The new acute hospital to serve the healthcare needs of residents in Birmingham and the West Midlands will benefit from a raft of innovative medical imaging technologies when it opens its doors to patients in 2010. A multi-million pound investment on four MRI scanners, four CT and three SPECT/CT systems has been made by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB).
CompuGROUP Holding AG, the e-health service company with the broadest reach among service providers world-wide, is now supporting the integrated treatment of patients suffering from Type 2 diabetes mellitus through its subsidiary GIV. Client Knappschaft Bahn See expects the programme to provide more effective patient care and reduce costs significantly.
In a video posted on her website, Viviane Reding, the European Union's Commissioner for Information Society and Media, said that Europeans must have the right to control how their personal information is used, and said that the Commission would take action wherever EU Member States failed to ensure that new technologies such as behavioural advertising, RFID 'smart chips' or online social networking respected this right.
EIBIR and the ENCITE consortium cordially invite to the educational workshop on molecular imaging with an interesting variety of existing and new methods. The workshop will take place in Prague, in May 7-8, 2009.
The international consortium of the EU project has developed and launched a Virtual Academy for Health: a unique virtual space created for exchanging and gaining knowledge on European healthcare issues that fosters the use of ICT for learning, exchange, and collaboration in the healthcare sector, multiplies and furthermore consolidates dialogue arenas among policy makers, students, researchers, healthcare professionals and citizens.
24-26 June 2009, Innsbruck, Austria.
Effective and confident health management is pivotal to meeting the challenges facing Europe's health systems, under pressure from demographic change and operating in a rapidly changing market and the difficulties of global economic slowdown.
External study import becomes an increasing challenge for some institutions where external studies outnumber those produced internally. To address this demanding import workflow ETIAM releases a new version (v2) of CD-in, a small footprint application for importing images on CDs/DVDs or other media from outside institutions, into a PACS.
Healthcare organisations are throwing mobile technology at problems without fully considering the underlying business processes or the working conditions of the end-user. This is the key finding of a multi-country report across the healthcare sector from industry analysts Quocirca. It was commissioned by Anoto, the inventor of Digital Pen and Paper technology.
Australia's largest listed health information technology company, announced that iSOFT has won a two-year A$3.1 million (1.65 million) contract with German private healthcare group Damp Holding AG for an integrated radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communications system (PACS).