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IHTSDO and openEHR Begin Collaborative Work Programme

IHTSDO and the openEHR Foundation are to work together on a harmonisation project where the overall goal is the practical development of effective and sustainable clinical content for the electronic health record. The project will explore how best to support those who wish to use openEHR™ archetypes and SNOMED CT™ terminology together within current and future systems to support data capture, complex queries, clinical decision support and reporting.

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Spanish Researchers Design Rooms with Sensors that Help Dependent People

Researchers of the Department of Signal Theory, Computer Networks and Communications of the University of Granada, led by José Carlos Segura Luna, are working on a project with researchers of Telefónica I+D to develop a system for locating dependent people in their environment, so that their stay and safety can be guaranteed by using intelligent environments.

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EU Researchers Tackle Borderless Diseases

Nations worldwide have programmes in place to track, treat and research common diseases. Despite their successes, however, some of these programmes are duplicated in many countries, while other nations lack access to key information. To address this problem, researchers in Europe used electronic infrastructures (e-Infrastructures) to coordinate and combine a variety of tools, databases, grids and Web portals.

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New Software for MR Breast Imaging Simplifies Diagnoses and Biopsies

With its new diagnostic reporting software for breast imaging in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Siemens Healthcare provides radiologists with new opportunities in Women's Health. The syngo BreVis diagnostic reporting software shows all of a patient's examination results in a single view - for example ultrasound or radiography images next to the images from magnetic resonance imaging - impossible with previous technology.

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Public Procurement of Innovation - a Driver for Future Health in Europe

13 October 2009 Stockholm, Sweden.
The conference will discuss and illustrate Public Procurement of Innovations, PPI, within the Life Science sector. The aim is also to inform about the possibilities with PPI and show a more advantageous way to make use of public means.

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Laps Care - Tieto's Home Care Planning System

More efficient use of care workers' skills, improved continuity of service, minimised travel time, less need for temporary relief staff, fair distribution of tasks - these are some of the benefits that can be achieved by using Tieto's home care planning system Laps Care for staff planning and scheduling in home care.

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iPLATO Chosen in Tech Media Invest Top 100 List

iPLATO has earned a place in the Tech Media Invest Top 100, a list of the hottest emerging and most innovative companies in the ever converging tech and media industries. The Top 100 list has been revealed by Europe-Unlimited, Europe's leading event organisers for investors and technology companies, in association with The Guardian, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Kemp Little.

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12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention

20th-24th September 2009, Imperial College London.
MICCAI 2009, the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, is set to welcome delegates in London from 20th - 24th September 2009. Now in its 12th year, the MICCAI conference attracts world-leading scientists, engineers and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines associated with medical imaging and computer assisted surgery.

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Prosurgics FreeHand on display at Royal College of Surgeons

Prosurgics' FreeHand, a robotic camera controller for keyhole surgery, will be on display at England's Royal College of Surgeons "Sci-Fi Surgery: Medical Robots" exhibition running 8 September 2009 to 23 December 2009. The exhibition explores medical robotics from sci-fi fantasy to current day reality and future developments.

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British Scientists Use Mould to Create Biological Robot

Slime mould usually gets a bad rap but this microscopic fungus is a star player in the scientific world. British researchers have announced they will use slime mould to design the first ever biological robot: a development that will impact the field of computational robotics.

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