Education

ITeG 2006

This year's International Forum for Healthcare IT (ITeG 2006),held in May/June, has put this event firmly on the healthcare industry calendar.

“The certification offered by the academy and the Healthcare Academy of Styria/Academy of the Austrian Care Association” is based on paragraphs 63 and 64 of the Austrian Healthcare Act, under which healthcare professionals are required to expand the knowledge they acquired during training at least every five years, through seminars that cover a minimum of 40 hours (para. 63 Abs. (1) S. 2.…

Brunel University offers unique Public Health Doctorate

UK - Brunel University is to provide a new three-year course offering a Doctorate in Public Health. The doctorate course, which will commence in October this year, is unique because it is cross-disciplinary, involving internationally recognised academics in medical anthropology, biostatistics, health economics, epidemiology, environmental sciences, health promotion, health services research,…

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Diabetes-Nanny

About 25,000 German children are diabetic, and numbers are increasing rapidly. Specialists in childhood diabetes gathered at a meeting held by the Dianino Foundation during the 41st Annual Meeting of German Diabetes Society (DDG), to discuss `Diabetes-Nanni´, a programme in which female diabetes advisers receive additional psychology training to care for diabetes-affected families in their homes.…

Stenting: Dynamic growth continues

Paris, France - The explosive growth in demand for drug eluting stents has shaped a market worth more than six billion euros annually.

SCAR is now SIIM

The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) has undergone a name change. SCAR is now the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).

The globalisation of healthcare

The enhanced availability of information and communication via the internet, are leading to a growing international trade in healthcare services.

The 1st International High Tech in Medicine congress

Prevention is better than cure - use the technology! A report from the 1st International High Tech in Medicine congress.

The Nations Healthcareer Alumni Meeting

If you ever thought that quality topics and certification issues might be boring, stressful or even harmful for any organisation, being in Frankfurt for this meeting (29 October) would have taught you otherwise.

Global healthcare report identifies best practices

Health organisations and governments should seek solutions beyond their own borders.

OPINION

Across Europe there are different answers to the question of who should manage intensive care. In Germany the issue is linked to a discussion on which medical field could claim surgical intensive care for itself.

ECR 2007

Science and culture: between tradition and modernity. Interview with Christian Herold, Head of the Clinical Department for Radiodiagnostics at the General Hospital Vienna, Austria.

Controversy

The question of who should manage intensive care was hotly debated at the 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (GSTCVS); not always essentially, frequently aggressively, sometimes even insulting says EH Correspondent Holger Zorn

Life-long learning

The case for structured training, board certification and revalidation*

Firemen to treat emergency cardiac cases

UK - Fire-fighters are being trained to assess possible cardiac patients in emergencies, and to use automatic defibrillators and oxygen therapy.

Decade of IT under-funding in the USA

The destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina was felt so strongly at HIMSS '06, the annual meeting of North America's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which drew over 24,500 healthcare IT professionals and hospital executives to San Diego in February, that the Society decided to hold its 2007 meeting in New Orleans to bring dollars to the city's damaged economy.