Topic of the Month November: MEDICA 2004

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Welcome to MEDICA 2004, the No. 1 meeting point worldwide for the medical sector! Every year in November, the fair draws exhibitors from over 60 nations and visitors from almost 100 countries to Düsseldorf.

MEDICA.de will keep you up-to-date during the whole course of the important fair. Our Topic of the Month is concerned with trends at this year's medical fair.

As if it was a microscopic laboratory. However, no technicians are dealing with test tubes and sophisticated machines inside it, since the minilab is in fact a stamp-sized chip that can identify hundreds of genetic characteristics with just a tiny amount of tissue sample. - Biochips: A Few Hundred Genes at Once

Taking a virtual ride through a coronary vessel or watching the heart in beating motion - this as well as looking for calcifications within arteries or examining tiny vessel extensions is possible with high-resolution images made by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). - MRI: Take a Ride Through the Human Body

The electronic health card will be introduced across Germany in 2006 and decidedly change the German health system and its organizational structures. If the insured person consents, the card carries data relevant to emergency services, pharmaceutical documentation, electronic doctors' reports and the electronic patient file. - The Electronic Health Card

The introduction of German DRGs (Fallpauschalengesetz, DRG law) has meant that the time it takes for patients to be treated is having a direct effect on a clinic's cost-effectiveness. Efficient document management workflows in the medical sector can help to reduce waiting and idle time to an absolute minimum. - Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) call for efficient document management processes

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Our Topics at a Glance - MEDICA.de's topics in 2004
- MEDICA.de's topics in 2003