Ensuring efficient admissions, discharge and bed management processes is vital to a healthcare organization’s bottom line. Hear proven strategies for using Lean to improve patient care procedures throughout the complete hospital throughput process.

It's been no easy feat for health care organizations to juggle reducing costs with improving patient safety and care. It's been particularly difficult in light of the ever shifting changes that the industry now faces. Achieving greater operational excellence can go a long way in helping health care organizations to accomplish this task.

WCBF’s Lean Six Sigma and Process Excellence in Healthcare Summit is the largest gathering of senior executives responsible for deploying Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare. Presenting an unrivalled global speaker panel, the Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit forecasts over 400 senior-level attendees, delivering unparalleled networking and learning opportunities. Featured Keynote: Dr Gary Kaplan, Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System. Virginia Mason is considered to be the national leader in deploying the Toyota Production System to health care management — reducing the high costs of health care while improving quality, safety and efficiency to deliver better,…

Designed for NHS Transport Managers and those leading the drive to implement a travel plan, this unique seminar will share in-depth insight into how to ensure your policy is effective as well as sustainable. • Identify where to begin: what to consider to ensure a solid start for your travel plan • Share in workable ideas: understand what will motivate your staff to change • Action your plan: strengthen logistics and alternative means of travel to make them viable options • Sustain and develop your plan: ensure longevity for your travel policy by looking to the future This is an…

Are you trying to showcase the importance of your service whilst enhancing patient outcomes? Yes? Then this one day event is for you. Designed for Heads of Dietetics and Dietitians from across the NHS, this crucial event will enable you to explore different methods of innovating on your service. You will have access to a range of case studies which will reveal what is really working to improve outcomes and increase efficiency in trusts around the country. This event is your only opportunity to focus on these key areas: • Measuring the Value of your Dietetic Service • Meeting CQC…

Attend this interactive study day and receive useful guidance on how to set up and sustain an effective obesity pathway, ensuring you fall in line with the latest government objectives: • Identify what others are doing to manage their obese patients • Share experiences and best practice techniques • Update your knowledge on effective intervention criteria and hurdles to overcome • Receive crucial guidance into how you can meet your patients’ needs This is an unmissable opportunity to get to grips with the principles and practicalities of developing a pathway that is right for your patients in your area. Packed…

Overview: This training course is designed to give pharmaceutical and biologic companies operating in the U.S. and EU an understanding of product safety and regulatory compliance. The course will include case studies of adverse events to illustrate the decision-making process and reasoning needed behind when and how to properly report incidents to regulatory authorities. Product safety makes headlines every day - and the impact on a company’s image, consumer confidence, and Wall Street’s opinion is profound. While good safety data has historically been a prerequisite for product approval, recent media attention has intensified public and Congressional scrutiny and resulted in…

SMi proudly presents its 12th annual Pain Therapeutics conference, which will be held on 21st & 22nd May 2012 in London. Pain is the most common reason patients seek medical care and has significant sensory and emotional components. Despite the advances in pain management, few significant advancements have been made, and in recent years it has become harder and harder to get analgesics to market. With the whole industry under financial pressure, there is an economic imperative for companies to improve their research and development methods in order to ensure that drugs being put forward for clinical trials have the…

38th Annual Meeting Internstional Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes Global challenges for Integrated Pediatric Diabetes Care Over four days, ISPAD 2012 will feature the latest results and insights from diabetes research, continuing successful topics from past years while at the same time putting emphasis on basic research. Topics - Insulin resistance and Obesity and treatment modalities - Monogenic Diabetes - Special type of diabetes - National Diabetes Programs - Chronic complications - Glycemic Variability - Technology in Diabetic Care - Diabetes and organ specific autoimmunity - Preservation and cure - Nutrition and diabetes - Psychosocial issues - Sports and…

We are delighted to announce the 1st International Genomics Research Asia conference and exhibition. Run in partnership with the TATAA Biocenter and Phile Korea, the event will focus on providing researchers with an in depth learning opportunity through a two track, two day conference programme full of international experts in the field. A selection of training courses will also be available, providing an opportunity to learn the practical applications of the tools and technologies being discussed throughout the conference. The event will be staged at the Convention Center (DCC) in Daejeon, the center of biotechnology within Korea, and will feature…

Indian Lab Automation conference and exhibition will be held in the city of Mumbai, India. The three conference tracks at this event include Drug Discovery and Development, Advances in Genomics & Informatics and Advances in Bioanalysis. Registered delegates will have access to all three meetings ensuring a very cost-effective trip. For more information on each track visit our website.

