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VPH Institute publishes press release

Deadline of submission of manuscripts: September 29, 2014

May 26-27, 2014 at Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Health information technology is on the rise worldwide. Despite its many advantages, the new technology is not free of flaws. In the US, the Health Information Technology and Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was implemented to adopt and use health IT in a meaningful way. However, in the recent past, concerns were raised whether the current health IT policy is really in the position to…

On June 18, 2014, three partners of the p-medicine consortium were invited to give a webinar on “Personalised Medicine knowledge as a catalyzer for clinical decision making” via EPEMED, the European Personalised Medicine Association (www.epemed.org). The webinar focused on the clinical decision making for new targeted therapies and how this is affected by the information the clinicians have at…