Health care systems events (35)

health 2.0 is fundamentally about creating appropriate consumer and professional content using search, communities and tools, and using those tools to enhance the patient-physician relationship. The phenomenon has exploded in importance in the USA in the last three years, and we’ve had many requests to discuss and demonstrate health 2.0 in Europe. The time is right! So we’re coming...

By improving the efficiency and quality of health care services, electronic health records (EHRs) have been hailed as the promising new component of America?s future health care industry. However, due to cost and other perceived implementation obstacles, the overall impact of EHRs on the health delivery system has been muted, and the new technology can...

The use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in healthcare Services is the main mechanism to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Nowadays ICTs are being developed to achieve the following objectives: - To integrate heterogeneous systems; - To develop frameworks to make all data meaningful, accessible and available everywhere and permanently; - To develop...

Recently, there has been a disturbing increase in the number of natural disasters affecting millions of people, destroying property and resulting in loss of human life. These events include major flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes and many others.Today the world faces unparalleled threats from humanmade disasters that can be attributed to failure of industrial and energy installations as...

The International Council on Medical and care Compunetics (ICMCC) intents to combine in this event ontology-driven health information system design for advanced interoperability with the paradigm change towards pervasive person-centric care including prevention, home care and wellness, together forming adaptive distributed health information systems...

Leveraging Federal Stimulus Funding for healthcare IT InnovationsIt?s one thing to request stimulus funding. It?s another thing to know how to use it. It?s because of this challenge and the unique collaboration opportunities between a health care organization?s academia and operational function that The Ohio State University Medical Center?s Center for IT Innovations in...

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies AICT2009 invites high-quality recent research results in the areas of Information and Communication ICT in Emergency services and disaster recovery, ICT in Education and businesses, ICT in Research, ICT in security, ICT in health care services and bio-informatics, Home and...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Affective Computing Bioinformatics Clinical Problems and Applications Cognitive Informatics Confidentiality and Data Security Critical care Management Decision Support systems Dental Informatics Design and Development Methodologies for healthcare IT Development of Assistive...

In-theatre healthcare has never been so effective in saving soldiers lives. The real challenge that faces a medical soldier in theatre is choosing technology that maximises that care and using it to its full potential. Making the correct decision and learning essential skills will improve quality of care, reduce medical errors and prevent deaths. Military health...

1st International Conference on health systems Management PRESENTATION: The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the most prestigious Mexican institutions and academic tradition in our country. With a history of more than 450 years, is to provide higher education to train professionals, researchers, academics and technicians useful to society, and to extend as widely...