How best to harness the potential of technology supporting personalised care will be discussed at the Personal Health Systems 2007 European Commission-organised Conference in Brussels on 12-13 of February in the European Parliament.
ORBIS (TM) Hospital Information System (HIS) is now in operation in all nine Vivantes healthcare institutions. Ongoing implementation of Picture Archiving and Communication System IMPAX (TM), and ORBIS RIS (Radiology Information System) will complete single source-solution from Agfa HealthCare to replace heterogeneous system arena.
Two-day Conference, 6th - 7th February 2007, Tara Copthorne Hotel, London
Built on weeks of primary research with Trusts, hospitals, leading vendors, strategic bodies and end-users in the healthcare community, this Conference targets the core issues facing ICT executives in healthcare today, the implementation of the Connecting for Health programme.
Doctors have always been struggling with the question whether their patients will get a heart attack in the near future. Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart might give them just that answer.
A European consortium has received a EUR 2.8 million grant from the European Commission to develop a camera that can be ingested to obtain images of the digestive tract.
With the launch of the new Seventh Framework Programme for research and development (FP7), a revamped Partners Service addresses the specific needs of potential participants and other users of CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service.
Dräger acquires 10 percent of Siemens AG shares in its Joint Venture Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG for a sales price of approximately 110 million EUR and increases its stake to 75 percent. At the same time, Siemens AG waves the sales option of its shares originally agreed in the Joint Venture contract and retains its 25 percent holding in the Dräger Medical Group.
A new milestone on two levels: Siemens recently introduced the Axiom Artis dBA Twin biplanar radiography system, its latest imaging system for universal angiography and neuroradiology. Together with the new flat detector technology and syngo DynaCT software, the system delivers unique acquisitions thanks to its extremely high contrast and soft tissue differentiation.
InterSystems Corporation announced that its Ensemble rapid integration software ranked number one for interface engines in the survey of healthcare enterprises conducted annually by KLAS Enterprises LLC, a leader in healthcare technology research. The awards were announced in the 2006 Top 20: Year-End Best in KLAS Awards report.
ICT for Health (eHealth) is looking for experts related to three objectives addressed by the call 1 & 2 for proposals (1- personal health systems; 2- patient safety; 3- biomedical informatics and modelling and simulation of physiology and disease related processes).