Conference Report

Join  the 4th Mobile and Wearable Technology: Healthcare 2014 Conference which will take place from 3 – 4 April 2014 in Singapore. This is an exclusive platform for visionary healthcare practitioners, leaders, physicians, entrepreneurs, investors and innovators responsible for shaping what’s possible for future health care to get the latest developments and assess its impacts on healthcare delivery. What are the significant innovations and what can be expected in the next generation of wearables? What are the adoption challenges?To register, e-mail merilynn@magenta-global.com.sg or call +65 6391 ... Read more

Date: March 18th 2014 Location; The Dorchester, London Should we be reinventing business models? Entering new markets? Employing more innovative technologies? And what about the consideration of big data? How are changes to national healthcare, ... Read more

Write-up: There has been remarkable growth in the healthcare and hospital industry in South East Asia, which has lead to great opportunities in the hospital and supply chain management. Hospital Management Senate aims to appeal hospital operators ... Read more

During the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) annually held in Vienna, Austria, radiologists and retailers alike met together in a four-day conference to discuss and witness the innovations of the Radiology world. Siemens CT was the main attraction of the four-day conference as it stationed and occupied most of its time in the main booth and also contributed to joint seminars, hands-on workshops, and the CARE Right Lounge; as the event welcomed over 20,000 guests. “I think the ECR in one of the most important radiology and also medical conferences in the world. You have the opportunity to meet fellow colleagues. You have the opportunity to present yourself in terms of research presentations, overview talks; you get to know the companies and see what new developments in the field and you also get future ideas of what will be the next hot topic in radiology,” said Siemens representative Marco Das, MD. The head booth showcased syngo.via VA 20 workstations, multitouch programs for the virtual innovation of Siemens CT products, and replicas of the Stellar Detector and the SOMATOM Perspective in its 64-slice design, which incidentally was launched to European markets at the ECR. Furthermore, Siemens pronounced that the renowned FAST CARE technology was now accessible for the SOMATOM Perspective and the SOMATOM Emotion. The CARE Right Lounge served as a hub, where conference attendees got to learn more about CARE Right. Predicated on the question “is 1 mSv the right dose for every patient?” CARE Right is a plan that centers on supplying the appropriate technology, settings, and tools in order to attain the ultimate balance between radiation dose and image quality. Apart from the SOMATOM Perspective, the Stellar Detector and the syngo.via applications were also great crowd pleasers. Not only was the appearance of Siemens CT a smash hit at this year’s conference, which received 20,071 visitors, but also logged several hand-on workshops that were filled to the very brim with eager participants, and was capped off by a scintillating performance by Das, at the Face-Off session, in which six retailers had to solve two difficult cases. “I was presenting for Siemens and I think syngo.via software did a very good job to solve the clinical cases in a decent amount of time,” said ... Read more

The Economist Events’ are holding their third annual European health care event on June 20th 2013 to find out.  It will look at how we can refocus the health care sector away from care and towards prevention – away from sickness, towards health. Key speakers leading the debate include: •    Event Chair: Charlotte Howard, Healthcare Correspondent, The Economist •    Despina Spanou, Director for Consumer Affairs, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers, European Commission •    Rafael Bengoa, Director, Deusto Business School Health; advisor to Barack Obama on healthcare reform •    Oleg Chestnov, Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization •    Oliver Harrison, Head of Public Health, Government of Abu Dhabi •    Jean-Michel Borys, Director, EPODE European Network •    IIona Kickbusch, Director Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute •    Peter Ohnemus, Founder, dacadoo •    Sir Muir Gray, Director, Better Value Healthcare •    Colin Hill, President and Chief Executive Officer, GNS Healthcare •    Derek Yach, Senior Vice-president, Vitality Group •    Patrick Flochel, Global Pharmaceutical Sector Leader, Ernst & Young Be amongst over 250 industry Chief Executive Officers, Policy-makers, Healthcare Administrators at this years summit. This is your opportunity to ensure that you are developing the right strategic plan for your organisation. Debate with, challenge and question those who are leading the industry. Health Imaging Hub users receive 20% discount. Use the discount code HIH/DC when registering online. ... Read more

Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2013 - Montage Healthcare Solutions will demonstrate the latest enhancements totheirsearch-driven radiology business intelligence and clinical quality analytics tools, at the upcoming SIIM Annual Meeting, the premier gathering of imaging informatics professionals. The latest version of Montage Search and Analytics™includes numerous usability and performance enhancements, anda new clinical quality analytics package.Works-in-progress that will also be shownto gather user feedback, include Montage Signal,™ and a new Radiology Resident dashboard.  Montage Signal,™first shown as a prototype at RSNA 2012, flags report inconsistencies that degrade clinical quality and impact reimbursement.The new resident dashboard helps Residency Program Directors and Radiology Residents ensure case volumes meet minimum requirements that are now mandated by the ACGME Resident Review Committee. The unique search-driven approach taken by Montage Healthcare Solutionsincorporates the power and simplicity of today’s search and natural language processing technologies to quickly identify and analyzevaluable clinical, and operational information in the radiologist report. Decision makers are able to quickly identify actionable information, eliminating delays associated withscouring clinical files or waiting for custom reports.Research and academic organizations will also appreciate how Montage Search and Analytics speeds identification of research populations and development of teaching files. In the face of increasing legislative challenges, the Radiology communitymust adopt tools that enable monitoring ofkey performance indicators.“Access to meaningful, and historically inaccessible, unstructured informationenables practice leadersto maximize timespentacting on information, rather than collectingit,” says William Boonn, MD, President of Montage Healthcare Solutions. “We provide radiologists an optimized clinical QC listand administrators ahistorical trend dashboard showing the big picture, all in a single application”.Much the way search technology unlocked the Internet, Montage Search and Analytics unlocks Radiology department unstructured information and helps answer clinical and operational questions that were previously impractical to ask. Gain additional insights at SIIM by attending the Applied Learning Vendor Tie-in Session: Innovation of Analytics, Saturday, June 8, 2013, 9:45am, Texas Ballroom B. William Boonn, MD, President of Montage Healthcare, will present on the vendor panel.Schedule a visitwithMontage Healthcare Solutions,at the SIIMAnnual Meeting; Booth 320. About Montage Healthcare Solutions Montage Search and Analytics™is a leading software solution for healthcare data mining and performance measurement in Radiology. Montage technology enables practice leaders, clinicians, researchers, and educators to search the radiology information system (RIS) and electronic medical record (EMR) for key business and clinical data. In addition, proprietary data mining techniques allow for sophisticated and customizable marketing, quality, business, and billing/coding analytics, which can measure and enhance business performance and provide clinical decision ... Read more

April 2 to 4,2013, Shanghai Medical & Healthcare Tourism Conference  held in Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center?sponsored by the Shanghai International Medical Exchange Center, attracted a large number of medical institutions exhibitors to promote communication and cooperation between the medical industry organizations and  jointly plan the development of the medical tourism industry. Medical tourism is based on a rebound health care services in the price among different countries and regions, to transnational migratory medical practices. In fact, medical tourism in foreign countries flourish. McKinsey  Company data shows that in 2004 the global medical tourism industry development scale of 400 billion, in 2012 the medical tourism industry scale would reach 100 billion, an annual growth rate of 10% -15%, and will continue to grow. Germany, Hungary, Singapore, India, Thailand and other countries have already benefited from  the medical tourism. Medical tourism is an important part of high-end medical industry, how to plan to develop medical tourism industry in shanghai? In fact, the policy of Shanghai in recent years is changed and dedicated to open the door, and laid the foundation for the development of the medical tourism industry. In February 2012, the Shanghai municipal government issued a "the Shanghai medical institutions set planning (2011-2015)". "Plan" put forward to further develop Private capital to open hosiptals, focus on improving the quality and scale of the social construction of promoting multiculturalism medical pattern formed to accelerate the development of modern medical services, underlines the level of medical and specialty mode. Then in May, the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau and other departments jointly issued a number of opinions "on the promotion of the construction and development of medical institutions in the city's International Medical Zone. "Opinions" adhere to the development of high-end medical services, International Medical Park to promote the high-end, special medical services as the starting point, vigorously develop modern medical services. on the eve of the healthcare tourism conference, praised the industry's massive "Shanghai 28" announcement. Further promote the development of the city's social medical institutions on the implementation of views "28 measures to promote the development of the social construction of. Which proposed to the Shanghai International Medical Zone and Shanghai New Hongqiao International Medical Center as the main platform to encourage and attract social capital in various forms organized with a certain scale, with advanced technology, quality service and advanced management features of high-end medical institutions and characteristics of specialist medical institutions. On the medical health tourism conference, Ministry of health is also clearly stated the Shanghai International Medical Park, Shanghai New Hongqiao International Medical Center as two core platform, the development of international tourism medical and other high-end medical. "Our way of thinking is very clear and positioning on the market, high-end, international, intensive  to construct Shanghai International Medical Zone and Shanghai New Hongqiao International Medical Center." Deputy inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, Shanghai Medical Reform Office deputy director –Mr Xu su says. Shanghai New Hongqiao International Medical Center, medical tourism is the center of one of the core industries. Mr xu su said in future the centre of core industries included disease treatment, international telemedicine, medical tourism, disease prevention, health rehabilitation. "Vice executive president Jiquan Lou from Shanghai Pudong Institute for Health Development said following the right path for the development of medical tourism, medical tourism planning and implementation path divided into three stages: the first stageis to do the market demand research and resources promotion, packaging, design, travel medical products. The second stage is the development of medical tourism supporting policies and facilities to train professional reception team. The third stage is to establish the medical tourism industry development fund and the relevant laws and regulations and norms. Turning to medical institutions, service quality and the current situation, committee member of the State Council Expert Advisory Committee and JCI China Chief Officer--- Professor Zhiwu Fang believes that should improve the quality of medical institutions with international standards, professional hospital management is the key. Insiders pointed out that no mature, internationally recognized hospitals qualification will affect China's medical tourism industry to attract overseas ... Read more

