Last week, Microsoft organized a meeting in Brussels with more than 100 participants debating about the use of technology as a factor of health sustainability and improvement across Europe.  Topics such as use of cloud computing and its promises...

Recently, Financial Times article Microsoft drops US HealthVault profit plans has been making some waves about a change in strategy regarding Microsoft’s HealthVault platform. In reality, there is no change in strategy - HealthVault is part of Microsoft...

During Medica 2010 event in Dusseldorf, our HealthVault team, represented by Jens Dommel - Head of HealthVault, Western Europe at Microsoft Health Solutions Group , announced the launch in Germany of Assignio , a health platform powered by Microsoft HealthVault...

Prague is beautiful at this time of the year… The weather is cold but sunny and the parks are enchanting the eye by their autumn colours. The historical buildings and the old part of the city are, as I always saw them, preserved in a perfect condition...

On the 29th of June, COCIR association was invited by the European Patients Forum to present some of he key aspects of the structural funds use in eHealth in a Conference called EU Health Open Forum 2010 . As a representative, my industry fellows from...

HealthVault – the Microsoft Personal Health Record platform – is now in Europe! While, in several posts, I was discussing the potential benefits of such a platform in Europe, a first launch happened yesterday in UK. According to research , 13% of the...

  Last Friday, COCIR (the European Association of Radiological, Electrotechnical and IT Industry) has been invited to present the key recommendations that the European industry can give to the European Commission (DG Health and Consumer Protection...

I come back to you with another demo that we recorded in the Executive Briefing Centre in Brussels. In the era of aging population and in the context of the challenge that this is entailing for health care, the home care applications can offer a viable...

Many of our guests are visiting the Executive Briefing Centre located in Brussels, Belgium and have the occasion to see some of the Microsoft demos related to smart house applications and the Personal Health Record platform ( HealthVault ).   Some...

Two days ago, on the 8th of June, the EU Council agreed on a Draft Directive on cross-border care. While this is not the final step for full adoption of this important document, the positive vote of the EU Council is opening a new perspective on cross...

Yesterday I have been invited to speak about new business models of eHealth at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Very surprising is that the Conference (entitled The New Age of Health IT) was organized by the International Bar Association and centred...

Yesterday, 22 of April, I attended a Conference in London entitled “Health for All, Care for You” on the theme of Personalized Healthcare. The Conference was organized by Science and Business journal with the participation of the Royal College of Physicians...

Last week Microsoft Executive Briefing Centre from Brussels hosted a meeting for health executives from Romania, including governmental bodies, industry and users. The event gathered 25 Romanian policy makers, prominent speakers, media and other members...

For the last months, I assisted at the development of several mobile applications very useful for remote diagnostic, second opinion and emergency situations. Based on innovative software, such as Waaves , allowing lossless compression, medical images...

Some weeks ago, I met Mr. Marc Van Anderlecht, representing the company Uni-Com Medical based in Belgium. Uni-Com is distributing in Belgium the products of QRS based in US and has managed to spread its products on numerous sites across Europe and Africa...

Walking through the exhibition in the AAL Forum in Vienna, I was impressed by a new robot development performed by a French company called Aldebaran Robotics . After 3 years of research, Aldebaran Robotics has developed NAO - a 58-cm biped robot. It...

From 29 September to 1 October 2009 the first AAL FORUM took place in the Vienna Hofburg. This kick-off event of the international conference series of the Ambient Assisted Living - Joint Programmes (AAL-JP) served as an information and discussion platform...

Microsoft was one of the sponsors of the symposium organized by the European Health Telematics Association ( EHTEL ) in Brussels on the 21st, 22nd of October 2009.  EHTEL mission is to be the "grid" which creates trust, coherence and consensus...

I have just returned from Romania, where an important congress took place. The Global Forum   is an annual international and independent event, a Think Tank dedicated to the Economic, Political and Social issues related to the successful evolution...

After a long silence induced by several long travels, I come back to you to share my observations on the newly installed Windows 7 . Last week, I have been in Redmond and had a quick installation of the new operating system of Microsoft.    ...

For several years, I followed and admired the organizational process and excellent results of Kaiser Permanente Health organization. I truly think that this is one of the best example of sustainable economic model and wise use of eHealth. Founded in 1945...

Last week, European Commission and the Ministry of Health from Germany, with the support of Microsoft, organized a two days workshop on semantic interoperability in EHRs. The initiative was triggered by the work performed by 12 countries in the project...

Brussels seemed to be the center of the world last 2 weeks - several conferences were organized, unfortunately overlapping as topic and time. For example, on the 17th of June, members of COCIR (European Radiological , Electromedical and Healthcare IT...

I attended last week in Brussels the meeting of the International Insurance Association (AIM) Disease Management group. The AIM is a grouping of autonomous health insurance and social protection bodies operating according to the principles of solidarity...

My souvenirs about Lisbon were associated with an intense, golden sun light and impeccable blue sky. Unfortunately, my last week visit in Lisbon was accompanied by a gray weather and steady rain. This was not impeaching a group of enthusiasts to assist...