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East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Chooses Mobile DR Unit

Agfa HealthCare announces that the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen two DX-D 100+ mobile direct radiography (DR) units for the Burnley Hospital and Royal Blackburn Hospital. These were the first mobile DR systems for the hospitals, and were purchased through a competitive selection.

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CGM AG Becomes CGM SE

During the General Meeting of the company in May 2015, the shareholders have resolved to change the company in to a European Company (Latin Societas Europaea, SE). This resolution is now final and absolute with the registration in the Commercial Register.

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Virtual Reality Therapy could Help People with Depression

An immersive virtual reality therapy could help people with depression to be less critical and more compassionate towards themselves, reducing depressive symptoms, finds a new study from UCL (University College London) and ICREA-University of Barcelona. The therapy, previously tested by healthy volunteers, was used by 15 depression patients aged 23-61.

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£4bn NHS Tech Move will Unleash Confidence in UK Companies

Opinion Article by Donald Kennedy, Managing Director at Patientrack.
New confidence can be taken by healthcare technology and solutions companies across the UK, following the government’s latest announcements on NHS IT investment.

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BridgeHead Software Earns Prestigious Frost & Sullivan Industry Award

BridgeHead Software, the healthcare data management company, today announced that it has received the 2016 European Customer Value Leadership Award by global consulting firm Frost & Sullivan as part of its annual Best Practices Awards.

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Open Call ICT-15-2016-2017: Big Data PPP: Large Scale Pilot Actions in Sectors Best Benefitting from Data-Driven Innovation

European research and development in data technologies produces promising results, but these are not yet deployed at large scale in a systematic manner. The challenge is to stimulate effective piloting and targeted demonstrations in large-scale sectorial actions ("Large Scale Pilot actions"), in data-intensive sectors, involving key European industry actors.

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The conhIT AppCircus Goes in Search of the Best Health App

19 - 21 April 2016, Berlin, Germany.
At conhIT - Connecting Healthcare IT, Europe's leading event for the Health IT industry, a competition will be presenting an award for the best health app once again. The deadline for entering the second edition of the big professional healthcare app competition is 29 February 2016.

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New Milestone for Device that Can 'Smell' Prostate Cancer

A research team from the University of Liverpool has reached an important milestone towards creating a urine diagnostic test for prostate cancer that could mean that invasive diagnostic procedures that men currently undergo eventually become a thing of the past.

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HUS, Finland, Undertakes Clinical Study of Carestream Cone Beam CT

HUS Medical Imaging Center, based in Helsinki, Finland, is undertaking the first European clinical test study of the new CARESTREAM OnSight 3D Extremity System in pre- and post-operative cases. The study of the new cone beam CT (CBCT) scanner and image reconstruction technology, applied within orthopaedic imaging,

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First Patient Treated with LC Bead LUMI™ Radiopaque Embolic Bead Supported by Philips Live Image Guidance

BTG plc (LSE: BTG), a global specialist healthcare company, and Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA), a global leader in image-guided therapy, announced a significant milestone in their collaboration with the treatment of the first liver cancer patient with LC Bead LUMI™ in conjunction with Philips live image guidance, targeting a hypervascular tumor with the goal to block blood flow to achieve tumor necrosis.

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