Announcement VMW May Issue 2007

Announcement VMW May Issue 2007


Dear All,

Please note that the May issue of the Virtual Medical Worlds Magazine is
now available on-line at * w w w .hoise . com /vmw.

This month's
edition features contributions on a report by First Consulting Group about
telemedicine in the ambulatory setting; an image-guided robot for brain
surgery at the University of Calgary; an underwater NASA mission to test a
mobile surgical robot; advanced real-time medical imaging at Mayo
Clinic; and Robosoft's Estele robot for tele-echography.

Maybe, you prefer to
use the handy click-through menu below to learn more about the EU
initiative for cross-border electronic health services; a UK network for stem
cell science; a new EU report on eHealth priorities; foetal monitoring;
the European CancerGrid research project; and many more.

Our contact
e-mail address is vmw@hoise . com . Please, feel welcome to send us:

*
news and contributions on telemedicine, Virtual Reality, Grid- and
HPCN-related medical applications,
E-health, health care compunetics, 3G
medicine, medically-applied RFID, and health care implemented information
technology;
* company or project stories;
* press releases;
* conference
announcements;
* requests for banner and job adds - (please, ask about our
friendly rates!)

VMW also offers a large number of practical services
for companies and
organisations at
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/monthly/dealvmw.html.

Do not hesitate to contact us for more information.

Kind
Regards and Pleasant Readings,

Ad Emmen
Leslie Versweyveld
The VMW editorial
team

Virtual Medical Worlds Magazine
James Stewartstraat 248
NL-1325
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The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-36-537 3867
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5002
E-mail:
vmw@hoise . com
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw
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Click-through menu of the Virtual Medical
Worlds May Issue 2007:

Zandar HD MultiViewer in medical and educational
Flypack for Worldwide Satellite
Communications
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-1.html

SRIT to launch ACTchange, a
framework enabling health care
collaboration
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-2.html

Aerotel Medical Systems reveals innovative
mobile monitoring solutions at Med-e-Tel
2007
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-3.html

Robosoft unveils ESTELE, worldwide
first health care robot for
tele-echography
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-4.html

Dutch RFID project in health care
completed
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-5.html

First
Consulting Group issues report on Telemedicine in the Ambulatory
Setting 
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-6.html

MIDAS
Project researchers will use TeraGrid to help predict spread of
disease
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-7.html

Mayo Clinic
and IBM score significant advance in real-time medical
imaging
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-8.html

Province of
British Columbia selects Sun to build and implement provincial Electronic
Health Record
system
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-9.html

Transition of Grid computing from education to life sciences
brings immense
opportunities
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-10.html

Providers and hospitals can now access consistent health
insurance coverage information in
seconds
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-11.html

New report on eHealth priorities and
strategies in 32 European
countries
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-12.html

HP helps University of Utah Health Care
improve patient care and lower costs through IT
consolidation
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-13.html

New York City Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene selects eClinicalWorks unified
EMR/PM
solution
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-14.html

Greenway Medical Technologies' integrated EHR solution, PrimeSuite, becomes a
registered solution of the Highmark eHealth
Collaborative
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-15.html

Robotic surgeon to
team up with doctors and astronauts on NASA
mission
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-16.html

New network launches to keep
United Kingdom at forefront of stem cell
science
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-17.html

MEDICUS Project wins Internet2
Idea
award
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-18.html

Researchers use Cray XT3 supercomputer at PSC to break through
drug-resistant bacteria's
defenses
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-19.html

U.S. Army selects Cogon Systems to develop advanced
clinical decision support tools for handheld
computers
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-20.html

InterComponentWare networks
Heidelberg University Hospital with partner
hospitals
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-21.html

Hospira introduces advanced
wireless security platform for infusion
devices
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-22.html

Albany Molecular Research Inc.
leads European CancerGrid research
project
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-23.html

Foetal monitoring: a revolution in the
monitoring of unborn
babies
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-24.html

German Council Presidency gives fresh impetus to
co-operation on cross-border electronic health services
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-25.html

World's first image-guided
surgical robot to enhance accuracy and safety of brain
surgery
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-26.html

VTT developed a
software tool for integrating and analysing complex medical
data
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-27.html

Confirma Inc. and
Guardian Techologies International Inc. sign collaboration and strategic
alliance
agreement
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-28.html

Cardiac expertise is just a heartbeat away at ValleyCare
Medical
Center
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-29.html

NIST measuring device aims to heighten hip operation
success
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-30.html

Immersion Medical
expands endovascular medical simulation
capabilities
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-31.html

Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009
team delivers first DARPA limb
prototype
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-32.html

Patent for Mobile Aspects augments
leadership role for health care RFID
solutions
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-33.html

Nanoparticles acting as little
lifesavers improve delivery of medicines and
diagnostics
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-34.html

B-Line Medical releases
SimCube, a comprehensive solution for capturing and assessing
simulation
encounters
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-35.html

WebVMC's telehealth system helps Piedmont Hospital reduce heart patient
re-admissions by 23
percent
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-36.html

Exercise science principles strengthen
swallowing
rehabilitation
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-37.html

Wellcome Trust and GlaxoSmithKline announce partnership to target
drug-resistant hospital
infections
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-38.html

Study shows hope for early diagnosis of
Alzheimer's
disease
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-39.html

Fraunhofer to sign major research collaboration agreement with Portuguese
government
* w w w .hoise . com /vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-05-07-40.html