Asklepios, Germany's largest chain of private clinics and medavis GmbH, a leading provider of medical information systems, have signed a framework contract to equip six Asklepios clinics in Hamburg with medavis' radiology information system. The conversion to medavis RIS as the central radiology information system for the Hamburg clinics will be carried out in the course of the OneIT project for the standardisation of the entire IT infrastructure.
Carestream Health has won orders to supply a total of eleven DR systems to Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Fife Health Boards, building further on the company's recent successes in Europe. Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board are currently completing the building of two new, purpose designed Ambulatory Care Hospitals in and around Glasgow - the Victoria Infirmary on the south side of the city and Stobhill Hospital on the north.
The European Commission will present the 4th edition of the prestigious European eGovernment Awards at the 5th EU eGovernment Conference in November 2009. Since their launch in 2003, outstanding practices on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in various European public sector organisations have been awarded.
17-18 September 2009, Constanta, Romania
The main objective of this second conference, organized by the "Gr.T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iaşi, the Romanian Society of Medical Bioengineering and "Ovidius" University of Constanta, is dedicated to the e-health and bioengineering in general.
The World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering - the triennial scientific meeting of the IUPESM - being held in Munich, Germany, on September 7-12, 2009 is the world's leading forum for presenting the results of current scientific work as well as major innovations in health-related technologies to an international audience. More than 4,000 visitors are expected to attend the event.
On 1-3 April 2009, the Luxexpo Exhibition and Congress Center in Luxembourg will be host again to the international Med-e-Tel meeting. The 7th edition of the annual Med-e-Tel conference will focus on proven and tested telemedicine and ehealth applications and provide evidence on clinical effectiveness and economic efficiency as well as on user aspects and satisfaction.
Since 2007, ENISA has been conducting a series of activities towards developing a comprehensive framework for identifying and assessing emerging and future risks (EFR). As a result of these activities, ENISA has constructed an EFR Framework. The EFR Framework is scenario-based and consists of certain phases for the formulation and analysis of scenarios, mobilisation of the necessary expertise (human resources) to assess and analyse the scenarios and leveraging of the management capabilities to collect and disseminate assessed information (e.g., scenario descriptions, threats, vulnerabilities, assets, impacts, risks, etc.).
Excluding currency effects, sales decreased 8.6 percent to 1,223 million Euro. The traditional film segment continued its market-driven decline. In the second half of the year, Agfa HealthCare's sales figures were affected by the economic slowdown as some care organizations are postponing their investments in Enterprise IT, Imaging IT and Computed Radiography (CR) equipment.
eHealth specialist InterComponentWare (ICW) has successfully demonstrated its technological leadership in healthcare IT connectivity at the IHE North American Connectathon, the only large-scale interoperability testing event for the healthcare industry. For three years in a row, the interoperability of ICW's Master Patient Index (ICW MPI) has been designated as IHE conformant.
Making Europe the world leader in ICT is the goal of the new strategy proposed by the European Commission. Today Europe represents 34% of the global information and communication technologies (ICT) market, and its value is growing by 4% per year. However, the value added produced by the EU's ICT sector amounts to only 23% of the total, because both Europe's market and research efforts are fragmented.