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Imaging Stroke Risk in 4D

Affecting 33.5 million patients worldwide, atrial fibrillation is the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia. As if having an irregular heart beat wasn't troubling enough, patients with atrial fibrillation are also much more likely to have a stroke. "Atrial fibrillation is thought to be responsible for 20 to 30 percent of all strokes in the United States," said Northwestern University's Michael Markl, the Lester B. and Frances T. Knight Professor of Cardiac Imaging. "While atrial fibrillation is easy to detect and diagnose, it's not easy to predict who will suffer a stroke because of it."

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Open Call FETOPEN-01-2016-2017: FET-Open Research and Innovation Actions

The successful exploration of new foundations for radically new future technologies requires supporting a large set of early stage, high risk visionary science and technology projects to investigate new ideas. Here agile, risk-friendly and highly interdisciplinary research approaches are needed with collaborations that are open to all sciences and disciplines and that dissolve the traditional boundaries between them.

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Norway Hosts the European Telemedicine Conference (ETC) 2016

15 - 16 November 2016, Oslo, Norway.
The European Telemedicine Conference (ETC) is co-organized with EHiN Future Health (E-health in Norway). This large conference assembles the best people from the European e-health and telemedicine environments for two intense and fun days of hard work, discussion, networking and learning.

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The Philips Foundation, CurArte Foundation and Hospital Vall d'Hebrón Announce 'Imatgina'

The Philips Foundation, CurArte Foundation and Hospital Vall d'Hebrón today announced 'Imatgina', an advanced patient-centric initiative in paediatric radiology that aims to improve the experience children have during diagnostic imaging tests. The goal of the initiative is to enhance the experience for these children by creating a friendly atmosphere that dispels the uncertainty and fear usually associated with these types of procedures.

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Carestream Awarded RIS Solution in Denmark

Carestream has been awarded a RIS solution for two sites in the Region Capital of Denmark. The CARESTREAM Vue RIS solution will replace existing systems at Rigshospitalet, the National University Hospital, based in Blegdamsvej and Glostrup, part of Greater Copenhagen, to enhance radiology workflow. Installation is expected to be completed by the end of 2016. The 1361-bed hospital carries out around 330,000 exams each year.

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eHealth Trends & Talks

The digitization of the healthcare sector is in a phase of dynamic development. More and more countries are already implementing - or in coming years they are going to implement - eHealth strategies, healthcare providers are investing boldly in It infrastructure and companies and start-ups are introducing increasingly modern mobile solutions to the market. The expectations of patients, doctors and nurses are rising along with their digital awareness. We are witnessing the crystallization of the new healthcare reality, where information serves as a pill with the power to solve many of today's problems.

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Agfa HealthCare DR Solutions and MUSICA Support Royal United Hospitals Bath, UK, to Optimize Patient Care and Enhance Informed Care Decisions

Agfa HealthCare announces today that its top-of-the-line, ceiling-suspended direct radiography (DR) solutions will support the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, UK, to optimize patient care and enhance informed care decisions, through the excellent image quality and the potential to reduce patient imaging radiation dose.

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CCGs Using New Online Marketplace to Support Personalisation and Take-up of Personal Health Budgets

Chiltern CCG and Aylesbury Vale CCG are working with one of the UK's largest commissioning support units to pioneer the use of a new simple and easy-to-use tool that delivers a seamless, end-to-end process for the delivery of personal health budgets. The clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are using PHBChoices, the new online marketplace that connects health and care suppliers with Personal Health Budget (PHB) holders.

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Using Twitter as a Data Source for Studying Public Communication about Cardiovascular Health

Person-to-person communication is one of the most persuasive ways people deliver and receive information. Until recently, this communication was impossible to collect and study. Now, social media networks, such as Twitter, allow researchers to systematically witness public communication about health, including cardiovascular disease. Twitter is used by more than 300 million people who have generated several billion Tweets, yet little work has focused on the potential applications of these data for studying public attitudes and behaviors associated with cardiovascular health.

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European Award for Orion Health's Population Health Management Technology

Orion Health has been awarded the 2016 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership, recognising the company's pioneering approach to population health management (PHM), supporting its vision for delivering precision medicine. Global research and consulting organisation Frost & Sullivan conducted a recent analysis of the PHM solutions market and praised Orion Health for the "unmatched reliability and quality" of its technology, compared to other electronic health record (EHR) vendors.

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