New Medical Data Exchange Solution by Orion Health and Cisco The two companies recently unveiled a new medical data exchange solution to integrate, share and report public health data at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Information Network PHIN Conference 2009, in Atlanta. Rhapsody AXP has been created to address...
READ MOREJersey Choose Intersystems Trakcare for Island-Wide Integrated Care Record Jersey Health and Social Services Department has selected InterSystems TrakCare™ to facilitate an island-wide Integrated Care Record supporting its acute, community, mental health and social care services. Key deliverables within the first phase of this project...
READ MOREIBM Software to Protect Patients in the Event of Medical Device Recalls Implanet, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices, has selected IBM sensor technology as the foundation for BeepN'Track, a new service that traces the movement of Implanet's products – including knee and hip implants - across its supply chain to hospitals. ...
READ MOREESEM, the European Society for Engineering and Medicine HITM is proud to announce a new Associate Member: ESEM, the European Society for Engineering and Medicine “Educating students and professionals in bridging the disciplines”. Focus of ESEM: 1. Educating professionals in bridging healthcare and engineering by: Ó Organising...
READ MORETen Point Plan for Medical Technology BVMed has published a ten-point plan for the care of patients with advanced medical technology as a basis for health policy discussions due to take place in the coming months along with the German Bundestag election campaign. The ten points are: 1. The quality rating of medical devices...
READ MOREPublic Procurement of Innovation Public Procurement of Innovation conference will take place in Stockholm, Sweden on 13 October 2009. The conference will discuss and illustrate Public Procurement of Innovations, PPI, within the Life Science sector. The aim is also to inform about the possibilities with PPI and show a more advantageous way to...
READ MOREThe IT@ Networking Awards 2009 (IT@2009) aims to select outstanding European healthcare IT solution in hospitals and healthcare facilities and bring them to the pan-European stage. The event will take place in Brussels from 29 - 30 October 2009. The attendees will consist of CEOs, CIOs, hospital and healthcare IT Managers, physicians with...
READ MOREMEDICA, one of the world’s largest medical trade fairs and congresses will take place 18-21 November in Dusseldorf in Germany. 2009 is extra-special as MEDICA celebrates its fortieth anniversary. The fair is an opportunity for decision makers from across the world to come and discover the latest technologies and innovations, for professional development,...
READ MOREThe ontology-driven Semantic Interoperability Workshop in ehealth was organised on June 22-23 in the framework of the epSOS project. The goal of this meeting was to advance the evolution of e-health systems in the direction of semantic interoperability. The use and integration of terminologies and associated coding systems as well as ontology-based...
READ MOREThe European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) and their official journal, Healthcare IT Management were proud supporters of the third Baltic Conference on e-health that took place this September under the patronage of Ulla Schmidt, German Federal Minister of Health. The theme was cross-border healthcare and the event made possible a crosssector...
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