SmartLife Technology has advanced remote monitoring by integrating sophisticated, knitted sensors into any garment from shirts to socks to arm bands. Until now, traditional health monitoring was fashioned through adhesive pads/gels, wired to medical equipment and focused on torso monitoring.
A new solution from Ubisys will make it easier for NHS staff to update Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) shared by local NHS providers such as hospitals and GPs. Ubisys is integrating Anoto's Digital Pen and Paper technology with SystmOne, the most widely used primary care database within the NHS National Programme for IT.
Broomwell's award-winning cardiac telemedicine service has now handled 50,000 calls from surgeries and community hospitals for people with chest-pain symptoms in England, saving an estimated 32,000 hospital referrals for patients since the service started in 2006.
September 23-25 2009, Lille, France
To address the needs of both academic researchers and companies by uniting all the actors of the biotechnology sector - especially the starts-ups and spin-offs - EuroBiO 2009 asserts its ambition: to support the transfer of knowledge and expertise from academic research to the economic world.
September 15-16, 2009, Hamburg, Germany.
The 3rd Baltic Conference on E-Health will focus on "Cross-Border Healthcare". Healthcare managers/providers from Germany, Russia, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania will find an excellent platform to discuss how unlimited, cross-border access for all citizens to most efficient and high-quality healthcare services can be ensured.
iawards are the first awards of their kind to be backed by the British government, working in partnership with leading entrepreneur James Caan. They will shine a light on new technologies and innovations, showing how they can translate into the innovative products and services that improve our daily lives. They will stimulate commercial interest, as well as helping to bridge the gap between business and the general public.
Transinsight's GoPubMed.com, the semantic search engine for the life sciences, has been recognized with the 2009 red dot: best of the best award in the category communication design - graphical user interfaces and interactive tool. A total of 6,112 submissions were received from 42 countries.
In the near future, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL) will be installing the basis module of the hospital information system (HIS) i.s.h.med by Siemens for more than 1,400 users. The selling point for the hospital's decision to purchase Siemens equipment were the integration into the existing ERP and SAP for Healthcare System as well as the multilingualism of i.s.h.med.
Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new business intelligence tool from System C Healthcare. Called Medway Sigma BI, the software is designed specifically to help hospitals in the drive for improved services. Based on Microsoft's latest technology, it is easy to use, but allows trusts to manipulate and analyse raw data relating to all aspects of their inpatient and outpatient services.
6-7 April 2010, Paris, France.
Health 2.0 is fundamentally about creating appropriate consumer and professional content using search, communities and tools, and using those tools to enhance the patient-physician relationship. The phenomenon has exploded in importance in the last three years, and now, Health 2.0 will be discussed and demonstrated in Europe.