Barcelona, E-Health capital 2010

Viviane Reding, European Comissioner for Information Society and Media, announced in World of Health IT 2008 meeting that Barcelona will be hosting the European Union's eHealth Ministerial Conference in 2010.

Among the organisers: HIMSS, the European Commission, the Ministry of Health and Consumption of Spain, and the Government of Catalonia.

From E-HealthCat, we are delighted of hosting this event in our favourite venue.

Digital contents consumption in Spain

The Observatorio Nacional de las Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información belongs to the public body red.es and its main aim is to analize the information society in Spain.

Recently, the Observatory has published a white paper on Digital Contents (Libro Blanco de los Contenidos Digitales). There is a full chapter dedicated to the Network Society and summarise the use of tools such as wikis, blogs, repositories, etc...

Two thirds of Spaniards (64%) consume digital contents. Music and films are the king contents (more than 70%). Interestingly podcasts are consumed by only 0,8% of digital users.

Health information is used by 44%, a 2-bagger regarding 2004.