The two-day event brought together more than 400 Pediatric and Neonatal Health experts from Europe and Middle East SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates -Thursday, February 22nd 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] Professor Hakam Yaseen, Medical Director and Head of the Pediatric & Neonatal Department at University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, served as Chairperson for the 6th Pediatric & Neonatal International Conference as part of a unified effort to lower infant and child mortality rates. The two-day event, which concluded on February 9th, focused on the role that modern technology plays in shaping the future of pediatric and neonatal health, the conference organised ten different speaking sessions and four workshops. Bringing together more than 400 participants from Europe and Middle East, including Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Turkey. “Over the years, advancements in pediatric and neonatal care have brought about rapid changes and the UAE has taken ... Read more »

Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt launches groundbreaking new measures to improve patient safety in the National Health Service LONDON-Monday, February 26th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit kicked off with an important announcement about the progress being made to save lives in hospital settings. Nearly 4,600 hospitals in 44 countries have committed to adopting patient safety processes that are proven to eliminate preventable deaths in hospitals. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation has taken on an inspiring and ambitious goal of reducing preventable patient deaths in hospitals to ZERO by 2020. The annual Summit in central London plays a major role in taking on that challenge with the participation of 300 global leaders, medical experts, medical technology CEOs, and patient advocates. “If I am standing here in 2020 and we have not reached zero preventable deaths, then we at least better have implem ... Read more »

TrustCall Native for Samsung boasts the only secure communications solution native to standard smartphones for business users, to be demonstrated in the Samsung booth at MWC BETHESDA, Md. & BARCELONA, Spain-Monday, February 26th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- KoolSpan, the leading provider of encrypted secure voice and messaging solutions for smartphones, has partnered with Samsung to provide TrustCall Native for Samsung; the only solution providing native dialer integration on Samsung devices. Samsung is demonstrating TrustCall Native for Samsung at MWC in their booth. Attacks on mobile communications have increased globally as criminals, hackers and governments intercept calls and messages by exploiting vulnerabilities in mobile internetworking protocols. US Government organizations including U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and cybersecurity experts recommend end-to-end encryption for all calls and messages. The chal ... Read more »

Medical device companies pledge to share data that can save the lives of patients LONDON-Thursday, February 22nd 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The medical technology field spans a multi-billion dollar market, and corporate competitiveness has long been viewed as the key to staying ahead. But Joe Kiani, Chairman, and CEO of the medical technology company, Masimo, is bringing fierce competitors together for the sake of patient safety. As a strong advocate for patient safety, Kiani founded the Patient Safety Movement Foundation to stem the needless deaths that occur in hospitals every day through preventable medical error. The goal is zero preventable deaths by 2020. One of the ways to reach such an aggressive goal, says Kiani, is a concept called “interoperability” and he wants to use open data to create a “Patient Data Super Highway” to get to there. “First of all, it’s the right thing to do,” Kiani says. “People are dying because of the lack of data sharing –algorithms ... Read more »

CARDINALITY is selected as a ’10 to Watch’ company by industry analyst firm Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan. GUILDFORD, England-Sunday, February 25th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In their new report, “Digital Transformation Means New Tools for New Business” —part of the Global Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics, and Monetisation (ODAM) stream—Stratecast recognises CARDINALITY for their new approach towards processing big data to deliver applications such as Customer Experience, Operational Intelligence, Network Analytics, Churn Management and Marketing Intelligence. Stratecast identified that the CARDINALITY Perception Platform brings large amounts of data from multiple CSP sources together in order to address a growing group of data analysis needs from different operational work teams and the wider business. It also does this at ingestion rates and storage levels previously thought not practical. "Using design principals tied to microservices and containerized solut ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-Sunday, February 25th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- During UMEX 2018 in Abu Dhabi, Milrem Robotics introduces the next generation THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle intended specifically for desert terrain and hot climates that is also equipped with autonomous capabilities. After IDEX 2017 where the THeMIS was exhibited last, the vehicle stayed in the Emirates and went through rigorous tests in the desert climate and terrain. Knowledge gained from those tests have been incorporated into the new version of the THeMIS, internally designated the Type 4. The new THeMIS is 30 cm longer and has significantly better traction in desert conditions as well as better cooling systems. The vehicle has a larger payload area that can be used to carry different remote weapon systems, surveillance and C-IED equipment etc. Weapon systems integrations have already been done together with Singapore Technologies Kinetics, Aselsan and FN Herstal. The company has als ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates-Sunday, February 25th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] STS the leading private school bus service provider organized the Staff Appreciation Day to commemorate the hard work and efforts of the 2700+ drivers, bus guardians who get over 75,000+ school children home Safely, timely and Smartly daily. A school bus arch entrance and a blue carpet was laid to welcome the entire STS team with stilt-walkers and jugglers to entertain everyone. The day was packed with action right from sport competitions such as cricket, football, volleyball, basketball, tennis between team representing schools across Dubai to professional cheerleaders, bhangra dancers, bollywood and arabic performances all around the venue mading the ambience nothing less than a Premier League game-arena. It was a fun and relaxation day for the staff who otherwise are on their toes everyday ensuring safety of the school students. Fun-interactive games such as Dunk the MD, Sumo-Wrestling, Bungee-run, Tug of war w ... Read more »

SAN FRANCISCO-Wednesday, February 21st 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Andersen name launches in Egypt this week as Maher Milad Iskander and Co., an Egyptian tax and legal firm based in Cairo, formally adopts the name Andersen Tax & Legal. Maher Milad Iskander and Co. became a collaborating firm of Andersen Global in July of 2017 and is one of three that have become member firms and adopted the Andersen name thus far in 2018. Maher Milad Iskander, Managing Partner of Andersen Tax & Legal in Egypt, said, “Andersen Global’s strategy of focusing on outstanding tax and legal services will provide us with many advantages and will allow us to even better serve our cross-border clientele. We are looking forward to our continued work with the Andersen team and to seamlessly providing innovative and client-focused solutions on a global level through our colleagues around the world.” “Egypt is considered to be one of the highest growing markets in the world and our adoption of the ... Read more »