News topic: Clinics, Companies
Science Fiction meets reality
In May last year, the company Cyberdyne announced they would be setting up in the BioMedicine Science Centre Bochum, and at the same time a pilot project started at the Bergmannsheil clinic where HAL® suits are being adapted for European ... read more »
Bergmannsheil Managing Director Hans-Werner Kick retires after 22 years
Hans-Werner Kick, long-serving Managing Director of the Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Universitätsklinikums Bergmannsheil university clinic, has been honoured at a big retirement event. Retiring due to his age, he had been responsible for the clinic for 22 years as the Hospital Director and ... read more »
Two new professors at the Bochum Knappschaftskrankenhaus hospital
As part of a research funding project by the state of NRW (PURE), two new respected senior physicians at the medical clinic (Director: Prof: Dr. Wolff Schmiegel) in the Universitätsklinikum Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum hospital have received professorships. The European Protein ... read more »
Minister Barbara Steffens opens Diagnostics Centre Ruhr
The new Diagnostics Centre Ruhr (Diagnostik Zentrum Ruhr (DZR)) was inaugurated on 1 February on the campus of the Ruhr University Bochum and right next door to the Grönemeyer Institute for Microtherapy. The initiators are the Bochum radiologist Prof. Dr. ... read more »
Launch of the first 1000 electronic ID cards for healthcare professionals
Pilot project to test possible issuing processes to be used by the Electronic Register of Healthcare Professions (eGBR) At the IT Trends Medicine / Health Telematics convention on 21.09.2011 the first electronic ID cards for healthcare professionals (eHBA) were issued for ... read more »
Stroke Care Alliance continues to take shape
Experts discuss care models and research The idea of founding a Stroke Care Alliance continues to take shape. Invited by the University of Health Sciences (hsg) and the Post-Reha-Netzwerk, an association towards improving post rehab care, 17 experts from healthcare fields ... read more »
New managing director at Bergmannsheil
Clemens Maurer (50) is going to be the new managing director of the “Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil” university clinic. He is currently still employed as the CEO at the Katholisches Klinikum Duisburg gGmbH and will start on 01.04.2012 as the successor ... read more »
Clear vision on trial
RUB-Eye Clinic fits innovative lenses to treat cataracts Reading, working on the computer or driving without glasses – these wishes can all come true for cataract patients with the help of an innovative new lens. The RUB Eye Clinic in the ... read more »
The future starts in Bochum
CYBERDYNE sets up German branch in the BioMedicine Centre Bochum and continues development of its “Robot Suit” at Bergmansheil University Hospital A computer called HAL, cybernetics and robot-prostheses which are controlled by the patient’s own thoughts – this all sounds like ... read more »
Standing strong against cancer
Ruhr University Comprehensive Cancer Center (RUCCC) founded According to the statistics, every third European will be afflicted by cancer at some point in their lives. This diagnosis used to be equivalent to a death sentence but nowadays it is not necessarily ... read more »