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Two years of successful groundwork, now headed towards the future: IHE Suisse
The Swiss eHealth Summit, a HIMSS event supported by key organizations, brought together 600 leaders from hospitals, policymaking, and the industry. At this event in Berne last August, IHE Suisse organized a General Meeting; the...[more]
Standardizing Image Reconstruction for PET/CT Scanners in Clinical Trials
The National Institutes of Health / National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the U.S. has awarded a five-year research project grant to identify harmonized reconstruction parameters for each currently-produced PET/CT scanner for use in...[more]
RFID makes its way in healthcare – slowly
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and related technologies are being used in care organizations to track devices such as IV pumps, to locate patients, and in a broad spectrum of additional applications ranging from blood...[more]
Congress on Biobanking and related IT Aspects
After its inaugural congress last year, the European, Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking ESBB is joining forces with the Spanish Network „Red de Biobancos“ for an ambitious event in Granada,...[more]
NHS Informatics Provision in England Likely to be Spilt into Three
Following the publication in May 2012 of the new, and long-awaited, information strategy for the NHS in England (1), a draft of the new business plan for NHS Informatics, and an accompanying official document from the Department...[more]
New Leadership for Electronic Health Record Association
The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association, www.himssEHRA.org) is a trade association of 41 electronic health record (EHR) companies which aim to accelerate the adoption of EHRs in hospital and ambulatory...[more]
Telemedicine Improves Care for Cardiac Patients
The medical device manufacturer Sorin Group has teamed up with communications provider Orange Business Services to develop a remote follow-up tool for patients fitted with cardiac devices for the treatment of arrhythmias.The...[more]
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