Both revenues and earnings of CompuGROUP have increased significantly in the business year 2007, and the company is now looking back on the most successful business year in its history. All projected revenues and targeted results have been met. Both the Health Provider Services (HPS) and Health Connectivity Services (HCS) segments have shown an excellent development compared to the previous year's results and are meeting the company's expectations.
23-24 October, 2008
Brussels, Belgium
"Computer modelling and simulation for improving human health" Conference jointly organised by DG INFSO and DG RTD in cooperation with NIH
Major diseases like cancer, neurological and cardiovascular diseases are complex in nature involving environmental, life style, ageing and genetic components.
A new EU-funded information and communication technology (ICT) project is tackling issues of safety in newly developed drugs. Over the next three and a half years, the ALERT (Early detection of adverse drug events by integrative mining of clinical records and biomedical knowledge) project partners will work on an innovative computer system for a better and faster detection of adverse drug reactions (ADRs).
Google Health project had a long way before it has been officially launched and hopefully the eHealth (Healthcare IT) sector will appreciate some useful lessons in announcing new products and learning from the "in advance" feedback. Nevertheless, one of the main lessons remains the power of the eHealth (Healthcare IT) blogosphere. If you still have some doubts, you are very welcome to explore the Google Health related articles applied to the Google Finance Pictures (Google stock).
Developing networks, improving communication, simplifying work - the term "workflow" includes all of this and is playing an increasingly important role in modern healthcare. At the ECR (European Congress of Radiology) in Vienna, Austria, Siemens Healthcare is presenting a whole array of IT services for radiology and its communication within hospitals and with physicians' practices.
The European Congress of Radiology has been held in Vienna every two years since 1991 and, due to its large success, annually since 1999. As the established location for the ECR, the world cultural capital of Vienna, with its rich artistic heritage and unmistakable Viennese flair, offers the ideal backdrop for a scientific event of this magnitude.
At the European Congress of Radiology 2008 (ECR 2008) Siemens Healthcare presents its comprehensive portfolio for radiology and introduces numerous new solutions and products for the improvement of workflows in this special medical field. On the occasion of the Women's Health Days organized by the European Society of Radiology in Vienna, Siemens also places special focus on the topic of "Breast Care".
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today highlighted its leadership in the financing and management of medical technology solutions at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna. Eric-Jan Rutten, General Manager of the company's Professional Healthcare Solutions division in EMEA, used the congress's hospital management symposium as a platform to argue that change in the way medical technology is provided to hospitals is essential to improve patient care whilst managing costs.
Since its establishment in Vienna in 1991, together with the organising ECR Office, the ECR has grown into the second largest medical meeting in Europe and the second largest radiological congress worldwide. It has continued to evolve and refine itself ever since, in terms of science, education, supporting programmes, and services. The increasing number of submitted abstracts and their improving quality bear witness to the continuing excellence of ECR's scientific programme.
With this Briefing Paper, EHTEL aims to contribute to the re-balancing of deployment efforts between infrastructure and clinical services and between ICT experts and health professionals. It furthermore analyse what should be done to make additional telemedicine services sustainable to support the health and social needs of European citizens/patients.