Thank you to everyone who attended CIMT's opening event on Friday 24 January and helped make the day a great success

CIMT is to contribute to research in health technology in the Region of Southern Denmark and make the efforts more evident in Denmark and internationally. And participants from the centre's international network were on the list of speakers at the opening - adjunct professor at SDU Kevin Dean, by the British Health Service in November 2013 placed among the 50 Top Innovators in England - as well as Professor Sir George Crooks from the national health authority NHS in Scotland and Line Linstad, head of department at the National Centre for Communication and Telemedicine, Tromsø.

Stephanie Lose, member of the regional council for the Venstre party, and Executive Director Peder Jest also spoke at the opening about the new and formalised collaboration between hospital and university and the many innovation projects and PhD studies that are now included under CIMT.

The centre will establish collaboration between researchers at SDU with knowledge of new technologies and clinicians at OUH with knowledge of patients' needs. In this way, the centre becomes a catalyst for the development and deployment of new technologies at OUH, said Peder Jest, who welcomed the centre in his capacity as chairman of the new Innovation Council, which consists of representatives from the management at OUH and SDU, and who must set the course for CIMT's activities.