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Multi-million-euro Commitment to Nanomedicine

The EU ERA-NET initiative EuroNanoMed will support eight transnational research projects with EUR 17 million based on the result of its first call for proposals, which was launched in May 2009 to promote collaborative and interdisciplinary research into nanomedicine - the application of nanotechnology to health.

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Aintree Goes Live with Medway Sigma

Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a trust-wide clinical information system from System C Healthcare. Over 1,000 Aintree users, including 700 clinicians, went live with Medway Sigma Clinician's Desktop last week.

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Connectathon Goes to France

The Tenth Annual European interoperability testing event, known as the IHE Connectathon, will be held in Bordeaux, France from April 12th to 16th, 2010 at the Cité Mondiale, a conference center located in the heart of the city on the banks of the Garonne river.

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Mathematical Approach Contributes to Lower Radiation Dose in Computed Tomography

One of the main challenges of computed tomography (CT) is to provide excellent image quality while exposing patients to the lowest possible dose of radiation. Reductions in dose application typically lead to increased image noise and loss of image quality.

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iSOFT Wins $5.4 Million in Deals with Two NHS Trusts in England

Australia's largest listed health information technology company has announced contracts totaling about £3 million ($5.4 million) for new hospital information systems at two NHS trusts in England. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust this month agreed to a six-year contract worth £2.04 million ($3.7 million), while NHS Wandsworth has signed a three-year £965,000 ($1.7 million) deal.

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Microsoft and Stakeholders Look at eHealth, Standards and Interoperability

Interoperability and eHealth might at first glance appear as very different concepts - but the actual relationship between the two is extremely important. Microsoft recently hosted a session on interoperability and standards in eHealth as part of its overall interoperability series.

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QResearch Produces New Fracture Risk Score

A simple new score which can predict the risk of patients suffering fractured bones due to osteoporosis has been developed using the QResearch database. The algorithm, QFractureScores, can be used by clinicians and patients and calculates an individual's percentage risk of an osteoporotic fracture over the next ten years, allowing early intervention to take place.

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Call for Papers: Personal Health - Intelligent Solutions to Serve Empowered Patients

8-11 June 2010, University of Westminster, London, UK.
Dealing with medical and care compunetics, the field of social, societal and ethical implications of computing and networking, ICMCC decided to focus the 2010 Event on Electronic Health Records (EHR) and secondarily, the connection between EHR and Digital Homecare.

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IBM Helps Italian Orthopedic Institute Perform Deep Analytics to Treat Rare Skeletal Diseases

IBM (NYSE: IBM)announced that its Research scientists are working with the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, in Bologna, Italy, to use information technology to better address treatment and research for rare genetic skeletal diseases.

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85% of Online Europeans Use the Internet for Health Information

In 2009, 85% of online Europeans in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain turn to the Internet and other technologies for health and prescription drug information, according to the latest Cybercitizen Health® Europe v9.0 study from healthcare and pharmaceutical market research company Manhattan Research. The collaboratively-edited Wikipedia again proves to be a top online health resource for consumers in all of the countries surveyed.

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