22 - 25 Septemebr 2015, Ghent, Belgium.
MedeAnalytics, a pioneer in healthcare analytics, has announced the appointment of Professor Simon Jones as Director and Chief Data Scientist. One of the leading authorities on healthcare intelligence, Professor Jones' mission is to help make predictive and preventative care a reality.
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU research and innovation programme ever. It will lead to more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market. Almost €80 billion of funding is available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) - in addition to the private and national public investment that this money will attract.
Jianqing Bennett has been appointed President of Carestream's Digital Medical Solutions business unit effective immediately. In this role, she will lead a global business comprised of healthcare information solutions and X-ray & ultrasound imaging systems, and will have responsibility for research and development, manufacturing, marketing, sales and service.
CompuGroup Medical AG today presented the financial report for the second quarter of 2015. The company, one of the leading global providers of eHealth solutions, achieved revenue of EUR 138 million, compared to EUR 126 million in the second quarter 2014. This represents an increase of 9 percent, of which 4 percent is organic growth.
Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, has announced a new partnership with the Federación Nacional de Clínicas Privadas (FNCP), an organization representing over 550 of the private healthcare institutions in Spain.
Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement for the first Enterprise Imaging platform to be implemented in the UK with City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. The agreement includes the integration and installation of the Enterprise Imaging platform - the first in the UK - as well as an upgrade of the Trust's existing PACS solution.
Comtact Healthcare, a leading provider in mobile digital healthcare and informatics solutions has been selected by respiratory experts at Southampton Children’s Hospital to provide clinicians with a leading-edge mobile device solution at the point of care.
Evidence from Sixth Framework Programme Science and Society (S&S) and Seventh Framework Programme Science in Society (SiS) programmes shows that more consistent policy development in Science and Technology requires systematic cooperation and a shared knowledge base on which European, national and sub-national research and innovation policy decisions can be drawn from.
The EU funded GET project delivers four high-impact services to digital Health SMEs and entrepreneurs in order to boost their growth and move them to the next level of competitiveness. The Get Funded service is designed for SMEs looking for follow up funding (typically between 0.5-2M€) and provides them with training, resources and networking opportunities with investors at the European level.