Feb 26, 2010 – February 28th 2010, Milford, IA – Thinix, a leading developer of touchscreen user interface technology is pleased to announce that two of their new software products will be on display at HIMSS. HIMSS10 is March 1-4 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA, USA. HIMSS is one [...]

Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 16, 2010 — Partners Harvard Medical International (PHMI) has signed agreements with two Saudi Arabian institutions that are establishing new medical schools.
Dr. Andrew JeonThe Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah and the Al-Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh have both engaged PHMI to assist with the development of medical [...]

Boston University Dental Health Center – Dubai, a member of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Academic Medical Center (AMC), today announced its participation at the Dental Fair 2010.
Organized by the Higher Colleges of Technology Sharjah Women’s College at its campus from 24 – 25 February, the event provided a perfect platform to discuss key [...]

Dubai: Abu Dhabi’s implementation of compulsory health insurance in 2006 has left Dubai lagging behind in its health insurance reforms.
Dubai had planned to follow in the footsteps of Abu Dhabi’s mandatory health care insurance scheme but, owing to a change in the financial climate, the scheme was suspended, leaving a large percentage of low-income foreign [...]

Dr. Nayef Al Fayez, Jordanian Minister of Health, today visited the premises of Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), a member of TECOM Investments.
Abdullatif AlMulla, Group Chief Executive Officer of TECOM Investments, and Dr. Abdulkareem Sultan Al Olama, Vice-President of the Centre for Healthcare Planning and Quality (CPQ) at DHCC, received the Jordanian minister and the accompanying [...]

Siemens Health-care has introduced an automated breast volume scanner (ABVS) at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre in Mumbai. The ABVS automatically acquires volume images of the breast, helping in comprehensive screening of breast using ultrasound.
Acuson S2000, an ultrasound system by Siemens Healthcare uses the technology of ABVS, which comfortably images patients with dense breast tissue [...]

ATLANTA, Feb 28, 2010 This week in Atlanta, healthymagination takes center stage as GE Healthcare uses its technology expo to demonstrate how it will affect cost, quality and access in healthcare systems across the world. At the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the company will showcase new innovations and achievements [...]

Launched in January 2007, UKPMC is a free-to-access digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical and life sciences research. As of February 2010, it holds over 1.7 million full text articles. The ambition of the repository is to become the information resource of choice for the UK biomedical and health research communities and eventually to expand [...]

Taconic, a leading provider of life sciences solutions to researchers worldwide, announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Bio-Medical Science Co., Ltd. (BMS) of Seoul, Korea for the purpose of providing life science researchers in Korea with improved access to the rodent models and associated services that are vital to their work.
Taconic’s laboratory research [...]

DOHA: All clinics in Qatar run by general practitioners will be phased out in three years, a senior official of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) said yesterday.
A specialist degree has been made mandatory for physicians operating such facilities. General practitioners running clinics will be given three years’ time to upgrade their status to that [...]

Centre for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) has come up with a new surveillance system to track adverse reactions to blood transfusions.The Hemovigilance Module part of CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network is an Internet-based surveillance system that allows CDC and health care providers to track and analyze health care-related infection information. CDC developed the system with [...]

GE Healthcare, Intel Corporation and Mayo Clinic are committed to develop a new patient centred delivery care model for patients. Mayo Clinic will conduct a research to determine if home monitoring of patients with chronic diseases can be done using Intel’s remote patient monitoring technology. This will reduce hospitalisations and emergency department visits. With the [...]

The pharmaceutical sector of GCC will touch US$ 7.6 Billion by 2014 and it will grow to US$ 9.6 Billion by 2019 as per the growth trends. Saudi Arabia will contribute the largest value in terms of market share from 49% of the total market in both 2014 and 2019.
The UAE follows closely behind, contributing [...]

Management Information system (MIS) has been defined by Weitkamp in his book  ‘ Integrated Health Systems- logic, information and strategy- A Master’s Paper’ as ‘computer or linked computer systems designed to inform and enhance management decision making by providing integrated data from various and often distributed pertinent sources’. In a chapter on ‘Portable Health Administration’ [...]

The Stimulus Bill of President Obama includes $ 19.2 billion for meaningful use of Health IT by hospital systems in United States. In order to take advantage of this financial incentive, hospitals have started investing their own money for creation and use of electronic health records that will eventually improve the quality, efficiency and safety [...]