• Healthcare Interoperability

    Philip J. Scott is the Head of ICT Development Programmes, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and a Board member, HL7 UK. President Obama’s $19.2 billion HITECH Act has refocused attention on healthcare interoperability. The legislation (Title XIII of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, available via http://www.whitehouse.gov)...

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  • Healthcare IT in Australia

    The year 2009 has witnessed a flurry of initiatives in Australia to get its healthcare infrastructure e-Health ready. As in Europe or the US, however, the process has seen some steps forward, others backward, and quite a few to the side.   The issue of most concern in Australia at the moment is that the government seems ready to...

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  • PIPS: Personalised Informtion Platform for Life and Health Services

    PIPS is the virtual assistant who is attentive, discreet, loyal and always available. It exploits the most advanced information technologies for you in order to encourage healthier individual choices. Informed Individuals The main goal of this virtual assistant is to encourage healthier decisions by providing information among the patients...

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  • Lead Market Initiative: E-Health

    The European Commission has launched the Lead Market Initiative (LMI) for Europe, following the European Union’s 2006 Broad Based Innovation Strategy. Its aim is to encourage the emergence of lead markets of high economic and societal value. The initiative has six markets, one of which is e-health due to its market potential in terms of growing demand...

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  • Orion Healthcare,Oracle

    Tender for Development of the Balearic Islands Electronic Health Record IB-Salut, the health service of the Balearic Islands, awarded Fujitsu Services in conjunction with their technology partners Oracle and Orion Health their tender for development of the “The History of Health” ("La Historia de Salud").   The goal of this tender...

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  • Philips

    Sant Pau Hospital and Philips Pioneer Healthcare Technology Partnership Model The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona and Royal Philips Electronics have signed a 10-year agreement. Philips will be responsible for the provision, maintaining and replacement of medical equipment. It will provide the hospital with consistent access...

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  • MIC 2009 Congress in the Netherlands

    The MIC 2009 congress will take place in Veldhoven, The Netherlands, on November 26 - 27, 2009. The program will consist of workshops and presentations. The main focus will be on Care and ICT. Besides the call for workshops, the congress will offer the possibility to present or demonstrate a product.   The event is organised by VMBI in collaboration...

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  • IT@ Networking Awards 2009

    The 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...

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  • World of Healthcare Congress Europe 2009

    The 2009 World of Health Care Congress Europe (WHCCE) took place on May 13 - 14, 2009 in Brussels. More than 400 participants from Europe, the US, Middle East and Asia were present at the event.   Among the participants were key health ministers from leading countries in Europe, government officials, hospital directors, IT innovators, decision...

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  • E-Health 2009 Congress

    The 4th edition of the e-health 2009 Congress was held in Bucharest, Romania on May 26 - 27, 2009. The event brought together national and international healthcare ICT key players and other healthcare professionals. Tarus Media and the Romanian edition of the British Medical Journal were responsible for media coverage of the event.   The main...

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