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Guest post: The endless opportunities of digital health and care

The technical possibilities for digital health nowadays seem endless. This did not in the least become apparent during the Covid-19 pandemic when patients had the possibility to have digital meetings with their healthcare providers instead of meeting with them in person. There are also many initi...

REBECCA at the Applied Machine Learning Days 2022

REBECCA project featured at Applied Machine Learning Days 2022

On 28 March, the REBECCA project was featured at the Applied Machine Learning Days 2022. Ms Georgia Pantalona, Research Associate from the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, presented the project in a dedicated track Applied NLP Technologies for Physical & Mental Health in Practice. T...

Meeting of Minds 4 - How can new technology better support patients

Patient involvement in the co-creation process highlighted at the 4th Meeting of Minds of the Cancer Survivorship – AI for Well-Being Cluster

On 23 and 24 February, the REBECCA project participated in the 4th Meeting of Minds of the Cancer Survivorship – AI for Well-Being Cluster. The event titled ‘How can new technologies better support patients?’ aimed at gathering patient feedback on the digital, AI-based tools that the Cluster memb...

REBECCA project to participate in the 4th Meeting of Minds of the Cancer Survivorship – AI for Well-being Cluster

The REBECCA project will be participating in the 4th Meeting of Minds of the Cancer Survivorship - AI for Well-being Cluster, which will be taking place online on 23 February from 10.00 to 17.00 CET and will continue on 24 February from 10.00 to 15.00 CET. The event titled ‘How...

Collecting preliminary data from breast cancer patients to help shape the REBECCA mobile app

In November, Breast Cancer Society AMAZONA, one of the REBECCA partners, reached out to its members, breast cancer patients who have undergone primary treatment, to fill out a survey to collect the data needed for the development of the REBECCA mobile application. The data collected will be used ...

REBECCA project at EHMA 2021 Annual Conference

Dr Ioannis Sarafis presents the REBECCA project at the EHMA PIE session on Improving healthcare access and outcomes

Dr Ioannis Sarafis, a postdoctoral researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – the REBECCA project leader, represented REBECCA with an EHMA PIE presentation at the EHMA 2021 Annual Conference. The presentation titled Moving beyond RCTs: Tapping the potential of Real-World Data f...

Izabela Grape underlines the importance of utilising patient engagement

Ms Izabela Grape, Chairwoman of Breast Cancer Society Amazona, spoke at the Plenary Session on Leadership for the Future of Healthcare at the EHMA 2021 Annual Conference, held digitally from 15-17 September 2021. Grape, who is a two-time breast cancer survivor, opened the session by sharing her p...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Breast cancer survivor, Roelinde Middelveld, shares her story

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Collaboration between clinical researchers and patients much needed

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an international campaign organised every October to raise awareness about breast cancer and support women to reduce their breast cancer risks, be screened and seek medical attention if a suspicious lump is detected. According to the World Health Organisation, in ...

REBECCA project to be featured at the EHMA 2021 Annual Conference

On Thursday, 16 September 2021, the REBECCA project will be featured at the EHMA 2021 Annual Conference. The conference is organised by the European Health Management Association (EHMA), one of the REBECCA project partners, and is the preeminent European conference on health management. It b...

New EU-funded project REBECCA to improve post-treatment in breast cancer

REBECCA, REsearch on BrEast Cancer induced chronic conditions supported by Causal Analysis of multi-source data, is a new project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. REBECCA aims to tap into the potential of Real-World Data to support clinical researc...