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6 - 8 May 2014, Berlin, Germany.
Like no other event, mHealth Summit Europe provides international thought leadership on how we can fulfil the mHealth promise. The event addresses opportunities and challenges, as well as strategies for taking mHealth from pilots to true implementation. mHealth Summit Europe brings together global leaders in government, the private sector, industry, academia, providers and not-for-profit organizations from across the mHealth ecosystem.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the Green Paper on Mobile Health (mHealth), inviting comments on the barriers and issues related to the use of mHealth. Your input will help identify the right way forward to unlock the potential of mobile health in the EU.

6 - 8 May 2014, Berlin, Germany.
As the partner country of conhIT 2014 Denmark will be represented on all three days of the event, and not only at the Industrial Fair. It will also be participating in the Congress, where Danish speakers will be holding five lectures at four sessions. On Wednesday, 7 May at 3.30 p.m. an event under the heading of "Innovation Exchange Project Pitching Contest" will be taking place.

In the digital age, healthcare, like so many other sectors, has become information-intensive. To seamlessly share this information, healthcare organizations need a solution that spans department, facility and even geographical boundaries. By bringing down the borders to interoperability, they can create opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity, decision making and patient care.

Mobile health (hereafter "mHealth") covers "medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices". It also includes applications (hereafter "apps") such as lifestyle and wellbeing apps that may connect to medical devices or sensors (e.g. bracelets or watches) as well as personal guidance systems, health information and medication reminders provided by sms and telemedicine provided wirelessly.

Health outcomes for major medical conditions requiring hospital care vary considerably between and within European countries, according to a study evaluating the performance of seven European health care systems. The EuroHOPE (European Health Care Outcomes, Performance, and Efficiency) research project compared the health outcomes during the latter part of the 2000s for acute myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, hip fracture, breast cancer and very low birth weight and very low gestational age newborn infants, as well as all-disease outcome measures.

BridgeHead Software, a leader in healthcare data management, has announced the latest release of its Healthcare Data Management (HDM) solution with a new DICOM Archive Browser (DAB) and increased Cloud support, most notably support for the open Cloud storage standard SWIFT.