Keywords: Telemedicine
03/01/2009
E-prescribing in the US
President Barack Obama has made e-prescribing an element of his plan to improve the US healthcare system …
03/01/2009
Speeding up health-care administration
Human interaction is of the utmost importance in healthcare services, but with ever-increasing demands on tight budgets, which increase pressures on staff and service levels, …
03/01/2009
TELEMEDICINE
Germany - The Barmherzigen Brüder Hospital in Regensburg, serves the populations of Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate. 20 years ago, this hospital had only three …
03/01/2009
Spring IT congresses and the economic outlook
April, the month of showers and flowers, and most importantly for those working in healthcare IT, two European congresses: ConhIT and Med-e-Tel. …
03/01/2009
Photon counting
Photo detection at low light levels where single photon absorption events are counted, according to an internationally renowned medical imaging scientist, in terms of X-ray …
02/27/2009
Growing Europe-wide impact of eHealth
The 7th European eHealth conference kicked off on Thursday, February 19,, 2009, with high-profile attendance and a strong determination to bring forward the application of eHealth …
02/12/2009
2009 TeleHealth conference program announced
At the International TeleHealth Conference (5 and 6 March) leading experts from the healthcare sector will come together in Hannover, Germany, to evaluate the latest developments …
02/03/2009
Mit IHE-Standards sparen Krankenhäuser Kosten in Millionenhöhe
Die internationale IHE-Initiative (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) setzt sich für die Integration verschiedener Informationsstandards in klinischen …
12/20/2008
Tele-oncology proves successful in Canada
An estimated 6.7 million people in developed countries were diagnosed with cancer in 2007. Delivering their care is no easy matter. Tele-oncology, the remote provision of oncology …
11/26/2008
Finding new ways of monitoring elderly patients at home
Hungary is going to start a major new collaborative research programme to transform the care of elderly citizens was announced in Hungary. A broad consortium of private and public …
11/20/2008
Call system ensures nurse response
Ascom teleCARE IP is a new generation nurse call system based on IP technology. However, using IP is not enough, Ascom Wireless Solutions points out. …
11/19/2008
MEDICA 2008 opens its doors
When from 19 to 22 November the worlds largest medical fair takes place in Dusseldorf, the entire city is in a kind of emergency state: hotels are bustin out of their seams, …
11/18/2008
MEDICA 2008 öffnet ihre Pforten
Wenn die größte Medizinmesse der Welt vom 19.-22. November in Düsseldorf Einzug hält, dann steht mal wieder die ganze Landeshauptstadt Kopf: Hotels platzen aus allen Nähten, …
11/18/2008
Med-tech industry profits are hit by the global financial crisis
The sector is clearly strained, says Joachim M. Schmitt, Managing Director and Member of Board of the German Medical Technology Association, BVMed, in Berlin. But, the good …
11/04/2008
Neues Telemedizin-Internetportal in NRW
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Telemedizin und die ZTG Zentrum für Telematik im Gesundheitswesen GmbH, haben eine engere Zusammenarbeit beschlossen. Beide Partner sind …
10/29/2008
8th Swiss eHealthcare Congress
This two-day event, held in Notwil, Switzerland, in September, hosted over 1,600 participants and 80 exhibitors, and attracted about 100 more visitors than in 2007. …
10/14/2008
Kommt jetzt die Medizin 2.0?
Die Mitwirkung der Internet-Nutzer ist - unter dem Begriff Web 2.0 zusammengefasst - bereits zum Modewort geworden. Diese Form der elektronischen Einflussnahme hat zumindest …
10/14/2008
Further increase in number of exhibitors
The COMPAMED, the leading specialist international trade fair for suppliers to the medical manufacturing market, is held parallel to the MEDICA, the world's largest medical trade …
10/14/2008
Communication is Everything
It´s MEDICA time again: A top theme is the rapidly progressing networking process of the agents in the health care system thanks to new applications, in particular in the field …
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