It/Tech • healthcare-in-europe.com

Medicine and the Internet of Things

According to Gartner, the IT research and advisory company, the Internet of Things (IoT)*, excluding PCs, tablets and smartphones, will grow to 26 billion devices by 2020.

News • E-Health

24/7 On-Board Pediatric Telemedicine Service

Carestream Health announces cooperation with MSC Cruises and Italy’s Gaslini Institute in Genoa, Italy. As part of this collaborative effort, Carestream will be providing a cloud-based teleconsultation portal to enable the Institute to deliver remote diagnosis, specialist second opinions, patient monitoring and referrals wherever needed at any time.

Article • Healthcare

Small town hospital goes big on IT

Horsens Regional Hospital is a two-hour train ride from Copenhagen in the Central Region of Denmark. Disembarking at the small town’s train station nothing suggests the presence of a pioneering hospital and flagship facility of the Danish healthcare system. Then, meeting Chief Medical Officer Jørgen Schøler Kristensen and Chief Nursing Officer Inge Pia Christensen it is immediately clear:…

IBM Watson Ushers in a New Era of Data-Driven Discoveries

IBM announced significant advances in Watson's cognitive computing capabilities that are enabling researchers to accelerate the pace of scientific breakthroughs by discovering previously unknown connections in Big Data.

News • Medica

Medical app competition during Medica 2014

Developers of medical apps will have the opportunity to present their creations live at the App Competition during Medica 2014, World Forum for Medicine, to be held from November 12 – 15, 2014 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany.

When helpers need help

Violence from patients or their relatives is no longer unusual in hospitals, with A&E doctors and nurses particularly affected, as confirmed in the recent study Violence against Staff in the A&E Department.

eSMART: mobile phones help patients through chemotherapy treatment

Coping with the side effects of chemotherapy treatment is challenging for people with cancer. When fatigued or nauseous, it is not easy to assess if these conditions are acceptable treatment side effects or require medical assistance.

Underway: The Eurosafe Imaging Campaign

It was long overdue: Seven years after the arrival of the USA’s Image Wisely and Image Gently Campaigns, a European campaign for greater radiation protection in diagnostic and interventional imaging has arrived.

CE Mark for NilRead Diagnostic Zero-Footprint Medical Image Viewer

Claron Technology, the leader in universal medical imaging viewers, announces that it has been awarded the CE mark for its NilRead zero-footprint viewer for the diagnostic interpretation of medical images.

Carestream connects UK hospitals

When it comes to storing images PACS remains king across the industry, but increasingly vendor-neutral archives (VNAs), particularly cloud-based examples, are gaining market share fast due to their ability to bring significant financial, productivity and clinical quality benefits.

Intelligent virtual assistants

Starting in the mid-1990’s, PACS technology revolutionised radiology departments. Now, some 20 years later, intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) technology is expected to do the same.

Vidyo enhances ETIAM-Connect with HD Video Conferencing

Fast, secure telemedicine solution delivers HD visual teleconsultation to hundreds of healthcare organizations worldwide

GE unveils Blueprint for upgraded DoseWatch

To engage more fully with health systems to reduce average patient exposure to radiation, GE Healthcare has launched a full campaign called Blueprint for Low Dose that is built around DoseWatch, the industry-leading dose monitoring software.

Scaling up the power of connected health

Today it is not difficult to wire a bathroom weight scale so it can talk to a smartphone. What becomes more interesting is to make sense of what they are saying.

Tailored medical weighing systems and scales

The PC software seca emr flash 101 transmits measurements from seca 360° wireless products to an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system.

Biometric ID helps New Guinea medical clinic manage records and services

Customized patient identification solution for the New Tribes Mission Medical Clinic in Papua New Guinea using the Fulcrum Biometric Framework (FbF®) Demographica application and the Lumidigm M-Series multispectral fingerprint reader to capture and identify fingerprints.

Creating the essential link

While clinical labs and lab IT solutions appear to be able to meet current requirements, biobanking presents a whole new world of challenges to data flows and IT systems. Report: Michael Reiter

Article • syngo.plaza VB10

The next level of reading efficiency

At healthcare facilities across the globe, the Siemens PACS syngo.plaza delivers high-throughput reading, easy-to-manage IT, and the ultimate potential of the syngo platform.

News • Data Management

Health Information Exchange Systems are Critical to Integration of Healthcare Services

Health information technology providers must develop dynamic and easy-to-install information systems to dispel client concerns about interoperability and compatibility.

IHE-Europe takes on the world in Istanbul

The movement for interoperability among health information devices and systems has spread across Europe reaching Turkey, which will be host to the European IHE Connectathon in Istanbul this April

Italian patients control their own diagnostic images and data

No image left behind

By creating a single interface with the patient medical record, Agfa HealthCare’s ICIS can bring any type of image and linked meta-data into a patient’s record to be viewed and retrieved.