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Eminent Enterprise Technology Leader Joins Orion Health as Executive Vice President for EMEA

Experienced enterprise technology leader Jonathan Selby is to join Orion Health as Executive Vice President for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region following incumbent Wayne Oxenham's promotion to President of the firm's US business.

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Ebola, Big Data, Childhood Cancers and Medicines Safety Feature in New IMI Call

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has launched two Calls for proposals that will advance medicines development in critical areas such as Ebola, childhood cancers, neurological disorders, and eye disease. The Calls will also add to IMI's growing programme on Big Data for Better Outcomes.

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Hebrew University Scientists Use Computational Neuroscience to Unravel Brain's Mysteries

In new research published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of scientists from the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, in the Faculty of Medicine, unraveled a longstanding mystery of a fundamental property of the brain.

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Open Call SC1-PM-04-2016: Networking and Optimising the Use of Population and Patient Cohorts at EU Level

Proposals should aim at maximizing the exploitation of cohorts by bringing together national and/or European cohorts with common scientific interests (e.g. across diseases, children, mothers, elderly, birth, gender, etc.), and by taking advantage of new technologies (e.g. ICT, social platforms, etc.) and new type of data (e.g. geographical, genetic, eHealth records, etc.).

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XENiOS® Will Seek Regulatory Approval for i-lung®

XENiOS®, a commercial-stage medical device company, announced today it expects to receive CE-marking for its i-lung® device within 18 months. XENIOS expects to launch i-lung® in 2017. Currently available devices lack durability and wearability. Additionally, the size of current systems restricts patient mobility and limits quality of life.

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eHealth Ireland Announces Consultation Process for EHR Priorities

The Chief Information Officer of the HSE Richard Corbridge has launched a public consultation process on a range of matters regarding a new national Electronic Health Record (EHR). A national EHR is a comprehensive and combined solution that supports the creation, management and sharing of key patient information.

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Women Can Now Track Their Fertility with Apple Watch

Knowing when to get pregnant may be one of the most important pieces of personal health information. Yet, a recent study conducted on 3,000 men and women across the US, UK and Sweden, reveals that less than 30% are aware of how the female body works.(1) Natural Cycles, the clinically-tested fertility app, aims to change that and announced the launch of their Apple Watch app.

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Wolters Kluwer Expands UpToDate with Primary Care Sports Medicine

The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that it has added primary care sports medicine to UpToDate®, its evidence-based clinical decision support resource, marking the 23rd medical specialty available to subscribing clinicians and healthcare institutions around the world.

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Ascom Acquires the Italian Medical Software Company UMS

Ascom has acquired the Italian software company UMS (United Medical Software), which provides integrations for medical devices and supplies digital medical records software solutions for life-critical patient care. With the acquisition of UMS, Ascom will gain access to new software and competence for global integrated workflow solutions in Healthcare ICT.

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Med-e-Tel 2016 Call for Abstracts

6 - 8 April 2016, Luxembourg.
Join Med-e-Tel 2016 - 14th edition - and actively participate in the educational and information program of seminars, workshops, demonstrations and interactive panel discussions on eHealth, Telemedicine and ICT applications in medicine, health and social care. Med-e-Tel is the official event of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, the international federation of national associations who represent their country's Telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders.

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