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Thursday, 31st of December 2020

Two months after the New Year’s celebrations: where are we with our resolutions?

2018 was a new START. Following our last newsletter call, maybe some of you downloaded our mobile app aiming to contribute to Parkinson’s early detection. Thus you contributed to the development of an innovation that will eventually be able to detect early signs of the disease in the near future.

2018 was also a continuation. We all kept LIVING – sometimes healthily, sometimes struggling with seasonal or chronic disease. But we all kept things going. And here, hopefully we will soon be able to help as well with novel interventions sustaining the quality of life of people living with Parkinson’s.

But above all: 2018 is TODAY! Last year we celebrated the 200th anniversary of Parkinson’s being recognised as a medical condition. We do not want to wait another century to make progress. We want real and practical change for people who live with the disease today.

Follow the path of our ambassador Heidi Reynolds who is everyday engaging with her StartLivingTodayPD community around the common ambition to better live with the disease. May you be living with the condition, may you have family relatives with Parkinson’s or be an healthy person convinced of the benefits of medical research for better health, join the i-PROGNOSIS community by downloading our mobile app on Google Play Store.

Your data will help refine the algorithm able to detect early signs of Parkinson’s. Your data will be anonymised and securely stored on a Cloud. The first prototype of the iPrognosis mobile application is free and currently available for Android devices in Germany, Greece, Portugal and the UK. We are still working hard to make it available in other EU countries. May you be able to help us, please contact: info@i-prognosis.eu

O U R A M B A S S A D O R S

Heidi Reynolds - Founder of Start Living Today

Heidi: “Remember Parkinson’s is just a condition - not who you are”

Heidi is a passionate and talkative community leader! She usually gets out of bed to ride her spin bike as preparation for paddle boarding season. Founder of the Start Living Today PD Facebook group, she shares huge zest for life with her fellows no matter how Parkinson's disease can affect her.

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Ethics and Equity in digital health

iPrognosis collects individual health data while people make use of their smartphones to facilitate early detection of the Parkinson's disease. An HiMSS Europe article published on January 17, 2018 and written by Vasileios Nittas yet reminds that eHealth and mHealth solutions do not automatically imply improved health and raises questions around digital health, ethics and equity.

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i-PROGNOSIS presentation to the Greek PD association - “New Year’s Cake” Event 2018

The Association of Parkinsonians Patients and Friends of Northern Greece held the established “New Year’s Cake” – the so-called “Vasilopita” cake in Greek, event on Wednesday January 31, 2018. A great number of members, as well as relatives and close friends attended.

Two i-PROGNOSIS partners establish the first official transCampus programme

The transCampus initiative aims to drive forward university partnership and collaborative research works between two of Europe’s leading academic institutions and partners of the i-PROGNOSIS project: King's College London (KCL) and Technische Universität Dresden (TUD).

E V E N T S

Solutions taking up the digital shift in healthcare (26 Feb. 2018)

Taking opportunity of a major stakeholder gathering with the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing Conference of Partners taking place in Brussels on February 27 and 28, i-PROGNOSIS is joining forces with three other European projects in organising a joint market-oriented workshop on February 26 from 16:00 to 17:30.

Conference of Partners of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (27-28 Feb. 2018)

The next Conference of Partners will take place on 27-28 February in Brussels. The European Commission is planning for this to be a working 2-day meeting, open to all partners of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA).

DAGA MÜNCHEN (19-22 Mar. 2018)

Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of Technical University Munich (TUM), DAGA invites you all of us to take a look at its acoustics tradition. Acousticians will celebrate TUM’s 150th anniversary with a double conference of DAGA and GAMM, the latter being the conference of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, which features numerical acoustics.

M O R E U P D A T E S

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