability employment services charity Shaw Trust.
The report, ‘Making work a real choice’, examines the government’s disability employment programme Work Choice through the experiences of more than 400 people – a mix of job applicants, employers, and Shaw Trust staff.
By Ian Hamilton
Video games are now a major part of our culture, but one in which accessibility for people with disabilities is comparatively low. Work in this field has been accelerating greatly in the past couple of years, however, making it a very exciting and fast-paced area of accessibility to be involved with.
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The Swiss Federal Council has recently approved and submitted to Parliament a bill foreseeing the creation of electronic patient records containing the medical data of persons residing in Switzerland in order to make it available to healthcare professionals.
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The Spanish Secretary General for Health, Pilar Farjas, presented in a dedicated press conference in the beginning of June 2013, an app that allows users to carry their organ donor’s card in their mobile phone.