7 February 2012, London, UK. This workshop will explore advances in the integration of clinical data and MRI image analysis, classification and visualisation within the concept of the Virtual Physiological Human. These are enabling the development of a multi-scale, personalized GI tract model-based diagnostic tool deployable on a cloud computing platform. Results aim to demonstrate accurate detection...

18 – 20 September 2012, London, UK. VPH2012 will be an international conference on computational biomedicine, with a clear focus on the integrative aspects of VPH. Special attention will be given to the ‘Digital Patient’ as well as ‘health forecasts’. VPH2012 aims at reaching outside of the VPH community to other equally important communities: systems biology and genomics....

The Facility Technologist: Seeing Is BelievingColumnist Tom Condon illustrates how the comic book fantasy of x-ray vision may be closer than anyone could have imagined. By Tom Condon, RPA, FMAPublished in the September 2011 issue of Today’s Facility Manager One of the more frustrating aspects of being a facility manager (fm) is that many of the most essential systems are hidden…inside walls,...

18 – 20 September 2012, London, UK. The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) will hold the second of the series of VPH Conferences. VPH2012 will be an international conference on computational biomedicine, with a clear focus on the integrative aspects of VPH. Special attention will be given to the ‘Digital Patient’ as well as ‘health forecasts’....

The Intel-GE Care Innovations™ Guide, providing in-home, next-generation telehealth monitoring for a variety of populations including the elderly and patients with chronic, long-term illness, is now available on hundreds of Windows 7 compatible devices. This enhanced virtual care coordination system is offered by Intel-GE Care Innovations™, the new joint venture from GE and Intel, which launched...

By Freddy Lykke, Managing Director, CSC Scandihealth A/S. Even its most ardent advocates would acknowledge that telemedicine still makes up a tiny proportion of overall healthcare activity worldwide. Clunky technology, cultural and organisational issues and a lack of enthusiasm – even antipathy – from clinicians have been some of the barriers to wider uptake of telemedicine solutions. ...

By Wayne Parslow, European Vice President and General Manager, Carefx. The true measure of healthcare IT is the benefit it brings to people. First and foremost that means patients, but many others too including staff, carers and even taxpayers. The advantages aren’t just the obvious and essential ones of greater speed and efficiency and lower cost: sometimes it can be a matter of life and death....

More than 100 groundbreaking information and communication technology (ICT) research projects funded by the EU are being showcased at the “ICT 2010-Digitally Driven” conference and exhibition in Brussels Expo from 27 to 29 September. The event, organised every two years by the European Commission and this year hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the EU’s Council of Ministers, brings...

Your Link to Virtual Hospital’s Wealth of Patient Information Quality health information has been the hallmark of Virtual Hospital and Virtual Children’s Hospital since the early 1990s when www.vh.org was among the first sites on the Internet.For two decades, faculty and staff from the University of Iowa’s Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and UI Hospitals and Clinics...

Realistic design prototypes have become standard decision-making tools for healthcare leaders who understand their value in an environment in which every design decision impacts the facility’s ultimate success in fulfilling the institution’s mission and goals.Increasing use of prototypes has been driven by a number of factors, including escalating construction costs, highly competitive...