1. Top Articles - 2009
Top Articles by months (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December).
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2. eHealth 2009 Conference Declaration
The Prague Declaration has been prepared in cooperation with the EU Member States and commented within the i2010 Subgroup on eHealth. As the conference is not intended for the EU Member States only, the Czech Presidency has offered to the other countries participating in the conference the possibility to adopt this Declaration.
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3. European eHealth Services Standard for Cross-Border Healthcare Provision Agreed
Two European projects developing IT-based services for cross-border healthcare provision, TEN4Health and NetC@rds, have agreed on a common European web service specification supporting standardised messaging to link hospitals and other health care providers with health insurance organisations and with national healthcare IT infrastructure.
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4. eHealth 2009 - eHealth for Individuals, Society and Economy
From 18 to 20 February 2009 the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic in cooperation with the European Commission is organizing a ministerial Conference "eHealth for Individuals, Society and Economy". High-level eHealth conferences organized by the presiding countries since 2003 represent important annual milestones in this specific field. The Czech Republic therefore plans to carry on the tradition and host this Conference in Prague as a part of its presidency in the first half of 2009.
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5. Top 20 eHealth News Articles of the 2008 Year
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:
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6. New GE eHealth Business Better Connects Patients, Hospitals, Doctors to Critical Information
GE Healthcare announced the launch of eHealth, a new business unit offering enhanced connectivity to clinicians and patients designed with data privacy and security features to enable health information sharing that can help increase efficiency, reduce error and improve health outcomes.
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7. Call for Papers: World of Health IT 2010 Conference and Exhibition
Designed to be dynamic and interactive, The World of Health IT 2010 Conference Programme will engage participants in thought-provoking debates & discussion panels. The parallel sessions are scheduled to last one and a half hour and will offer attendees various perspectives on the topics.
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8. TeleHealth 2009: New Impetus for Telemedicine
The latest eHealth solutions will be on display during CeBIT from 3 to 8 March in Hall 9. One of the focal topics will involve the use of telemedicine for the support and treatment of chronically ill patients. The demographic shift continues unabated, as the population continues to age and the incidence of chronic illness increases.
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9. Intelligent Clothing - the future of fashion never looked so good
Multidisciplinary research in nanotechnology-based solutions, new functionalisation techniques, knowledge-based processes including bioprocesses, novel fibres and composites-based innovative products, biomedical sensors, microelectronics, mobile communication and telemedicine has led to the development of new textile products and markets characterised by high added-value and growth potential.
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10. Philips Healthcare Business Showed Positive Growth in 2008
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) has published its Annual Report for 2008. In 2008, Philips Healthcare's sales amounted to EUR 7,649 million, 15% higher than in 2007 on a nominal basis, largely thanks to the contributions from acquired companies, notably Respironics. Excluding the 14% positive impact of portfolio changes and the 5% unfavorable impact of currency effects, comparable sales grew 6%.
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11. Fresenius Medical Care's eHealth Congress
The opportunities and limitations of IT applications in health care - this is the theme of the eHealth Congress on March 19th and 20th in Bad Homburg which will include high caliber speakers. Fresenius Medical Care, the world's largest provider of products and services for individuals undergoing dialysis because of chronic kidney failure, has invited a number of high-profile experts to address current questions and issues involving health care IT.
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12. GE and Intel Invest $250 million in New Market Opportunity
GE (NYSE:GE) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) announced an alliance to market and develop home-based health technologies that will help seniors live independently and patients with chronic conditions manage their care from the comfort of their home or wherever they choose.
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13. Siemens, SAP, and T-Systems in Austria Intensify their Cooperation for the Global Healthcare Market
Presumably effective April 1, 2009, Siemens Medical Solutions GSD GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Healthcare Sector, will take over all use and exploitation rights to the software i.s.h.med, which are today held by T-Systems in Austria. The transfer is subject to customary closing conditions. In addition, Siemens, SAP, and T-Systems Austria plan to intensify their existing cooperation.
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14. eHealth in Action Good Practice in European Countries
Good eHealth - Exchange of Good Practices in eHealth - is a three-year study (2006-2008) funded under the former Modinis programme by the Directorate-General Information Society and Media. This report presents case studies from 30 European countries for which validated information was available to the project by the end of November 2008.
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15. Patient Centered Medical Home Can Change the Way Care is Delivered
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced the findings of a major healthcare study that underscores the critical need for a new model of care called the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). The new study, "Patient Centered Medical Home: What, Why and How?", identifies the PCMH as a viable foundation for the reform of today's unsustainable healthcare system because it is committed to primary-care based, coordinated, proactive, preventive, acute, chronic, long-term and end-of-life care.
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16. Close to the User: User Centered Design Improves Workflows in Radiology
The software developers at Siemens Healthcare have come up with something special for customers employing Siemens PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information System) software: Clinical staff members process their specific tasks via "role-based portals". These portal applications are tailored to the respective users and workplaces.
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17. Study on the Requirements and Options for RFID Application in Healthcare
This report provides an assessment of the main drivers, obstacles and uncertainties surrounding the deployment of RFID in healthcare in Europe. It identifies the most promising RFID applications in the healthcare delivery domain by reviewing the costs and benefits, as far as possible, and assessing enablers and obstacles to full deployment of RFID.
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18. Intel Invests $12 Million to Create Visual Computing Research Center in Europe
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is investing $12 million to create a new research center that will explore advanced graphics and visual computing technologies. The Intel® Visual Computing Institute is located at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany.
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19. 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.
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20. IBM Teams with Google and Continua Health Alliance to Move Data Into Google Health and Other PHRs
IBM (NYSE: IBM), in collaboration with Google and the Continua Health Alliance, announced new software that will enable personal medical devices used for patient monitoring, screening and routine evaluation to automatically stream data results into a patient's Google Health Account or other personal health record (PHR).
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