Orion Health, a leading provider of integration technology for the healthcare sector, today announced that it is exhibiting its solutions during Hôpital Expo-Intermedica, from 27th to 30th May 2008 at Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles.
TRIL (Technology Research for Independent Living) Centre launched the BioMOBIUS Research Platform, an open shareable technology platform, which allows researcher to rapidly develop sophisticated technology solutions for biomedical research. This platform helps researchers to reduce the time spent on developing foundational technologies, allowing them to focus on their actual research.
St Jansdal hospital in Harderwijk, the Netherlands, is now connected to the National Switchpoint (LSP) thanks to iSOFT becoming the country's first hospital able to retrieve patient medication information via the Electronic Medication Record. Three pharmacies in the region have also been connected.
The European Commission is moving a step closer to making it easier for companies, in particular Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), to bid for public sector contracts anywhere in the EU; a crucial step towards achieving the Single European Market. The Commission will co-finance a pilot project, driven by eight European countries that will create the conditions to link existing national electronic public procurement (e-procurement) systems.
The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Public Health and Primary Care Research will hold a Seminar on eHealth Research on June 2nd, 2008 at the Queen's Medical Research Institute, Little France, Edinburgh. This eHealth Seminar will highlight the interdisciplinary and translational nature of current eHealth projects at the Centre for Public Health and Primary Care Research and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and highlight the future potential of eHealth in delivering improved healthcare outcomes.
The special ePractice.eu Mid-Term workshop held on Monday 19 in Brussels was a great success. A total of 82 members of the online community participated in the event, which counted with the presence of several high-level experts who delivered key note speeches and EC officials responsible of the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth policies, amongst them the Heads of Unit David Broster, Gérard Comyn and Karel De Vriendt.
The European Commission has just launched the first ever European e-Inclusion Awards. As part of the European Commission's e-Inclusion Initiative, the Awards will celebrate the best and most imaginative uses of Information and Communications Technology to reduce digital and social exclusion. These awards will celebrate the best and most imaginative uses of ICT to reduce digital and social exclusion.
IBM announced that it is collaborating with nine business partners to help healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals improve productivity, increase quality and reduce costs through the use of service oriented architecture (SOA). These partners are all working to develop their latest healthcare applications using the IBM SOA Foundation and supporting a set of open technology and industry standards.
iSOFT has installed LORENZO at the St Jansdal Hospital in The Netherlands as part of a regional Electronic Health Record (Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD)) project. LORENZO EPD viewer allows GPs operating in the community to view patient records as well as laboratory, radiology and pathology reports at the hospital at Harderwijk.
Carestream Health's authorised distributor for Latvia, NMS Grupa, has reported an order for a Carestream Health digital mammography screening solution for the Mediciniska firma Dziednieciba (MFD Healthcare Group) in Riga, Latvia.