QUMAS and Livec Present: Off-the-Shelf Integrated GxP Content and Process Management

For all Irish Business Network members who wish to find out more about the Data Management Solutions and learn about the Off-the-Shelf Integrated GxP Content and Process Management solutions offered by Qumas and their Swiss business partner Livec, please come to this event on Tuesday 22nd June, 2010, Radisson Blu Hotel, Basel, Steinentorstrasse 25, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

Special Guest: Ms Jane Ann Duffy – Chargé d’Affaires a.i., Irish Embassy to Switzerland

Registration is free of charge, please register at www.qumas.com

Language: English

Agenda:

08:00 – 09:00 Registration & Coffee

09:00 – 09:05 Opening and Introduction (Enterprise Ireland)

09:05 – 09:15 Ms Jane Ann Duffy – Chargé d’Affaires a.i., Irish Embassy to Switzerland

09:15 – 09:25 Enterprise Ireland – Doing business with Irish companies and why QUMAS was chosen as a company to support.

09:25 – 09:55 Off-the-Shelf Integrated GxP Content and Process Management – Ken Hayward (Subject Matter Expert)

09:55 – 10:40 Introduction to QUMAS and to our Pre-Defined Packages – Steve Dawson and Ken Hayward (Subject Matter Expert)

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30 The Synthon Case Study – Tieme Stoutjesdijk, Application Manager, Information Management, Synthon

11:30 – 12:15 QUMAS Pre-Defined Package Demonstration – Cyril Walsh, Senior Solutions Consultant

12:15 – 12:45 Introduction to Livec AG as the local implementation partner and point of contact for interest going forward – Rocco Branco, CEO Livec AG

12:45 – 13:00 Q&A

13.00 Lunch

If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact: Áine Dunleavy (Marketing Executive, QUMAS) Tel: +353 21 491 5100, Email: adunleavy@qumas.com

David Blake, Enterprise Ireland

GE Healthcare joins Intel and leading Irish Universities at world-class Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre.

The TRIL (Technology Research for Independent Living) Centre, Ireland has announced a new industry partner, GE Healthcare.  TRIL is a groundbreaking research initiative, founded in January 2007 by Intel Corporation and IDA Ireland, to explore the physical, cognitive and social consequences of ageing and design technologies to help address them. The addition of GE Healthcare as an industry partner will help TRIL to extend and expand its research programme.  GE joins the TRIL Centre as its second industry partner for 2010, alongside co-founder Intel and academic partners University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and NUI Galway.  GE Healthcare is investing $3 million in the TRIL Centre.

Commenting on the announcement, Barry O’Leary, IDA CEO said, ‘IDA is delighted with today’s announcement by GE Healthcare to join INTEL, and a number of leading Irish Universities, to develop new technologies at TRIL. IDA in collaboration with INTEL founded TRIL and GE Healthcare’s investment in this cutting-edge facility is a significant endorsement of Ireland’s ability to win key projects in the innovation space, building on the Government’s Smart Economy Strategy.’

‘GE Healthcare and INTEL are world-class corporations and leaders in their fields. The convergence of the companies’ technological expertise and the innovative research that will be carried by joining forces at TRIL has the potential to lead to ground-breaking advances in the emerging area of independent living technologies.’

A key goal of TRIL’s research, which brings together world-class industry and academic experts from multiple disciplines, is to enable older people to live independently in the homes of their choice for as long as possible, with the help of technology—and in the process, to help ease the strain on global healthcare systems as the world’s population ages.  This objective aligns with GE Healthcare’s goal of continuously developing innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality and efficiency.
Home health is a key business focus for GE Healthcare.  The company recently acquired Living Independently Group, a provider of QuietCare, a passive activity monitoring system used to assist in the care of the elderly.  The company is also leading a consortium of private and public sector organizations in a $5 million three-year home health research program funded by the Hungarian government.  In April 2009, GE and Intel announced the formation of a healthcare alliance to develop and market technologies for independent living and chronic disease management.  As part of this alliance, GE Healthcare markets the Intel® Health Guide in the US and UK. The Intel Health Guide is a comprehensive personal health system that combines an in-home patient device – the Intel® Health Guide PHS6000 – as well as an online interface – the Intel® Health Care Management Suite – allowing clinicians to monitor patients from their homes and manage care remotely.

Over the last three years, more than 600 older adults have been assessed in the TRIL Clinic and a large number have participated in the TRIL technology home deployment programme.  The commitment of GE Healthcare will enable TRIL to expand the pool of participants and build on the accomplishments of the first three years. The addition of GE Healthcare as an industry partner supports TRIL’s strategic vision of securing additional industry partners, from SMEs to multinational companies such as GE and Intel, to advance its important research effort.

IDA Ireland Press Release, 28^th April 2010

As the final months of 2009 draw closer, the Business Network Team would like to take just a moment to update you on the phenomenal success that Irish companies in the biopharma industry have been achieving in Switzerland since January.

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The Old Kilbeggan Distillery, Co. Westmeath

After a record breaking 2008, 2009 is already shaping up to be another fantastic year for Cooley Distillery recently winning a record six awards including “World’s Best Irish Single Malt Whiskey“ and “World’s Best Single Grain Whisky” at the World Whiskies Awards in London.

Ireland’s only independent whiskey distiller, Cooley Distillery named World Distiller of the Year last November at the International Wine and Spirit Competition has now added a further six top accolades to its growing collection of International awards.

Cooley’s Tyrconnell Single Malt won the “World’s Best Irish Single Malt” award for its Single Cask offering and its Greenore Single Grain 15 Year Old Irish whiskey picked up the “World’s Best Single Grain Whisky” award. The World Whiskies Awards are adjudicated by an illustrious panel of whisky experts brought together by the industry bible, The Whisky Magazine.

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Prior to Achema 2009 in Frankfurt, CHEManager Europe travelled to Ireland and met with some of the leading companies active in Ireland’s cutting edge engineering & construction industry that serve the global Life Sciences sector.  Please click below to download PDF.

CHEManager Ireland Special (PDF)

Brivant, based in Galway (Ireland), were featured on the front cover of the European Medical Device Manufacturers (EMDM) March/ April edition. Their new “Twister” core wire technology has made significant inroads in neurovascular applications since its introduction at TCT in Washington D.C. last October.

To read more about this core wire “with the attributes of Nitinol without the cost as well as superior 1:1 torqueability, pushability and kink resistance”, view the article here: Wedgewire Advances CTO Crossibility