The MovingLife project announced the launch of an online public stakeholder consultation on “Roadmaps for the widespread use and broad acceptance of mHealth solutions”. The aim of this online consultation is to collect clear and decisive evidence on the most important needs and requirements that must be satisfied in order to facilitate the deployment of mHealth solutions.

Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), in partnership with Medway Community Healthcare is a finalist in the ‘Nursing in the Community’ category of the Nursing Times Awards 2012. The winner will be announced during an awards ceremony at London’s Hilton Hotel, Park Lane on 31 October 2012.

22 – 23 October 2012, Athens, Greece.
Cancer is a natural phenomenon and as such it should be amenable to mathematical and computational description. Clinically driven complex multiscale cancer models can produce rather realistic spatio-temporal simulations of concrete clinical interventions such as radio-chemotherapy applied to individual patients.

The possibility to monitor patients and their cardiac implants such as pacemakers or defibrillators remotely has the potential to improve the efficiency of Cardiac Implant Electronic Device (CIED) therapy, and make the treatment more cost-effective. Nonetheless, to date, remote monitoring of patients is still not used widely throughout Europe.

By Neil Darvill, director of health informatics at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Setting the NHS free from paper-based systems is essential for improving healthcare. At St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals that goal is in sight. A huge digitisation project has already allowed us to consign paper hospital medical records to the bin.

Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), in partnership with Medway Community Healthcare, has been named a finalist in the ‘Best use of mobile technology’ category of the E-Health Insider (EHI) Awards 2012. This announcement follows two rounds of judging, with only the top six from the first round making it through to the final and deciding round.

Top EU businesses expect their investments in research and development to grow by an average of 4% annually over the period 2012 to 2014, according to a Commission survey of some of Europe’s companies that invest the most in R&D. The figures show the importance that these companies place on R&D as a key factor for their future growth and prosperity, despite the current economic difficulties.

Agfa HealthCare announces that it will demonstrate its cardiovascular IT solutions at the 2012 Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in Munich. Agfa HealthCare’s IMPAX cardiovascular solutions provide a patient-centric consolidation of all relevant cardiology procedures on a shared true enterprise platform, with a true clinical workflow mapping and in-depth clinical content, and with refined clinical tools.