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Focus on Big Data and Smart Data at conhIT 2016

19 - 21 April 2016, Berlin, Germany.
The digital transition in the healthcare system has made it possible to generate and process enormous amounts of data. This is where 'big data' comes into play, data that is too large or too complex to be evaluated using simple data processing methods.

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eHealth Week 2016 Speakers Announced

8 - 10 June 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Today the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the European Commission and HIMSS Europe announced the first confirmed speakers who will be presenting at eHealth Week 2016.

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Medelinked Platform Now Features Symptom Checker in Medelinked Mobile Health App and as Medelinked Partner Development Programme Open API

Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, now features the Medelinked Symptom Checker integrated as part of the Medelinked mobile health app for Android and iOS.

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Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis, in Beverwijk, Netherlands, Becomes Second in Country to Implement Enterprise Imaging for Radiology

Agfa HealthCare announces today that the Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis (RKZ) hospital in Beverwijk, the Netherlands, has switched from IMPAX to Enterprise Imaging for Radiology. This solution offers a single, completely unified imaging platform providing image management, reporting, advanced image processing and integration of clinical information.

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St. Franziskus Stiftung in Germany Expands Its Choice of the MetaVision Clinical Information System by iMDsoft

iMDsoft announced that St. Franziskus Stiftung in Germany will be implementing MetaVision in the ICUs, IMCs and ORs of four hospitals, in an additional 132 beds. The foundation, located in Münster, is responsible for eleven acute medicine and three specialist hospitals, as well as five institutions for the handicapped and the elderly.

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Orion Health Builds Momentum in UK, Signs Contracts in England and Scotland

Orion Health (OHE:NZX/ASX) has signed two contracts that will significantly extend its presence in the United Kingdom. It will provide a comprehensive technology solution for two leading hospitals in London, and it will implement an integrated health and social care solution for NHS Fife in east Scotland.

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Are Humans the New Supercomputer?

The saying of philosopher René Descartes of what makes humans unique is beginning to sound hollow. 'I think - therefore soon I am obsolete' seems more appropriate. When a computer routinely beats us at chess and we can barely navigate without the help of a GPS, have we outlived our place in the world? Not quite. Welcome to the front line of research in cognitive skills, quantum computers and gaming.

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UMANICK has been Selected to Join the FIWARE Accelerator VIP Programme

UMANICK has been selected among over 800 European start-ups from different sectors belonging to FIWARE Accelerator to enter its VIP Programme. UMANICK entered the eHealth accelerator of the European Commission, FICHe (Future Internet Challenge eHealth), in January 2015. FICHe is one of 16 FIWARE accelerators operating in different areas, being the only one dedicated to health.

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Mathematics to Fight Cancer

Mathematicians and physicians at the University of Bonn have developed a new model for immunotherapy of cancer. The method could help to develop new treatment strategies and to understand why some approaches do not work with certain tumors. The study is now appearing in the technical journal Scientific Reports.

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Siemens Healthcare and Thermo Fisher Announce New Strategic Relationship in Molecular Testing

In a joint effort to provide customers with one of the most advanced solutions for molecular testing, Siemens Healthcare and Thermo Fisher Scientific have announced a new strategic relationship that includes the integration of Thermo Fisher Scientific's real-time PCR system into Siemens' VERSANT® kPCR Molecular Solution.

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