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Healthcast to Present at Health 2.0 Europe in Barcelona

Healthcast, a Luxembourg eHealth startup, will present its solution to the Zika crisis at the Health 2.0 conference in Barcelona on 12th May. Healthcast empowers individuals to give best-practice care at home when a loved one is ill.

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Exclusive Partnership to Further Develop MR Fingerprinting

At the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Singapore, Case Western Reserve University and Siemens Healthcare will announce an exclusive research partnership to further develop a quantitative imaging method known as Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF).

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Joined-Up Health & Care Conference to Share Interoperability Stories from Lincolnshire to New York

InterSystems, a global leader in health information technology, will bring pioneers from across the world to Sutton Coldfield in May, to share ground-breaking stories on how joining-up health and social care is becoming a reality.

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New Oncology Workflow with Advanced Toolset can Help Improve Reading, Reporting for Cancer Patients

Carestream now offers an oncology reading workflow for PET/CT studies that equips clinicians with new native tools for its enterprise image management system that deliver both quantitative and qualitative information to help improve and expedite the reading process.

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Smartphone App for Monitoring Heart Palpitations is Comparable to 14-day Event Monitor

A smartphone app that tracks palpitations in heart patients provides comparable performance to the 14-day event monitors that are the current standard of care, according to a University at Buffalo study presented May 4th at the annual Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) meeting in San Francisco.

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New Tool Measures Lung Function over the Phone

Most people in the developing world who have asthma, cystic fibrosis or other chronic lung diseases have no way to measure how well their lungs are functioning outside of a clinic or doctor visit. But many do have access to a phone, though it may be a 10-year-old flip phone or a communal village landline instead of the latest app-driven smartphone.

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Can We Make the Hospital a Safer Place at Night?

Opinion Article by Caroline Chapman, Nurse Consultant for Hospital at Night, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust.
In the dead of night, when the rest of the world sleeps, ward nurses up and down the country are calling the Hospital at Night service. They may be looking for a technician to take a blood sample or calling for medical help as one of their patients suddenly deteriorates.

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Open Call SC1-PM-14-2016: EU-Japan Cooperation on Novel ICT Robotics Based Solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing at Home or in Care Facilities

The call will address joint research and innovation proposals for developing and demonstrating advanced ICT Robotics based solutions for extending active and healthy ageing in daily life. Proposals should build on advances in this domain, and should combine multi-disciplinary research involving behavioural, sociological, health and other relevant disciplines.

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Agfa HealthCare and Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris Extend Collaboration on ORBIS Health Information System Project

Agfa HealthCare announces today that, following its original seven-year Health Information System deployment contract with Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) which achieved the deployment of ORBIS* at more than half of the AP-HP hospitals, the parties have extended their relationship for another four years with the signing of a new service agreement on 21 March, 2016.

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Doctors 2.0 & YOU 2016

26 - 27 May, Paris, France.
Doctors 2.0 & YOU, the International Digital Health Congress that offers to every health professionals the opportunity to understand how to use new technologies, web 2.0 tools and social media in health.

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