Hosted under the auspices of the Flow Chemistry Society, this inaugural event will consist of a one-day workshop. It will be held immediately prior to the Indian Lab Automation conference and will present the latest advances in flow chemistry delivered by an international panel of speakers. To ensure wide accessibility the registration costs will be set at a very affordable level. A number of suppliers will be present to introduce their latest equipment. The focus of this meeting will be on the use of enabling technologies in synthetic chemistry and continuous flow chemistry. Under the auspices of the Flow Chemistry…

ALEH2012 will provide attendees with innovative clinical research of the study of liver structure, function, and diseases .It will be a platform for sharing knowledge and information on the treatment of patients with liver illness.

Hosted under the auspices of the Flow Chemistry Society, this inaugural event will consist of a one-day workshop. It will be held immediately prior to the Indian Lab Automation conference and will present the latest advances in flow chemistry delivered by an international panel of speakers. To ensure wide accessibility the registration costs will be set at a very affordable level. A number of suppliers will be present to introduce their latest equipment. For more information visit our website.

Flow Chemistry Asia conference and exhibition will be held in Singapore. The focus of this meeting will be on the use of enabling technologies in synthetic chemistry and continuous flow chemistry. Under the auspices of the Flow Chemistry Society a line-up of experts from academia and industry, supported by invited lecturers, will address the latest advances in the field. Topics such as, Meso Flow Chemistry, Lab to Pilot Scale, Microfluidic Flow Chemistry and New Directions in Flow Chemistry will be discussed. For more information visit our website.

Systems Biology Europe conference and exhibition will be held in Madrid, the capital and largest city of Spain. The four conference tracks at this event include Cancer Proteomics, Informatics, Exosomes/Markers in Biological Fluids and Metabolic Profiling & Lipidomics. Registered delegates will have access to all four meetings ensuring a very cost-effective trip. For more information on each track visit our website.

This conference will discuss the wide range of cutting edge research being conducted using Microarray technologies in various scientific fields. Focusing on areas such as DNA/Protein expression profiling and genotyping, tissue arrays for histological analysis and biomarker discovery, an overview of the diverse work being carried out in this important field will be given. Across both the conference and exhibition we also aim to keep researchers in the field up to date with the latest microarray tools and analytical techniques available.

Select Biosciences 3rd annual Single Cell Analysis Summit 2012 will build on the overwhelming success of the previous Single Cell events. Single Cell Analysis is an up and coming area, which focuses on detecting minute differences in individual cells, which many say could improve medical tests and treatments. At this event will be a whole host of expert speakers in this field who will be able to offer and insight into the latest methods and techniques being used to image and analyse various cells. Topics that will be covered include microarrays and chips for single cell analysis, microfluidics in single…

Molecular Diagnostics World congress and exhibition will be held in the city of San Diego, USA. The conference will be co-located with Microarray World Congress, Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress and Single Cell Analysis Summit. Registered delegates will have access to all four meetings ensuring a very cost-effective trip. Topics such as, Cancer Personalised Medicine, Companion Diagnostics, Emerging technologies in MDx, MDx for Infectious Diseases and Oncology Biomarkers are some of the issues that will be discussed. For more information visit our website.

Welcome to the Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress and exhibition. This year's event will be held in San Diego. The Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress will bring together leaders from both academia and industry to discuss innovative developments in this exciting field, with presentations exploring the latest advances in microfluidics and microfabrication. Attention will also be given to some of the many applications of Labs-on-Chips, from the enhancement of life science research, to taking diagnostics to the point of need. The conference will be co-located with Microarray World Congress, Molecular Diagnostics World Congress and Single Cell Analysis Summit. Registered delegates will have access to…