Article of the Month!
eHealthNews.EU Portal, the first European eHealth news portal, has announced the Top 20 news articles of the 2008 year, according to the most commonly viewed pages:
1. New Online Social Network, BioMedExperts, to Improve Collaboration Among Medical Researchers
Collexis Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, today announced the debut of BioMedExperts - the first online social network of its kind to improve collaboration among researchers and therefore advance medical science.
Read more...
2. Siemens Presents the Future of Health Care at Medica 2008
At Medica 2008, which will take place in Düsseldorf from November 19 to 22, 2008, Siemens will present its complete portfolio for the health care sector. Fully integrated medical technology, from a single system to the corporate level - in the health care field this has become the standard requirement.
Read more...
3. Welcome to Google Health
Google Health Login page has been recently made public, and it is available online. This page includes a general overview regarding the speculated, global Google Health initiative. According to the Google Health login page "With Google Health, you can:
Read more...
4. BioMedExperts a Premier Online Scientific Social Network Community
Dell and Collexis Holdings, Inc., plan to launch today BioMedExperts - an innovative social networking community that will promote collaborative medical research and development. BioMedExperts will allow health care and life sciences professionals to easily connect and collaborate with each other, as well as conduct research by providing 1.4 million biomedical experts with 12 million pre-established network connections from more than 120 countries.
Read more...
5. eHealthNews.EU Portal Research Project - Invitation for Further Collaboration
This research project is addressed to all eHealthNews.EU Portal readers interested in strengthening the European eHealth domain. The proposed publication is an open invitation for further collaboration in advancing the European eHealth Research and Industrial sectors.
Read more...
6. Commission Recommendation on Cross-Border Interoperability of Electronic Health Record Systems
The Commission Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record systems (hereinafter referred to as 'the Recommendation') has been drafted as a follow-up to the Community eHealth Action Plan which, in 2004, defined interoperability of electronic health records as one of the priorities for Member States in the roadmap annexed to the Action Plan.
Read more...
7. Philips' Third Quarter Results 2008 - Healthcare Sector
Healthcare and Lighting maintained solid growth in much tougher markets, with sales up 5% and 6% respectively on a comparable basis. Commercial delivery of Philips' cutting-edge Brilliance iCT scanner continued, with recent installations in healthcare facilities in the US, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.
Read more...
8. S.O.S eHealth Initiative
The SOS project is a first step in addressing problems faced by doctors treating patients who seek health treatment when abroad. These problems include re-supplying essential medication that a patient has lost or forgotten, communicating medical situations to foreign-language doctors, diagnosing illness and prescribing proper medication with little knowledge of patient history.
Read more...
9. Google Health by Dr. Eric Schmidt at HIMSS
The keynote speech describing in details the Google Health initiative by Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Google Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition has been recently made available at the Google's official YouTube channel.
Read more...
10. Royal Philips Electronics Announced the euHeart Project
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHI) announced that it will lead a new European Union (EU) funded research project called euHeart, which is aimed at improving the diagnosis, therapy planning and treatment of cardiovascular disease - one of the biggest causes of mortality in the western world.
Read more...
11. Electronic Health Records: A Global Perspective White Paper
Healthcare information technology (IT) is a sleeping giant. Although healthcare budgets contribute to the bulk of worldwide industrialized government spending, healthcare IT lags far behind the technological capabilities of other global businesses including banking, telecommunications and the media.
Read more...
12. Open eHealth Foundation to Provide Solid Basis for Interoperability
Open eHealth Foundation announced that Agfa HealthCare, eHealth specialist InterComponentWare (ICW), and Sun Microsystems, Inc. have joined as foundation members of the new Open eHealth Foundation, an Open Source initiative that is unique in the healthcare IT arena.
Read more...
13. The 2008 Telemedicine and eHealth Conference
The Norwegian Centre for telemedicine is hosting the 2008 Telemedicine and eHealth Conference from 9 to 11 June in Tromsø, the city of the world's northernmost university. On the theme "Innovation in eHealth", the conference will be a forum for innovation brainstorming, research and exchange of ideas combined with an experience of the wild and beautiful nature north of the Arctic Circle.
Read more...
14. Microsoft Amalga for European Health Providers
Microsoft announced the European availability of Microsoft Amalga, the new unified intelligence system that allows hospital enterprises to unlock the power of all their data sitting in isolated clinical, financial and administrative solutions.
Read more...
15. The Impact of eHealth on the Quality & Safety of Healthcare
A Systemic Overview & Synthesis of the Literature
Report for the NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme
Josip Car, Ashly Black, Chantelle Anandan, Kathrin Cresswell, Claudia Pagliari, Brian McKinstry, Rob Procter, Azeem Majeed and Aziz Sheikh
Read more...
16. The First Web 2.0 Pharmaceutical News Portal
World Pharma News project is launching a Web 2.0 pharmaceutical news platform, named as well World Pharma News but with attached '.net' extension. Web 2.0 generally represents knowledge-oriented social-networking platforms focused first of all on collaborative approaches.
Read more...
17. Agfa-Gevaert Announced Second Quarter Results - HealthCare Segment
Agfa-Gevaert announced its second quarter results. Mainly due to currency effects, Group sales declined 8.1 percent to 777 million Euro. In local currency, the decline was limited to 2.6 percent.
Read more...
18. The First HL7 e-Learning Course
The HL7 e-Learning Course is fundamentally different with regard to an exposition course. It is a web-based workshop, a set of guided exercises that teachs by practice and example, not by exposition. At the end of the course, participants should:
Read more...
19. Philips Will Lead a New European Research Project - HeartCycle
Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it will lead a new European Union (EU) funded research project aimed at improving care of heart patients through the development of innovative telemonitoring solutions. Following the highly successful MyHeart project, the HeartCycle project will start on March 1, 2008, and will be one of the largest biomedical and healthcare research projects within the EU.
Read more...
20. Patient Satisfaction with Healthcare Systems: Do Different Funding Models Lead to Different Results?
A new study from Picis, the leading provider of information systems for the emergency department, operation rooms and intensive care units of hospitals, reveals perceptions of whether different healthcare funding models lead to significantly different levels of patient satisfaction.
Read more...