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Philips and Canada's Mackenzie Health Announce CAD 300 Million, 18-year Strategic Partnership

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and Mackenzie Health, a regional healthcare provider serving Southwest York Region in Ontario, Canada, announced a CAD 300 million (approximately EUR 210 million), 18-year large scale alliance that will advance Mackenzie Health's medical technology procurement and maintenance programs for the existing Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital and the future Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, which will be completed in 2019.

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Open Call SC1-HCO-12-2016: Digital Health Literacy

Proposals should provide support for the improvement of digital health literacy of citizens. In particular, proposals should design open access online courses ("MOOCs") for different population cohorts including children and the elderly and other high-risk patient groups, supporting an interactive learning environment. These courses should ensure user-friendliness and involve citizens to co-design, test and implement learning modules that would help them improve their digital health literacy skills.

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New Ultrasound Technology Useful for Imaging of Overweight, Obese Patients

Overweight patients are more difficult to image using ultrasound because greater amounts of tissue weaken sound waves as they pass into the body, which hinders the ability to achieve high-resolution images. Carestream's Touch Prime and Touch Prime XE Ultrasound Systems can provide deep penetration of the abdomen and other areas, which is especially important for large or obese patients.

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MEDICA 2015 and COMPAMED 2015 with a New Set of Dates

16 - 19 November, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Being a significant change, from 16 to 19 November Düsseldorf 2015, the world’s largest medical trade fair, MEDICA, and the international leading supplier specialist trade fair, COMPAMED, which is taking place at the same time, are going to start. From this year on, both events will run over the course of four days in parallel to each other, being held on the new weekdays from Monday to Thursdays.

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CGM SYSTEMA Acquires LMZSOFT AG and Strengthens its Market Position

SYSTEMA Deutschland GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of the global leading eHealth company CompuGroup Medical AG (CGM), concluded a contract for the 100% acquisition of LMZSOFT AG in Saalfeld, thus expanding its market leadership as a software provider for rehabilitation and specialty clinics.

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Open Call SC1-HCO-05-2016: Coordinating Personalised Medicine Research

Support the development and operations of a European platform for collaboration between funders of personalised medicine research, possibly based on the International Consortium model. The platform should coordinate research and innovation efforts across borders, regions and countries. It should foster an interdisciplinary approach to personalised medicine by actively involving relevant interested parties.

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Aridhia Announces Northern Ireland Based Alzheimer's Research Collaboration to Benefit from AnalytiXagility Workspace

Aridhia, the Edinburgh based clinical informatics company, announced that their AnalytiXagility data platform has been chosen to underpin a three year research programme that was awarded Innovate UK funding via the Neurodegenerative Diseases: Business Models and Big Data competition, following a joint bid by three of Northern Ireland’s leading organisations.

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Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging for Radiology Rapidly Embraced by Small and Large Hospitals Across Belgium

Agfa HealthCare announces the successful launch of its Enterprise Imaging for Radiology solution, with multiple hospitals in Belgium going live and more to follow. The platform simplifies the creation of a single comprehensive patient imaging record, empowering physicians to make informed decisions through multi-specialty collaboration, helping improve delivery of patient care and streamlining costs.

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Driving the Connected Healthcare Market to a Wider Standardization

With more than 200,000 connected medical devices currently in the field and a strong position as pioneer and worldwide leader of the connected healthcare market, eDevice was the key representative of the Telehealth industry participating in this first oneM2M Interoperability Test. The result of the tests demonstrated interoperability between eDevice's HealthGO Mini medical hub for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and oneM2M servers from various companies, including Cisco Systems (CSCO), Huawei Technologies, LG, Qualcomm (QCOM), HP & Fraunhofer, amongst others.

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New Computational Approach to Predicting Adverse Drug Reactions with Higher Confidence

A new integrated computational method helps predicting adverse drug reaction - which are often lethal - more reliably than with traditional computing methods. This improved ability to foresee the possible adverse effects of drugs may entail saving many lives in the future. The study that is being conducted by researchers from IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Pompeu Fabra University, and the company Chemotargets, within the framework of the European eTOX project, was chosen for the cover of the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.

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