24th to 26th October 2016, Victoria, BC, USA. When there are adverse events and outcomes in a patient’s care, providers’ responses have a powerful effect on all the parties’ ability to communicate about and resolve the situation satisfactorily. Accrediting bodies, professional organizations, state legislatures and research findings all encourage forthrightness […]

Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2017 EpidM organizes for the fifth time the Winter Courses in Epidemiology. From 11th to 27th January 2017 EpidM offers a very interesting program which covers courses in Mixed Model Analysis, Clinimetrics, Clinical Prediction Models and Missing Data. […]

On 27 September we will reach out to a relatively new community within the healthcare sector: the app developers. Before the European Health Forum Gastein 2016 opens its doors, this will be a unique and new opportunity for multi-stakeholder consulting – with a specific aim. AppGASTEIN 2016: “Here to stay? […]

by Redblink Inc. Eczema Tracker is a simple and informative app that helps you view, track, and analyze your eczema, food allergy, and other triggers information, like no other app. The eczema app provides your local pollen, mold, weather, humidity information to help you analyze your eczema or allergy symptoms, […]

von Mag. Dr. Peter Nowak. Täglich stehen Ärztinnen und Ärzte, Pflegepersonen und andere Gesundheitskräfte im Gespräch mit ihren Patientinnen und Patienten. Es ist sogar der wesentlichste Anteil ihrer Arbeit, aber bisher oft nur als „soft skill“ und „nice to have“ wenig beachtet worden. Wissenschaftliche Studien verweisen auf vielfache Effekte guter […]

Gutes Webdesign passiert nicht durch Zufall, sondern folgt Prinzipien und Mechanismen, welche die Wahrnehmung Ihrer Webseite durch die Nutzer positiv beeinflussen und eine Bindung zu Ihrem Service erzeugen sofern sie berücksichtigt werden. Dies ist der erste einer Serie von Artikeln, der einen guten Ausgangspunkt zum Verständnis für diese Prinzipien und Mechaniken darstellt, um in […]

Die medizinische Versorgung von PatientInnen, die weder Deutsch noch Englisch sprechen, wird zu einer zunehmenden Herausforderung in der medizinischen Versorgung. Insbesondere die adäquate Behandlung geflohener Menschen stellt häufig ein Problem dar, da viele der Menschen allein geflohen sind und nicht auf ein Netzwerk an gut deutsch sprechenden Verwandten und Freunden […]

7th October 2016, Vienna, Austria. Are you interested in medical continuing education and work in the USA? Are you interested in an Internship and Residency at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, USA? Going International and the Alumni Club of Medical University Vienna would like to invite you to attend this year’s Going […]

24th to 25th October 2016, Wageningen, The Netherlands. In the past ten years, Academic Collaborative Centres (ACC) have been established to bridge the gap between the fields of policy, practice and research. These ACCs are consortia of Public Health Services and Universities in the Netherlands. At present there are nine […]

9th to 11th October 2016, Berlin, Germany. Held once a year, the WHS has grown into the world’s most prominent forum for addressing global health issues. It brings together key leaders from academia, politics, civil society, and the private sector to address the most pressing health-related challenges on the planet. […]