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HIMSS Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit, a new, executive-level forum for education, collaboration and dialogue, opened at Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort yesterday under the patronage of Mohammed bin Hassan bin Ali, undersecretary for planning affairs at the Ministry of Health. The summit introduces and showcases the best practices related to information technology in health [...] Abu Dhabi Investment House (ADIH) announced the establishment of Wellpharma Holding (ADIH’s investment arm in healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors) that just launched the Wellpharma Medical Solutions Fund. The fund will invest in the development and operation of a local production facility that will specialize in the manufacturing and distribution of high-quality Intravenous (IV) Solutions for [...] SEHA Abu Dhabi Health Services Company has launched its public information kiosks today across the emirate, encouraging the public to become more actively engaged and discuss their medication with participating SEHA pharmacists. Medication Safety Campaign 2009 kicked off with a call to health practitioners to become more aware of medication safety practices and to adopt them [...] Healthcare experts have urged for national dialogue and formation of public private partnerships in the UAE to meet challenges of the growing market. Experts at the three-day Healthcare Travel Congress that began on Sunday said that the local government urgently needs to address licensing, recruitment and accreditation issues in the healthcare sector so as to overcome [...] Modern hospitals depend heavily on medical technology to diagnose, treat and prevent diseases. A typical mid-sized hospital has hundreds of items of medical equipment, from simple stethoscopes and blood pressure monitors to highly sophisticated MRI machines and linear accelerators. Hospitals are complex enterprises with entire departments dedicated to technology planning, assessment, acquisition, maintenance, upgrade and [...] Key West Diagnostics Gains Competitive Advantage with When Key West, FL physician, Dr. Elias Gerth, M.D., became dissatisfied with the local radiology services available to the Key West community, he went to his friend, businessman Bob Dias, to discuss ideas on how to address this situation. Bob got [...] The health advertising industry in the region has become a multimillion-dollar business over the years, according to a study prepared by the Pan Arab Research Centre in Dubai. General manager of the Centre Sami Raffoul told Khaleej Times that total advertising spend value of the whole healthcare sector in the GCC has been estimated at approximately [...] Many of displaced Iraqis in Jordan will receive urgent cancer treatment under an agreement signed by the King Hussein Cancer Fund (KHCF) and UNHCR on Monday. HRH Princess Dina Mired, KHCF director general, and UNHCR Jordan Representative Imran Riza signed the agreement, under which the UN refugee agency donated $500,000 to the foundation to provide urgent [...] There is about 70 per cent of all deaths in Jordan are related to diabetes, a health expert said Monday. At a ceremony organized by the Jordanian Society for Diabetics to mark World Diabetes Day, Kamel Ajlouni, director general of the National Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Genetics, noted that 75 per cent of hospital admissions [...] Developing a Radiology Information System and Picture Archiving and Communications System (RIS/PACS) for a Kenyan Hospital RIS/PACS systems can greatly improve patient care and physician education. However, these features come at a high cost not attainable in most developing countries. Our goal was to explore low-cost options for basic RIS/PACS. We were able to design and [...] |
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