Healthcare Special Interest Group

Healthcare Special Interest Group: 'Real Time Diagnostics'

The Cambridge Network Healthcare SIG event will discuss the subject of "Real-time diagnostics: opportunities and challenges of implementing point of care testing in the clinical environment".

Organiser name: Cambridge Network
Start date/time: 10 February 2010: 17.30pm
Organiser email: louise.rushworth@cambridgenetwork.co.uk
Organiser tel: 01223 401585
Venue: TTP, Melbourn Science Park, SG8 6EE
End date/time: 10 February 2010: 20.30pm

In recent years, technological advances have made possible to carry out diagnostic testing in hospital wards, critical care units, general practitioner offices and home settings.

This trend will be reviewed and discussed from a clinical and industrial perspective, highlighting medical needs and drivers, technology opportunities, benefits and challenges for widespread adoption, with examples of novel diagnostic options.

Speakers at the event will be:

Dr. Shane Gordon (pictured), Associate Medical Director of NHS East of England: NHS East of England was established on 1 July 2006 as the Strategic Health Authority for the East of England, covering Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Dr Mark O'Connell, R&D Director of Probe Scientific: A medical device company that has launched its first device, the MicroEye®,for intravenous microdialysis enabling automated, continuous and online monitoring of key biomarkers without the need for blood withdrawal.

The Healthcare SIG aims to provide a platform where mainstream technology members of the Cambridge Network can interact with those companies focused more specifically on healthcare issues, for the benefit of both.

The venue for this meeting is TTP on the Melbourn Science Park, and the evening will start with registration at 17:30. The event is free to staff from Cambridge Network corporate member organisations.

Places at this event are now extremely limited and we are holding a waiting list. Please contact louise.rushworth@cambridgenetwork.co.uk if you would like to be added to the waiting list.

We are most grateful to our Founder Members NHS East of England, TTP Group, Philips Research and Mills & Reeve for championing Cambridge Network's Healthcare Special Interest Group, and for NHS East of England and TTP Group in organizing this event.

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