BERLIN, GERMANY - (HealthTech Wire / News) – HealthTech Wire, the industry’s news service, today announced a major leap forward towards strengthening its eHealth focus: the website now operates a dedicated portal for health IT at www.healthtechwire.com/it which also includes editorial content provided by Healthcare IT News – www.healthcareitnews.com/international.
- Launch of dedicated health IT Portal at www.healthtechwire.com/it .
- Healthcare IT News International (US) and selected European eHealth projects feature HealthTech Wire content on their websites.
- HC2010 (UK)now uses GoDirect news service
Healthcare IT News International is the latest organization to join HealthTech Wire’s News Partner Network (NPN) which, in recent months, has been expanded to include over 20 affiliates. News Partners support HealthTech Wire in disseminating the industry’s news. HealthTech Wire has also expanded its service offering in the UK by establishing a GoDirect channel for the recent Healthcare Computing 2010 conference & exhibition, at www.healthtechwire.com/HC.
The largest European communications network for the industry’s news
Through their News Partner Network, HealthTech Wire now provides the largest European infrastructure for health IT industry communications. This includes the German and Swiss Health IT exhibitions (conhIT and eHealthcare.ch) as well as the European conference and exhibition The World of Health IT. In addition HealthTech Wire also features a GoDirect news channel at www.healthtechwire.com/ictforhealth which is supported by the European Commission’s ICT for Health unit and geared towards increasing awareness for European eHealth projects and initiatives.
HealthTech Wire’s News Partner Network for health IT includes:
- Biomed Town – the biomedical research community
- conhIT – The German Health IT show
- EHTEL – The European Health Telematics Associations
- EUROREC – The European Health Records Institute
- Healthcare IT News International
- eHealthCare.ch – The Swiss Health IT conference & exhibition
- E-HEALTH-COM – The independent German eHealth magazine
- WCR-NEWS – The first German news portal for radiologists
- The World of Health IT – The European Health IT conference & exhibition
- Healthcare Computing - The UK event for Health IT in Birmingham
European eHealth projects, funded under the European Commission’s program for research and development, that have joined the HealthTech Wire News Partner Network, include:
“Providing professional audiences across Europe with a central, transparent and clearly positioned platform for the industry’s news is the cornerstone of HealthTech Wire’s service offering. We are honored to have received so much support for the concept in recent months – in particular because it leads to a more reader-oriented and transparent classification of content,” explains Armin Scheuer, CEO of so2say communications, the company that manages HealthTech Wire. “This ensures that readers are provided with information from different perspectives and always know the source of a news story.”
The health IT Portal on HealthTech Wire
HealthTech Wire’s Health IT portal significantly strengthens the visibility of eHealth news on the platform and improves reader guidance to relevant industry content. The health IT Portal features content from Healthcare IT News International, a major and very well established publication which is published in association with the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) of North America.
Armin Scheuer: “HealthTech Wire has set up a unique network and infrastructure for high-quality industry communications that gives readers greater choice in their professional information mix.”
The HealthTech Wire Health IT Portal at www.healthtechwire.com/it
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Source: so2say communications Ltd.
