BERLIN, GERMANY – (HealthTech Wire / News) - HealthTech Wire, the industry’s news service, today welcomed six new members to its News Partner Network: Global E-Health Forum, OLDES, HAMAM, SmartHEALTH, Sim-e-Child and CD-MEDICS. HealthTech Wire’s News Partner Network (NPN) now includes over 25 affiliates and provides the largest European online news infrastructure for industry communications. News Partners help HealthTech Wire to spread the word about the benefits of technologies for better and more sustainable healthcare.
- HealthTech Wire’s NPN provides the largest European online news infrastructure for industry communications
- News Partners help HealthTech Wire to spread the word about the benefits of technologies for better and more sustainable healthcare.
The new members of the HealthTech Wire News Partner Network
The Global E-Health Forum (October 25-26, 2010, in Hamburg) will address the main challenges that healthcare systems are facing: demographic shifts, the impact of globalization, an increased burden of chronic diseases and expensive treatments. With cost-efficient, reliable and interconnected systems, e-health can make a significant contribution towards high-quality, sustainable healthcare. The organizers of the Global E-Health Forum - Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, IBM and European Health Telematics Association - intend to provide a cross-sector forum for representatives from hospitals and clinics, governments, health insurance organizations, service providers and the media.
The conference will feature strategy and best practice presentations by speakers from Asia, Europe, New Zealand and the U.S. The program also includes workshops, discussion forums, an exhibition and guided tours at Asklepios hospitals. The reception will be held at the U.S. Consulate General.
OLDES (European eHealth project) is working on the planning and implementation of an innovative technological system, a low-cost and easy-to-use platform that will be able to provide a wider range of services to a higher number of elderly people who tend to live alone and who, in many cases, are not supported by a “social family network” capable of assisting them.
HAMAM - Highly Accurate Breast Cancer Diagnosis (European eHealth project) - focuses on improving the early detection and accurate diagnosis of breast cancer by providing a means to seamlessly integrate the biological knowledge, available multi-modal images and patient information on a single clinical workstation.
SmartHEALTH (European eHealth project) develops and delivers the next generation of smart bio-diagnostic systems capable of full integration with healthcare systems in Europe. SmartHEALTH will enable enhanced medical diagnosis, leading to earlier and more precise results and thus contributing to a better quality of life.
Driven by key targeted applications in cancer diagnostics (breast, cervical and colorectal), the project will deliver prototype systems with the aim of moving instrumentation from the laboratory, through to portable devices localized at the “point of care”.
Sim-e-Child (European eHealth project) is developing a grid-enabled platform for large-scale simulations in paediatric cardiology, providing a collaborative environment for constructing and validating multi-scale and personalized models of a growing heart and vessels. The objective of the Sim-e-Child project is to strengthen the impact of the Health-e-Child project by creating an international simulation and validation environment for paediatric cardiology, supported by integrated data repositories. The project will advance the state-of-the-art by providing comprehensive and patient-specific models for the dynamic and longitudinal interactions occurring in the left heart, with a focus on the congenital aortic arch disease and repair.
CD-MEDICS - Coeliac Disease Management Monitoring and Diagnosis (European eHealth project). The objective of CD-MEDICS is to develop a low-cost, non-invasive and intelligent diagnosis system that can be present at the point of care, such as a doctor’s surgery, thereby benefiting patients and healthcare professionals alike. The applications of the proposed integrated microsystem and its individual modules for coeliac disease diagnosis, monitoring and management, are multiple.
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Source: HealthTech Wire
