Search Tag: Healthcare
2016 16 Jun
The Leadership & Management Forum aspires to assemble senior executives of the cardiovascular community who are occupied either in the academic field or in the National Schools of Public Health, directors of cardiovascular clinics and labs, decision makers in public and private health care sectors, as well as executives in the Insurance, Pharma and...Read more
2016 02 Feb
Two health bodies have joined forces to fight a rise in healthcare IT cybersecurity risks. The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit, federally-recognised standards development organisation and accrediting body for organisations that electronically exchange healthcare data, and the National Health Information...Read more
2016 17 Mar
Barometer for the Future Medical Industry KIMES provides you with the opportunity to identify and confirm the great potential and prospect of the future medical industry as well as the latest medical industry trend as a venue where 1,100 domestic and overseas manufacturers show the new technology and new products. It will become the venue for the...Read more
2016 16 Mar
IFIC2016 finds itself in Vienna, the ‘City of Music’. It is a city with strong associations with Ignaz Semmelweis, the father of modern “hygiene”, and thus of healthcare infection prevention and control. Today, this field of work is – as many other aspects of our lives – confronted with intriguing perspectives as well as frightening but exciting challenges....Read more
2016 22 Feb
In the quest to eliminate preventable harm and consistently deliver outstanding care, many health care organizations seek to learn from the successes of high-reliability organizations (HROs). HROs operate in complex, dynamic environments where there is constant risk of catastrophic failure. Yet these organizations perform well day after day because...Read more
2016 16 Oct
ISQua is delighted to collaborate with the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (JQ) to host our 33rd International scientific meeting on quality and safety in health care in Tokyo, Japan 16 - 19 October 2016 . ISQua aims to promote and support continuous improvement in the quality and safety of health care worldwide. Japan, with the world's...Read more
2016 01 Jun
Building the Future of Health is a large international conference that will take place in June 2016 in Groningen, the Netherlands. It marks a fundamental change in how we think about our built environment, public health and our healthcare system.Read more
2016 05 Jan
Seguro Popular: Mexico’s Progress in Protecting the Right to Health Mexicans are embracing human rights more than ever before, and Mexico’s constitution has recognised that healthcare is a universal right for more than thirty years. And yet, as made obvious by conflicts over 'Obamacare' in the United States (Council of Economic Advisers 2015),...Read more
2015 21 Dec
Hologic, Inc. has announced that the Company will present at the 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco on January 12, 2016 at 2 p.m. Pacific Time . The presentation will be webcast live and may be accessed through a link on the investors section of Hologic's website at http://investors.hologic.com . The webcast will...Read more
2016 03 Sep
After the immense success of its first & second edition, International India Medical Tourism Congress (IIMTC) is back with its Third edition. Renowned as the biggest and the only event of its kind in the Indian subcontinent The Third edition of International India Medical Tourism Congress (IIMTC) is scheduled to be conducted at Hyderabad from 12th...Read more
2015 17 Dec
Communication is one of the most critical elements of quality patient care. However, it can be difficult to accomplish effective communication during handoffs in the hospital. Internists Janice Kwan, MD, MPH, and Matthew Morgan, MD, MSc, FACP at Mount Sinai evaluated if patient navigators would be able to resolve this problem at Mount Sinai. The...Read more
2015 27 Nov
An exciting event about the future of interoperability in the European Healthcare sector takes place in Lisbon next week with a focus on assets’ collection and usability plus actions needed to support, prepare and enable Member States to reap the benefits of safe and secure cross-border care. Called the EXPAND Thematic Network, the...Read more
2015 29 Nov
The International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) is a major international AIDS conference which takes place in Africa. Its current biennial hosting alternates between Anglophone and Francophone African countries. The 2015 ICASA will be held in Zimbabwe. The convening of the International Conference on AIDS...Read more
2015 17 Nov
Tailored service offerings help hospitals manage people, processes and technologies Wide portfolio offers everything from equipment services, to cloud and managed services, to remote monitoring and financial services. Dedicated and expert Services teams support hospitals around the world to meet targets and goals. Hospitals can outsource,...Read more
2015 09 Nov
The European Health Property Network (EuHPN) puts efficiency of healthcare buildings in focus at its annual workshop event taking place in Brussels next week. Through two days of plenary sessions and interactive debate, delegates concentrate on finding practical value in evaluation: learning from the past, understanding how to assess and use evidence,...Read more
