leslie versweyveld

Dear All,

Please note that the July issue of the Virtual Medical Worlds Magazine
is now available on-line at http://www.hoise.com/vmw.

This month's edition features an interview with Dr. Katzenstein on
HealthSpan International by Bob Pyke Jr. and a contribution on Growth of
Open Source Solutions in Healthcare in the 21st Century by Peter Groen
and Douglas Goldstein. The ISC2006 award winning papers in Dresden are
commented by Chris Lazou. Other Dresden ISC2006 Conference articles
address the SPICE and Blue Brain projects; the simulation of
life-threatening disease spreading; and tumour growth simulation.

Maybe, you prefer to use the handy click-through menu below to learn
more about the EU-funded Health Optimum and Beyond-The-Horizon projects;
the European industry's vision with regard to on-line health; mobile
robotic surgery in Cincinnati; robotic surgery for prostate cancer in
Québec; mobile telemedicine at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles; and many
more.

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Leslie Versweyveld
The VMW editorial team

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Click-through menu of the Virtual Medical Worlds July Issue 2006:

Acquisition MercuryMD advances Thomson strategy to improve outcomes by
integrating clinical knowledge into the clinician's work flow
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-1.html

Caligari announces new truePlay promotion
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-2.html

Hypercosm LLC launches medical simulation group
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-3.html

New York research breakthrough on NCSA's SGI Altix system may hold key
to developing new drugs to stop HIV
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-4.html

Mitrionics develops turnkey BLAST/Bioinformatics application for instant
FPGA Supercomputing performance acceleration
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-5.html

VTT and A*Star offer new efficient health care solutions technology for
an acute emergency and aging population
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-6.html

The University of North Carolina Health Care System teams with IBM to
implement advanced electronic medical system for one million patients
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-7.html

IBM collaborates with St. Jude Medical on new state-of-the-art cardiac
patient care system
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-8.html

OA Systems completes SureScripts certification for electronic
prescribing connectivity between physicians and pharmacies
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-9.html

Growth of Open Source Solutions in Healthcare in the 21st Century
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-10.html

Health Optimum offers telemedicine solutions to optimise health care
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-11.html

THIN and Availity seeking to join forces to expand real-time health care
transactions
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-12.html

Medical Intelligence signs LOI with SEUR Pharma to distribute its
Columba bracelet in Spain
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-13.html

Doctors to go mobile with telemedicine at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-14.html

Elant Inc. turns to IBM and BladeFusion for improved patient care system

http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-15.html

New wireless networking system brings eye care to thousands in India
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-16.html

Québec has a first in using robotic surgery for prostate cancer
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-17.html

InMed Diagnostic Services selects Aurora Breast MRI for the women of
Cape Cod and Southeast Massachusetts
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-18.html

Tangent announces VITA 8000S, a powerful, high-speed, space saving
all-in-one LCD PC for health care and government markets
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-19.html

Bob Pyke Jr. interviewing Dr. Katzenstein on HealthSpan International
and innovative telemedicine
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-20.html

ISC2006 Awards Innovation
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-21.html

New Telecare and Telehealth technology provision to the NHS and Local
Authorities in the United Kingdom
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-22.html

Bethesda Memorial Hospital and Virginia Mason Medical Center Web sites
go live with MEDSEEK solutions
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-23.html

Parco Merged Media integrates Ekahau Real Time Location System (RTLS)
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-24.html

ICTs - the glue that binds future research
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-25.html

Cincinnati surgeon leads first test of mobile robotic surgery
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-26.html

California hospitals connect with extensive electronic medical records
system
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-27.html

Kootenai Medical Center uses Converged Access solutions to optimize
application performance for multiple real time applications
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-28.html

Blue Brain Project to consolidate simulation of neocortical column into
one model
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-29.html

Promising but challenging tumour growth simulation experiments at TU
Dresden
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-30.html

Spicing up the use of federated Grids for computational biology
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-31.html

Simulation model to lay bare trail of avian flu, SARS and HIV/AIDS
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-32.html

Bartron Medical Imaging selects Scali Manage solution
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-33.html

New York University scientists begin second phase of project to better
understand disease
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-34.html

American surgeon Introduces PLUS Orthopedic's innovative robotic
computer-assisted surgery technology in Australia
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-35.html

Duke University Medical Center and IBM speed up access to vital patient
information
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-36.html

WebVMC selected by assisted living facility Arbor Terrace of Decatur to
provide virtual medical care to residents
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-37.html

Cyberkinetics reports first data from non-speaking, paralyzed
participant in ongoing study of BrainGate Neural Interface system
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-38.html

Clarity Medical Systems announces major move into adult eye care market
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-39.html

Industry joins forces for on-line health
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-06-40.html