Friday 30 May 2008
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
TeleHealth describes the delivery of health-related services over a distance using information and communications technologies. It is expected that such services will help European health systems to better cope with, e.g., growing demands arising from an ageing population, increasing consumerism, or limited supply of funding.
Krakow 17th June 2008, Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Sw. Anny 12 St., 31-008 Krakow, Poland.
London 20th June 2008, King's Building; King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
RTX Healthcare today announced a new member to the family of interactive telehealth monitors, which allows healthcare system integrators and disease management companies to effectively monitor patients at home. The RTX3371 GSM/GPRS Telehealth Monitor collects vital signs wirelessly from external devices and subjective patient information from patient questionnaires and transmits the data directly to the system integrator or disease management company's own clinical information system.
With its first-quarter results, 2008 has started well for CompuGROUP. Compared with first quarter 2007, group revenues rose 13.9%, to EUR 47.5 million. Buoyed by the strong revenues and efficient overheads that remained unchanged, the Group's EBITDA of EUR 12.8 million was 10.2% higher than a year ago.
With this Briefing Paper, EHTEL would like to offer all stakeholders, i.e. politicians, citizens/patients, health professionals, healthcare providers, health insurers and many others a snapshot of the State of the Art on the European, National and Regional levels with the focus on sustainable services. Based on a summary of what has been achieved - particularly in the form of routinely used (but often still small scale) telemedicine services across Europe - a set of recommendations towards a "Vision for Europe 2020: Integrated Telemedicine Services" is established.
BMJ Learning, part of the BMJ Group, announced that it has formed a partnership with the College of Emergency Medicine in the UK, to provide Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses for Fellows and Associate Fellows of the College. The new learning resources are provided in a series of modules-those available immediately include courses on self-harm and the Medical Capacity Act, the management of acute coronary syndromes, and syncope.
Orion Health, a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector, announced its participation in the National Event for Recurring Admission Patient Alerts (RAPA) being held at King's Mill Hospital in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday May 15th, 2008.
CSW Group Ltd, a leading provider of patient-centric electronic healthcare records products, has been appointed to the new Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) framework contracts to provide clinical information systems to deliver a range of IT products and services to the NHS.
InterSystems is working with The Institute of Cancer Research, one of the Europe's leading cancer research organisations, to streamline its administrative processes and increase data consistency and accuracy. The InterSystems Ensemble® rapid integration platform was chosen to integrate and simplify The Institute's internal administration associated with registering new starters and updating information on current employees.