What stands behind the broad term eHealth: ‘The application of Internet and other related technologies in the healthcare industry to improve the access, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of clinical and business processes utilized by healthcare organizations, practitioners, patients, and consumers to improve the health status of patients’
Published in HIMSS News,Volume 13 Number 7, p. 12. “HIMSS SIG develops proposed e-health definition”


On October 15th 2009 Cisco will host the second Healthcare CxO Roundtable across 15 European locations. We will discuss about: ‘eHealth Best Practice’ focusing on the increasing requirement of Medical Data Sharing between different stakeholders in healthcare (e.g. Hospitals, GPs, Labs, Nursing Homes, Remot & Mobile Care etc.)


We invited the following CxO Level speakers to share with us their experience and involvement in existing large eHealth projects.

– Stefano Venturi, Cisco Vice President Europe, Executive Welcome from Cisco's European Public Sector lead

– Kaveh Safavi, Cisco VP Healthcare Consulting, USA

– Dr. Harald Eder, CIO of Hospital Wels in the region of 'Ober-Österreich', Austria

– Luciano Bastoni, CEO Arsenal IT Consortium 'Regione Veneto', Italy

– Petra Wilson, Director Cisco Healthcare Consulting Group, Kickoff the discussion

Sincerely,

Paul R. Zotloeterer European Healthcare Team	Till Osswald European Healthcare Business Development