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SOMATOM Emotion Sheds New Light on 2,500 Year Old Mummy

A team of radiographers from City University London recently examined a 2,500 year old Egyptian mummy named Tahemaa. A SOMATOM® Emotion CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare was used to learn more about how Tahemaa died without damaging the corpse.

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Economic Crisis Threatens Access to Health Services

The global economic crisis poses a massive threat to the stability of the public healthcare systems and to general access to healthcare services, warn leading experts speaking about this year's key theme of "Financial Crisis and Health Policy" at the European Health Forum Gastein from 30 September to 3 October 2009, the leading health policy event in the European Union.

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The City of Bolzano Chooses IBM to Enable New Solutions for Citizens

The City of Bolzano, Italy and TIS Innovation Park have entered into a strategic initiative with IBM (NYSE: IBM), with the aim of creating a smart city. Bolzano, capital of South Tyrol in northern Italy, is the fifth Italian city to choose IBM to identify and design a new model for a sustainable city through a range of digital solutions. During the next few months a pilot project will be implemented for remote health monitoring of the elderly.

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eHealth Day at Conference for Java, Enterprise Architectures & SOA

November 11 2009, Munich, Germany.
InterComponentWare AG (ICW) and Java Magazine present the eHealth Day on November 11, 2009 at the technical conference W-JAX, from Monday, the 9th through Friday the 13th of November, 2009. Experience an attractive mix of tomorrow's technologies and practical knowledge derived from real-world experience in the health care sector.

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Explaining International IT Application Leadership: Health IT

By Daniel Castro, The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF).
Greater use of information technology (IT) in health care can help achieve many health care reform goals. Health IT can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care by reducing costs, improving the quality of care, and increasing access to health care services and information.

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BIOTECHNICA 2009 Expands its Coverage

6-8 October 2009, Hannover, Germany.
BIOTECHNICA 2009 will be formally opened on 5 October by Lower Saxony's Minister for Economic Affairs, Dr. Philipp Rösler, and Dr. Stefan Marcinowski, a board member at BASF and president of the German Biotech Industry Association (DIB). Also speaking at the opening ceremony will be the American Kary Mullis, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993 and inventor of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction).

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Carestream Molecular Imaging Announces Availability of New Bone Density Image Analysis Software

Carestream Molecular Imaging, a division of Carestream Health, Inc., announced worldwide availability of a new Bone Density Software application that performs bone density analysis of small animals in vivo and measures mineral density of specimens in vitro.

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Researchers Use Mapping Technology to Tackle Visual Impairment Woes

Being able to orient yourself in places you're unfamiliar with is not easy. So one could imagine how difficult it is for people who are either blind or visually impaired. Researchers at the Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) Group at the University of Stuttgart in Germany are developing a mobile navigation device that will help blind and visually impaired students to navigate in unknown surroundings.

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Healthcare IT Exchange

5-7 December 2010, UK, Venue (TBA).
In an industry driven by improving the quality of patient care, meeting regulations and controlling costs, leading Healthcare executives understand the strategic importance to work towards a digital era. As Europe continues to age, chronic diseases grow and patients become empowered through new technologies, the Healthcare landscape has to adapt as it's workload increases.

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Mounting Popularity of Wireless and Handheld Devices to Support Uptake of e-Prescription Systems

Trends indicate a growing acceptance of the concept of e-prescription across Europe. Healthcare in Europe is becoming increasingly digitised as the healthcare delivery system undergoes tremendous change. However, electronic technology that is transforming various areas of business is yet to be fully explored in the area of medication prescription with challenges related to the poor basic level of automation and technical barriers to the ease of use first needing to be overcome.

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