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Doctors 2.0 & You Announces the Exciting Master Class Agenda

4 - 5 June 2015, Paris, France.
Doctors 2.0 & You, the widely acclaimed international digital health conference in Paris, announces the 4 new master classes which are included in the first day's workshop sessions. Master Classes are characterized by their focus on a single theme under the supervision of one specialist, limited seats and maximized interactivity.

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GECAMed, First Luxembourgish Software to Obtain IHE Conformity

GECAMed, the medical office management software, developed by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and widely used by Luxembourgish healthcare professionals, has successfully passed IHE profile conformance testing.

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Carestream RIS/PACS to Improve Productivity and Quality of Patient Care at ASL di Biella, Piedmont, Italy

Carestream Health has been awarded a five-year contract for the supply of an integrated RIS/PACS system at ASL of Biella, a Trust located in Piedmont Region in northwest Italy. Biella ASL covers a wide mountain area, that includes a new hospital in Biella and further clinics around Biella and Cossato, and has a catchment area of around 180,000 people, pretty much scattered around the territory.

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eHealth Week 2015 Accenture's Program: Mastering Digital Healthcare Transformation

This year Accenture's program during eHealth Week 2015 will focus on the impact of digital disruption on healthcare, and success factors for mastering the digital-enabled change. How can IT leaders give doctors greater authority in shaping digital systems that work for (both of) them?

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Funding Opportunity: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)

Mixed consortia of robot manufacturers and research institutes have the opportunity to apply for a total funding of 1.2 million Euros in a competitive process in order to develop small-scale test series as solutions for the given challenge. AQuAS (Agència de Qualitat I Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya), a public entity of the Catalan Department of Health, and Fundació Privada Sant Antoni Abat, a non-profit private foundation managing and developing innovation and research in healthcare, have defined the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) challenge.

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d-LIVER Workshop: Improving Clinical Care and Patient Quality of Life in Advanced Liver Disease

27 May 2015, Milan, Italy.
The d-LIVER project announces a Showcase Workshop to introduce new technological solutions to improve clinical care and patient quality of life in advanced liver disease. d-LIVER has developed a home monitoring system for remote patient management and a bio-artificial liver support device.

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Coordinate My Care Selects InterSystems HealthShare to Enhance Coordination of Urgent Care Plans

InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, today announced that Coordinate My Care (CMC) has selected InterSystems to provide innovative solutions for the coordination of urgent care. Using InterSystems technology, CMC will ensure that patients with serious chronic health conditions, or those receiving palliative care, get the treatment they have personally approved in partnership with their doctors or nurses.

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MyAirCoach: Involving Patients to Develop a Mobile System to Self-manage Asthma

Despite the wide availability of asthma therapies, many people with asthma still experience lots of symptoms impacting significantly on their quality of life. In line with this year's World Asthma Day theme "You can control your asthma", myAirCoach, a leading pan-European project is recruiting patients to develop a monitoring device which

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New Gold Standard Established for Open and Reproducible Research

A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new gold standard for openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the more than 200GB of data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest results - an unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publication.

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Join the Largest eHealth Gathering of the Year

11 - 13 May 2015, Riga, Latvia.
Part of the European eHealth Community? Don't miss out on the event of the year. Join eHealth Week 2015 and embark upon three full days of exchanging knowledge and sharing best practices amongst health IT representatives of the highest level from the 28 EU Member States.

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