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CHU de Charleroi and Carestream Sharing Success

CHU de Charleroi, is a large, multi-site public hospital organisation based in Belgium's fifth biggest city. It has 1,424 beds and almost 5,000 members of staff, working in most medical and surgical disciplines. In line with its aim to provide high quality care and a superior experience to all patients, CHU de Charleroi is working with Carestream Health to ensure patient information, including multimedia clinical objects, can be shared securely and reliably across its sites and with authorised external parties.

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Agfa HealthCare and Ipswich Hospital Sign New Contract for Transition to Enterprise Imaging for Radiology

Agfa HealthCare announces has signed a new agreement with The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust to transition to the integrated Enterprise Imaging for Radiology platform, helping the Trust achieve its clinical and integration goals.

Ipswich Hospital is a district general hospital in Suffolk, England, providing a wide range of services to the population of East Suffolk. With around 800 beds, it serves a catchment area of approximately 360,000 people.

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Autism, Diabetes, Cancer & Pain in New IMI Call for Proposals

Autism, diabetes, cancer and pain are among the topics for the €348 million 10th Call for proposals launched under the IMI2 programme. Other topics in the Call focus on: the creation of a European network for clinical trials in children; the biomanufacture of certain medicines; the need to include the patient perspective in medicines development; and the role of certain genes in disease.

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New Social Care Robot Challenge Launched for UK Robotics Week 2017

A brand new Social Care Robot Challenge is being launched for the second annual UK Robotics Week 2017, a national week of celebration taking place from 24th - 30th June 2017. The new Social Care Robot Challenge is a national co-operative venture that will bring together UK experts from both academia and industry to advance the integration of robots into healthcare - including services designed to support older people and those living with long-term health conditions.

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Philips Announces New Augmented-Reality Surgical Navigation Technology Designed for Image-Guided Spine, Cranial and Trauma Surgery

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a leader in integrated image-guided therapy solutions, today announced the development of an industry-first augmented-reality surgical navigation technology that is designed to help surgeons perform image-guided open and minimally-invasive spine surgery.

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What Kind of Selfie Taker Are You?

You do it. Your mom, dad, siblings and friends probably do too. World leaders and entertainers do it - though some better than others. Your friend did it on her vacation last week and you gave her a thumbs-up. But why?

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Philips and Illumina Join Forces to Offer Integrated Genomics Solutions for Oncology

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN), the global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, have announced a strategic collaboration that aims to integrate Illumina's sequencing systems for large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function and Philips' IntelliSpace Genomics clinical informatics platform,

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Novo Nordisk and Glooko Partner to Develop Digital Health solutions for People with Diabetes

Novo Nordisk and Glooko today announced that the two companies will work together to deliver jointly-developed and branded digital health solutions for people with diabetes. The non-exclusive collaboration will combine Novo Nordisk's deep knowledge of diabetes with Glooko's digital platform and data analytics expertise.

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MetaVision by iMDsoft Certified by Haute Autorité De Santé (HAS) for Hospital Prescription Support Software

iMDsoft®, a leader in clinical information systems, is proud to announce that the MetaVision® clinical information system is now certified by Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) for hospital prescription support software (LAP Certification). This certification attests that MetaVision's functionalities help improve the quality of prescribing, facilitate the job of the prescribing physician, promote regulatory compliance for prescriptions and reduce the cost of treatment of equal quality.

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Philips Highlights Cloud-Based Innovations at the Forefront of Digital Health

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is showcasing innovative connected health products and solutions that empower consumers to become ever-more engaged in their health. Leveraging Philips' expertise in the consumer and professional healthcare domains, and the advanced analytics and computing power of the company's secure HealthSuite cloud platform,

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