As part of its care-integration service and education programme 'Key Accelerators for Integrated Working', HCS, a subsidiary of HFMA, is offering a series of six free webinars. Targeted at CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CCG board members, clinical directors and other front line clinical champions, this series of webinars provides an overview of the six key accelerators necessary to establish and sustain an integrated care model.

17 October 2012, 15:00 CET
There is no doubt that we are experiencing a global healthcare crisis with costs rising uncontrollably and an aging population that is placing an increased burden on already strained healthcare systems. Remote monitoring solutions have the potential to alleviate this burden by allowing providers to monitor patients remotely and empowering patients to better manage their own health.

14 - 17 November 2012, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The 'personalisation' in medical technology will be impressively showcased by more than 4,500 exhibitors at the world's biggest medical trade fair MEDICA 2012 in Düsseldorf and at the parallel fair COMPAMED 2012, the leading international market platform for suppliers in the medical technology industry (over 600 exhibitors).

10 - 12 April 2013, Luxexpo, Luxembourg.
Med-e-Tel encourages healthcare providers, medical practitioners, nursing professionals, government officials, researchers, educators, and industry representatives to submit presentation proposals for the Med-e-Tel 2013 conference program.

20 September 2012, 15.00 CET / 14.00 UK
Around the world, telemedicine and telecare, are key healthcare technology trends. There is a current focus on concepts such as self monitoring and patient empowerment. Denmark is one of the leading countries in this field. In recent years, there have been a number of projects aimed at assessing the benefits of using these kinds of technologies within hospital and homecare environments.

22 - 23 October 2012, Athens, Greece.
Cancer is a natural phenomenon and as such it should be amenable to mathematical and computational description. Clinically driven complex multiscale cancer models can produce rather realistic spatio-temporal simulations of concrete clinical interventions such as radio-chemotherapy applied to individual patients.

The finalists have been announced for the EHI Awards 2012 in association with BT. The 53 finalists in 11 categories showcase some of the best work being done in healthcare IT in the UK, having impressed a judging panel headed by outgoing head of NHS Informatics Katie Davies at a judging day in Reading last month.