In most European countries with their highly developed healthcare systems and ageing populations, communicable diseases were of little concern for public health, authorities and researchers compared to their non-communicable counterparts. This changed with the COVID-19 pandemic, which had an impact on societies and health systems world-wide and demonstrated most vividly that health systems do not […]

Rare Disease Day is the globally-coordinated movement on rare diseases, working towards equity in social opportunity, healthcare, and access to diagnosis and therapies for people living with a rare disease. Since its creation in 2008, Rare Disease Day has played a critical part in building an international rare disease community that is multi-disease, global, and […]

The Shared Services of the Ministry of Health (SPMS) of Portugal will make a presentation titled "Lessons learnt and experiences about the deployment of Big Data solutions in a national context" where eCAN will be featured. The presentation was made in the context of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe's Spring School on […]

World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7 April to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. Each year for this date, a theme is chosen that highlights an area of priority concern for WHO. In the face of the current pandemic, a polluted planet, and an […]

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), as WP8 member, will present preliminary results from the Stakeholders Mapping survey and the workshop: "the Patient/Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) Engagement Strategy".

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), as WP8 member, will explain the importance of getting policymakers involved in a research project such as eCAN. In the same workshop, WP8 will go through the different strategies eCAN partners may use to get policymakers involved.