Dear all,

The IFCC Communications and Publications Division (CPD) is pleased to announce the release of the IFCC app on both iOS and Android platforms. The app is free to download from iTunes or Google Play and is the latest communication tool for use by all IFCC officers, member society members, and other lab medicine professionals.

The app is available for both Apple and Android phones or tablets and provides:

• direct access to the IFCC website
• the latest news from IFCC
• IFCC calendar of upcoming conferences and other events
• access to the eAcademy eLearning modules
• ability to browse the latest issues of the eNewsletter and eJournal, even when you are offline

Everything in one place, accessible with a single click.

Search for the app in the Apple AppStore or Google Play using "IFCC" today!

Committee for information and public relations

Dear all,

IFCC, in collaboration with the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) and other supporters, is pleased to present the "Increasing Clinical Effectiveness Award 2016/17".

ICE Award is open to any laboratory medicine specialist. He/she is invited to submit an abstract that describes testing-related interventions and the quantifiable positive impact for patients that they produced. The winners of the ICE Award in 2016/17 will be invited to present their work as part of an IFCC symposium at the IFCC – EFLM EuroMedLab congress in Athens on Tuesday 13 June 2017.

Deadline to present an abstract is 30 September 2016.

All further information is contained in the attached letter.

Dear members,

The IFCC eAcademy is an open educational resource containing distance-learning materials created and/or reviewed by IFCC experts for the continuous professional training development of members of IFCC member organizations. Up to now, these educational materials are composed of about 45 videos available only in English. To facilitate access to this knowledge to a greater number of professionals, IFCC has initiated a project of collaborative translation of these videos to Spanish which means that a large number of people work simultaneously in the translation of videos from English to Spanish.

If you speak English and Spanish (whatever it is your mother or second language), we invite you to contribute to this IFCC project of collaborative translation as a collaborator or reviewer. Those who only speaks English can also help participating in this project by making the video transcript.

Please find the details about this project here.

Committee for information and public relations