Clinical trials are being conducted globally however outsourcing them to emerging economies like India provides competitive advantages in terms of lower operational costs and faster conduction of clinical trials.India has a steady supply of ... Read more

Summary: Healthcare IT India Summit brought to you by Fleming Gulf conferences, kick started on a soaring note on April 22nd 2013 in Taj Krishna, Hyderabad. The objective of this summit is aimed at highlighting the advantages of integrating Healthcare with Information Technology to make way for the future of Healthcare management system. India - Hyderabad, 22nd April, 2013: Healthcare IT India Summit brought to you by Fleming Gulf conferences, kick started on a soaring note on April 22nd in Taj Krishna, Hyderabad. The objective of this summit is aimed at highlighting the advantages of integrating Healthcare with Information Technology to make way for the future of Healthcare management system. Fleming Gulf Conferences have carefully selected top industry experts to speak at this event, thus giving the attending delegates an opportunity to hear first-hand experience from industry leaders and share solutions for overcoming the latest challenges in the field of Healthcare Informatics. The opening remarks were delivered by Sid Nair, Dell Services Vice President & Global General Manager- Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS). The premise for session one was Efficient Healthcare IT Ecosystems.  Andrew W. Litt, Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences Chief Medical Officer shared his views on Information Driven Healthcare. This was followed by an engrossing talk on the Relevance of Health Informatics Standards in the Indian Scenario by Baljit Singh Bedi, CDAC, TSI, IAMI & Medical Electronics & Telemedicine Div. Dept. of IT, MCIT, Govt. of India. The action packed day also witnessed panel discussion on The Evolution of Pharmacy Management in India. Sanjeev, Meddiff Technologies Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Carlos Royo, GMV Director, eHealth Business Development Director, UK, Sampath Kumar, Sankara Nethralaya Chief Information Officer Syam S Adusumilli, UnitedHealth Group – Global Sourcing & Delivery (GSD)Head – Consulting, Products and Solutions were the key speakers for day one. The second day of the summit will commence with insightful presentations on intriguing subjects like M Health, Informatics in General Operations, Scope for stake holders in E-health, to name a few. Aliasgar Bohari, Zulekha Hospitals, Director, Information Technology, Dr. Thanga Prabhu GE Healthcare & IAMI are among the expert speakers for the concluding day for the conference.. Through thought provoking case study presentations, interactive panel discussions and on-sight networking, Fleming Gulf conferences will enable the delegates to understand the best viable alternative model for delivering medical care and expertise. The summit is brought to you by DELL (Platinum Sponsor) and HTC Global Services, UnitedHealth Group and GMV – innovating solutions (Bronze sponsors) along with GE Healthcare (Supporting Partner). Express Healthcare is the official media partner for this summit, Mercom Capital Group, Modern Medicare, Healthcare Executive, Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management, Medgate Today, medeCure are amongst other media partners for the event. About Fleming Gulf Conferences Founded in 2005, Fleming Gulf is young, dynamic and has fast become one of the leading providers of business intelligence through industry specific conferences, webinars and skills enhancement training courses. Our goal is to link professionals and provide them with commercial acumen, business investment contacts and a world of opportunities. Our reach is global-spanning serving organisations in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and as far as Latin America. Fleming Gulf delivers the most comprehensive business events by leveraging our network of industry influencers with specialist knowledge to provide organisations the winning edge that makes a difference in their decision making in today's competitive business landscape. Through our live and on-demand webinars, class-sized intensive certification courses, highly focused niche conferences and large scale summits, Fleming Gulf has brought together nearly 100,000 professionals representing industries including HSE, oil & gas, utilities, life sciences, mining, construction, HR, transport & logistics, finance, telecom & IT, aviation and marketing. We are committed to provide our partners - speakers, delegates, exhibitors, sponsors and supporters - a unique learning experience where they can find stimulating topics, engaging conversations and meet the biggest names within their ... Read more

International Conference on Radiology and Imaging is scheduled to be held during August 14-16, 2013 at Chicago Northshore,USA. Radiology-2013 is an event that brings together active researchers, intellectuals, academicians, students, contributors ... Read more

Indian Health Summit is a knowledge platform for rich insights from some of India’s leading healthcare companies and investors in creating successful organizations. With a dedicated focus on expansion through PE funding, the event will witness participation from key decision makers from some of the leading PE/VC funds actively investing into the healthcare space. The Indian Health Summit is a thought-leadership event focused exclusively on CXO's in the healthcare domain. The event is formulated in a way to encourage discussions, knowledge-sharing and peer-to-peer networking. for more information about the site please visit that ... Read more

The Healthcare IT India Summit will focus on integrating Healthcare with Information Technology to make way for the future of Healthcare management system. This summit will focus on amalgamation of Healthcare with the recent technological ... Read more