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Sentient Health Expands UK Healthcare Market Presence

Already with a significant presence, Sentient Health plans to extend its reach across the UK healthcare market helping more NHS trusts and other healthcare providers to tackle Government policy initiatives such as the Department of Health's quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) agenda and the Operational Efficiency Programme.

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Enhanced Real-Time Monitoring for Siemens Molecular Imaging Systems

Siemens Healthcare now offers the "Guardian Program" for a variety of its molecular imaging systems. The program is monitoring proactively and online the customer systems' performance on an ongoing real-time basis.

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Commission Outlines Action Plan to Boost Europe's Prosperity and Well-Being

Implementing the ambitious Digital Agenda for Europe unveiled by the European Commission would contribute significantly to the EU's economic growth and spread the benefits of the digital era to all sections of society.

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Agfa HealthCare's First Quarter Revenue in Line with Q1 Expectations

Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased 5.2 percent compared to the first quarter of 2009. Due to the economic crisis, the seasonal effects in Agfa HealthCare's markets were even more important than usual, which resulted in a very strong end of 2009 and a lower top line in the first quarter of 2010.

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First European Convergence Workshop to build a pan-European eHealth Infostructure

3rd of June 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Semantics and ontologies - opportunities and challenges for convergence held at the 10th International Special Topic Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI - STC) on Seamless care - safe care: the challenges of interoperability and patient safety in healthcare.

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EFMI Special Topic Conference 2010 in Reykjavik

2-4 June 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland.
EFMI Special Topic Conference 2010 (STC 2010) will explore the challenges facing electronic exchange of health information, particularly interoperability of systems and it's implication for patient safety and continuity of care.

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Philips and Electron Announce Partnership for Development and Production of Healthcare Products in Russia

Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG), and Electron, a leading Russian medical equipment manufacturer, announced a partnership for the development and production of innovative products specifically designed to serve the needs in the Russian healthcare market.

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Ocean Informatics in Health Technology Transfer to Kazakhstan

The Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Republic of Kazakhstan has signed a contract for consultants' services with the Australian company Ocean Informatics Pty Ltd. within the framework of the World Bank-supported Kazakhstan Health Technology Transfer and Institutional Reform Project.

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Digital Agenda: Investment in Digital Economy Holds Key to Europe's Future Prosperity

Europe's digital economy is growing in strength, spreading throughout all sectors of the economy and reaching into all areas of our lives, according to the European Commission's Digital Competitiveness report. Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have driven half of the productivity growth in Europe over the past 15 years.

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QRisk2® Available as Open Source Software

The University of Nottingham and leading healthcare systems supplier EMIS have made the QRisk2® formula for identifying heart disease risk available as open source software.

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