The Fundación Andaluza de Servicios Sociales (FASS) of the Junta de Andalucía has announced its 100,000th telecare deployment in Spain, helping to increase independence and improve quality of life for service users by enabling them to receive the care and support they need in their own homes.
iSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF) - Australia's largest listed health information technology company today announced that Christophorus-Kliniken will become the sixth early adopter of iSOFTs LORENZO next-generation solution in Germany as part of an agreement to upgrade hospital information systems (HIS) at its three hospitals in the Coesfeld district of North Rhine-Westphalia.
21st and 22nd September 2009, Scottish Health Service Centre, Edinburgh.
The conference will draw together clinicians, IT, Academia, Informaticians, developers and industry from across Scotland and the wider UK and Europe. Themes include Patient Portals, Patient Access to Health Records and Personal Health Records, Information consistency, Sharing and Security and Governance of Patient Records.
This blog is a complementary space to the Microsoft Health Blog and will try exploring, informing, debating and discussing the many issues and opportunities surrounding the adoption and implementation of the latest information technology solutions in healthcare in EMEA region. Microsoft EMEA Health Blog looks forward to sharing experiences and viewpoints in healthcare especially in EMEA and across the world.
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that the Centre Hospitalier du Mans in France has selected Agfa HealthCare's leading Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) ORBIS(TM) to support the implementation of a full Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solution.
Advances made in diagnosis and treatment over the past 30 years have reduced the risk of patients dying from aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (the bursting of a blood vessel on the surface of the brain), shows new research from the Netherlands published in the journal Lancet Neurology.
Being venturesome in business can pay off. And the Somatom Definition, the world's first CT scanner with two X-ray tubes, has the sales figures to prove it. Since its market launch at the end of 2005, this system has already been installed over 500 times in leading clinics throughout the world. This proves that dual-source technology is in demand not only in research, but in routine diagnostics as well.
At the SmarterCities forum, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the opening of its first European Analytics Solution Center in Berlin, initially designed to serve public sector clients, universities and healthcare organizations. The new center is the first step, in a recently announced global network that addresses the emerging market for advanced analytics capabilities, which will help clients build smarter business systems and drive improved decision-making.
The present White Paper describes the legal framework conditions and technical requirements for the creation of electronic time stamps and also examines the differences between qualified and non-qualified time stamps, for differentiation purposes termed "other time stamps" below.
29 September - 1 October 2009, Vienna, Austria.
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aims at extending the time older people can live in their preferred home environment by increasing their autonomy and assisting them in carrying out activities of daily living.