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Boots UK and Tunstall Healthcare Form Collaboration to Launch Ground-Breaking "Home Assist" Service

Following extensive market testing Boots UK and Tunstall Healthcare have announced the launch of a new service called "Home Assist" which aims to fill a much needed gap in the provision of telecare services to the "non-public funded" market.

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'Pharmacy and m/eHealth' Focus at Med-e-Tel 2016

6 - 8 April 2016, Luxembourg.
For the second consecutive year, the Med-e-Tel 2016 conference program features a focus on 'pharmacy and m/eHealth', presented in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU), together with the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and the European Pharmaceutical Students Association (EPSA).

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Digital Fitness Devices Help Patients Monitor Health and Activity, Improve Outcomes

Many orthopaedic patients are eager to track and improve their health and progress before, during and after treatment. A digital fitness device, technology already owned by 1 in 10 Americans, provides a unique opportunity for patients to monitor their activity levels, medication use, weight, sleep patterns, rehabilitation progress, and

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eHealth Week 2016 Programme Announced

8 - 10 June 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Dutch Presidency of the EU Council, the European Commission and HIMSS Europe have announced the programme for eHealth Week 2016, an event that will take place in Amsterdam. Experts from across Europe will share best practices, amongst others about eMental Health, the online prevention and treatment of mental health conditions.

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Kettering Residents Benefit from 'Sparkle' Treatment Thanks to Kettering Borough Council and Tunstall Healthcare

Kettering Borough Council and Tunstall Healthcare are working together to futureproof ten sheltered housing schemes using connected care solutions as part of the Sparkle project. The project is a five year programme that involves improving sheltered housing schemes across the borough.

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Innovative Systems for Radiology from Siemens

This year's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna will include innovations from Siemens Healthcare in the area of medical imaging and therapy. Siemens' products and solutions help healthcare providers worldwide deal with the challenges of changing healthcare systems.

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The Potential to Enhance the Human Intellect's Existing Capacity to Learn New Skills

It's a case of life imitating art. Much as the sci-fi film "The Matrix" depicted a device capable of enhancing skill acquisition, researchers at HRL Laboratories, LLC, have discovered that low-current electrical brain stimulation can modulate the learning of complex real-world skills.

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Agfa HealthCare's Digital Radiography Platform Achieves "Best-of-Breed" Status According to Frost & Sullivan

In a white paper titled, "Raising the Bar by Lowering the Dose," Frost & Sullivan has concluded that Agfa HealthCare's direct radiography (DR) platform, highlighted by Agfa HealthCare's MUSICA image processing software, is "well differentiated" from the competition and meets "best-of-breed" status by

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Doctor, Patient Expectations Differ on Fitness and Lifestyle Tracking

With apps and activity trackers measuring every step people take, every morsel they eat, and each symptom or pain, patients commonly arrive at doctor's offices armed with minutely detailed data they've been collecting about themselves. Yet health care providers lack the capacity or tools to review five years of Fitbit logs or instantaneously interpret data from dozens of lifestyle, fitness or food tracking apps that a patient might have on a cell phone, according to new research.

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Focus on Connected Medicine at conhIT 2016

19 - 21 April 2016, Berlin, Germany.
For many years the goal of networking the healthcare system, not least in conjunction with the eHealth law, has been a top priority of the Health IT industry. Many of the law's proposals will already come into force this year and the specific applications will accompany the relevant healthcare players over many years.

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