Industry News
Brainlab announced the 500th sale of its ExacTrac® patient positioning system for frameless radiosurgery. The scale of uptake highlights physicians continued focus on adopting clinically proven systems for high-precision cancer treatments and...
For Dako, one of the world’s leading companies within tissue-based cancer diagnostics, it is imperative that production equipment is constantly calibrated, verified and well-documented. ISS ensures that Dako is able to keep focus on its core...
In healthcare today, change is everywhere.
An aging population, an increasingly knowledgeable consumer, a growing sophistication in technology…not to mention a wave of legislation and fiscal restraint that is redefining how...
Conference News
From April 11th-13th, TEDMED will gather 2,000 adventurous thinkers and doers, from 300 medical and nonmedical disciplines, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. For three exciting days, this uniquely diverse community explores the issues,...
Research
In a new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit on healthcare provision for an ageing population, supported by Pfizer, the overwhelming majority of health professionals surveyed (80%) express their concern about how they will be treated when...
An iPhone app that measures the user's heart rate is not only a popular feature with consumers, but it sparked an idea for a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher who is now turning smart phones, and eventually tablet devices, into...
EU News
During the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, a number of dossiers on the health area will dominate the work of the Council:
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR);
Action Programme in the Field of Health;
Amendment of the Directive on...
The European Commission recently released its revised proposal on ‘Information to Patients’ which looks at different ways of providing information on prescribed medicines and the role of the pharmaceutical industry in providing such...
National
Hospital patients in the greater Helsinki region will from 2014 be received in significantly modernised, extended and better equipped facilities thanks to an investment programme partly financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB).
The...
Management
Maastricht University, Philips and Medtronic jointly created an executive course for hospital managers addressing the need to improve entrepreneurialism in healthcare. During the course, the best Lean Sigma practices from the industry will be shared...
A recently released national survey of hospital marketers in the US revealed that they expect a dramatic increase in their use of digital media by 2013, but feel widespread uncertainty about how to enact the changeover from traditional to digital...