2015 26 Oct
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) announced it has appointed to Baxter’s Board of Directors Michael F. Mahoney, president and chief executive officer of Boston Scientific Corporation. Mahoney will serve on Baxter’s corporate governance and compensation committees. “Mike’s significant knowledge of the global medical products business and his track...Read more
2015 26 Oct
CareFusion, a BD company, announced its Vital Signs anesthesia delivery and patient monitoring business has entered into an exclusive agreement with AAM Healthcare to distribute its APA™ video laryngoscope in the U.S. and 12 other countries. The APA™ video laryngoscope is a handheld, portable device to aid in tracheal intubation. Inspired and designed...Read more
2015 24 Sep
Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.(NYSE: HRC ) announced the appointment of Dr.Dirk Ehlers as President, Trumpf Medical. Before joining Hill-Rom, Ehlers, 54, was President and Chief Executive Officer of Eppendorf, a life science tools company, based in Germany. Prior to Eppendorf, Ehlers served as the Head of Professional Diagnostics with Roche Diagnostics,...Read more
2015 03 Sep
Combining innovation and ease of use, Agfa HealthCare offers ONE platform for IT and ONE platform for Imaging The Enterprise Imaging platform offers an image and information management ecosystem that supports healthcare enterprises and caregivers to increase productivity and enhance the value of care. The MUSICA image processing...Read more
2015 03 Sep
Predictive medicine is a new philosophy in the healthcare and an attractive subject for currently initiated research activities aimed at a potential application of innovative biotechnologies in the prediction of human pathologies, a development of well-timed prevention and individual therapy-planning. The issue has several aspects which allow the...Read more
2015 30 Aug
The conference provides an excellent opportunity for state and local government program and IT professionals to network with their counterparts across the nation and with their federal partners. The private sector serving HHS demonstrates new technical solutions and innovations designed specifically for the challenges facing state administrators. The...Read more
2015 30 Sep
Our conference is an ideal starting point to debate what ‘CHANGE for the better’ could look like. Our exceptional panel of Irish and international speakers will lead the discussion on the lessons we can take from the past to inform the future. It focuses on two main areas. The first area is innovation in processes, practices and technology used in...Read more
2015 18 Jul
A hospital in Hamilton, ON Canada has initiated a novel 'three wishes programme" in an effort to making dying in an ICU a bit less impersonal. Dr. Deborah Cook, a professor of medicine at McMaster University and an ICU physician at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton explains that humanising the environment when somebody is dying can be a real challenge...Read more
2015 14 Oct
The 31st annual Patient Classification Systems International (PCSI) Conference: Towards sustainable health and social care systems will focus on issues that top the health and social care agendas — case mix, health information, person-centered health care, value-based approaches, assessment and appropriate funding. In keeping with the tradition of...Read more
2015 13 Jul
Masimo Addresses the Inaccurate and Misleading Claims that Covidien Continues to Make Regarding Nellcor Pulse Oximetry Performance Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI), the inventor of measure-through motion and low perfusion pulse oximetry, has renewed its $1,000,000 (USD) performance guarantee that Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry will outperform all Nellcor (part...Read more
2015 22 Jun
-- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health are proud to announce that Chief Information Officer Ed Kopetsky was recently presented with the 2015 Silicon Valley Business Journal, San Francisco Business Times and PwC CIO of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award . The award recognized his significant contributions...Read more
2015 22 Jun
Calgary Scientific Inc., a company known for creating innovative technology for the medical industry and beyond, has announced that Dave Waldrop has been named Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Dave is also a member of Calgary Scientific’s Office-of-the-President, a four member team of senior executives responsible for collaboratively...Read more
2015 22 Jun
McKesson Corporation has announced that Kathy McElligott has been appointed to executive vice president and chief information (CIO) and chief technology officer (CTO) effective July 20 . McElligott comes to McKesson from Emerson where she served as CIO since 2010 and managed Emerson’s information technology strategy and information security for...Read more
2015 19 Jun
Healthcare organisations that aim to survive and grow need CEOs that understand the continuum of care and are capable of providing patients a bundle of excellent services at economical costs. Some key attributes that ideal healthcare CEOs should have include: Ability to Embrace Change : CEOs, especially in healthcare, need to be open to change...Read more