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EMC Consulting Group is a pan-global management consulting firm that focuses on healthcare management. EMC serves as an adviser to Europe’s leading non-profit organisations, healthcare companies and institutions. It is widely recognized as a leader in healthcare management communications.

Organization
EMC Consulting Group is a limited company registered in Belgium serving the following fields: - Strategic healthcare management consulting - E-health and education - Media, public relations and communications - Event Cocooning - Congress and conference participation - Association representation and lobbying - EU project communications

Healthcare Management
The EMC Consulting Group is the only European player exclusively dealing with healthcare management concerns, addressing these new challenges by offering solutions for running departments, hospitals and healthcare institutions. Based on best practices, the latest management innovations and high-quality care, EMC provides a significant contribution to advance the pan-European and the international healthcare systems in disseminating management practices and ideas to the wider healthcare community. The increasing pressures on healthcare systems, with budget cuts alongside higher demands and expectations from patients, it is currently a highly challenging and complex task to cope with existing management issues. To promote cross-departmental understanding, EMC has developed a 'Editorial Matrix' which addresses the most urgent issues through problem-solving solutions from the viewpoint of each individual stakeholder concerned. This results in a holistic overview to meet the complex challenges in each specific marketplace. EMC serves the following target audiences: - CEOs, CMOs and hospital directors - CIOs, heads and managers of IT departments - Heads and managers of the following departments: EMCs main aim is to deliver the highest quality management information in an easy-to-access format via publications and websites to an audience of over 500,000 specialists.
 * Radiology
 * Cardiology
 * Critical care and emergency medicine
 * Surgery
 * Hospital pharmacy
 * Facility management
 * Nursing
 * Laboratory

Association Partners
EMC Consulting Group works closely with respected strategic partners in the healthcare industry. European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (http://www.hitm.eu/) The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) is the pan-European umbrella organisation of national associations representing CIOs and healthcare IT managers. Given the infant stage of such communities in several countries, HITM allows direct membership as well. HITM is unifying this highly fragmented market and stands for common standards, best practices and excellent management of IT departments. European Association of Hospital Managers (http://www.eahm.eu.org/) The European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) is the world's largest umbrella organisation representing CEOs, hospital managers and CMOs in Europe. With an active membership of 16,000, it is the most influential interest representation of its kind. EAHM's Secretary-General is the Editor-in-Chief of (E-)Hospital, the official voice of EAHM; its Vice President is the President of the Editorial Board, thus enforcing the close links with (E-)Hospital. Management in Radiology (http://www.mir-online.org/) Management in Radiology (MIR) is the subcommittee on Management of the European Society of Radiology. MIR provides a forum for education and exchange of ideas and state of the art concepts on management within Europe aimed at enhancing the contribution of Radiology to medicine. MIR addresses not only core managerial issues, but also supportive methods and techniques, especially information and communication technology. European Society for the promotion of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems in Medicine (http://www.europacs.org/) The European Society for the promotion of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems in Medicine (EuroPACS) has its core interest in medical images embedded into electronic healthcare, whatever the producer (radiology, nuclear medicine, surgery, cardiology and other clinical fields). The objective of the Association is to promote the exchange of information in the fields of research, user experience, implementation, assessment and audit of the benefit of the development and the use of digital systems for the acquisition, storage, transport, processing, display and reproduction of medical pictures (PACS) and related technologies as well as their integration in the eHealth context. International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (http://www.intensive.org/) The International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) is organised by the department of Intensive Care Emergency Medicine of Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, in association with the Belgian Society of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (SIZ). The Symposium has been held every year in March, in Brussels since 1980. Today, it is the largest in its field attracting more than 4700 participants from countries worldwide. In collaboration with ISICEM, EMC publishes the Official Management and Practice Journal of the Congress.

Publishing
EMC Consulting Group is actively involved in several healthcare publications. (E)Hospital, the official Journal of the European Association of Hospital Managers (http://www.myhospital.eu). (E)Hospital is the leading journal designed specifically to support best practice in management. It covers topics such as best practice, medical safety, better value-for-money investments, cost savings, imaging informatics and optimal patient and staff satisfaction. By covering all topics that assist the development of more efficient, cost- and consumer-friendly hospital services, it provides insight into and analysis of the constantly evolving field of running a hospital efficiently.

Healthcare IT Management (HIT), the official voice of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (http://hitm.eu). HIT connects CIOs, IT managers, specialists and practitioners in the healthcare IT sector (hospitals, private and public clinics, healthcare institutes) across Europe and deals with the most pressing topics in the health IT such as digital diagnostics, e-Health, medical informatics, telemedicine, data security, by promoting best practices and common management standards in the departments of IT, radiology, cardiology, laboratory, administration etc.

ICU Management, the official Management and Practice Journal of the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) (http://icu-management.org/). Based on the most recent clinical developments, ICU Management (ICU) focuses on best practice, efficiency, better value-for-money investments, cost savings, ethics and optimal patient and staff satisfaction. ICU is, thus the point of reference in the ever more sophisticated area of critical care and emergency medicine.

IMAGING Management, in collaboration with Management in Radiology (MIR), IHE, EuroPacs and CARS (http://imagingmanagement.org) IMAGING Management is Europe’s leading journal raising awareness of the central importance of good management practices to the delivery of optimal healthcare services in the field of radiology and related imaging disciplines. It covers issues such as medical quality and safety, financial management, healthcare informatics and optimal patient and staff satisfaction within the field of imaging.

Cardiology Management (http://cardiologymanagement.eu) is the leading journal designed specifically to support best practice in management in the imaging industry, and covers topics such as best practice, medical safety, better value-for-money investments, cost savings, cardiology informatics and optimal patient and staff satisfaction. By covering all topics that assist the development of more efficient, cost- and consumer-friendly imaging services, it provides insight into and analysis of the constantly evolving field of cardiology management.

IT@Networking Communications is the most innovative communications channel to educate both hospital director and healthcare IT mangers and is published as a supplement to (E)Hospital and Healthcare IT Management.

Web Services
EMC Consulting Group provides through its websites educational support to the healthcare employees.

Editorial Services
EMC Consulting Group provides editorial services to the healthcare community.

Layout and Design Services
EMC Consulting Group provides layout and design services to the healthcare community.

Broadcast Services
EMC Consulting Group provides broadcast services, Event coverage, corporate film and video services to its clients in the healthcare community.