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UK SMEs Can Play a Crucial Role in Meeting NHS Grand Challenges

Opinion Article by Donald Kennedy, Managing Director, Patientrack.
When clinicians at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sought to become the first in the country to be able to predict when patients were at risk of one of the UK's most deadly conditions, the hospital turned to a small specialist UK company to enter into what would quickly become a strong collaboration.

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Agfa HealthCare Highlights 'Need for Speed' with Enterprise Imaging for Nuclear Medicine at EANM 2015

Agfa HealthCare will showcase how its Enterprise Imaging for Nuclear Medicine helps nuclear medicine departments excel in efficiency, increase clinical throughput and enhance cross-departmental communication, at the 2015 Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), held in Hamburg, Germany, October 10-14.

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ICT 2015 Innovate, Connect, Transform

20 - 22 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
ICT2015 - Innovate, Connect, Transform - aims to bring together over 4500 ICT enthusiasts from all horizons: research, politics, industry, start-ups, investors, academia. The place to be this year is Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Portugal.

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Teva Pharmaceuticals and IBM Partner to Build Global e-Health Solutions on the IBM Watson Health Cloud

IBM (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA) announced that Teva has been selected as its first Foundational Life Sciences Partner for the Watson Health Cloud. As part of this new strategic partnership, Teva becomes the first global pharmaceutical company to tap the power of the Watson Health Cloud to benefit patients and healthcare providers across geographies.

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iMDsoft Launches MetaVision SafeTrack, Its Mobile Electronic Observation Solution

iMDsoft® announced the release of MetaVision SafeTrack™, its new mobile electronic observation solution. The solution automates Modified Early Warning Scores (MEWS) calculations, nursing assessments and escalations, ensuring timely intervention for patient deterioration.

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The European Health Report 2015. Targets and Beyond - Reaching New Frontiers in Evidence. Highlights

The publication of the European health report every three years gives readers - including policy-makers, politicians, public health specialists and journalists - a vital snapshot of health in the WHO European Region and progress towards health and well-being for all. The report also shows trends in and progress towards the goals of Health 2020, the European health policy, and reveals some gaps in progress, inequalities and areas of concern and uncertainty, where action must be taken.

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COCIR eHealth Summit 2015

24 - 25 November 2015, Brussels, Belgium.
Our healthcare systems are suffering from high costs and high fragmentation - often resulting in poor medical outcomes and unjustified clinical variability in medical practices and decision making across the care providers. When looked at holistically, healthcare systems are declared "unsustainable". This second annual eHealth Summit aims to provide key EU and national policy-makers and health stakeholders with a unique opportunity to discuss solutions on how to overcome these challenges and to achieve tangible outcomes that will provide a platform for action.

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Sniffing out Cancer with Improved 'Electronic Nose' Sensors

Scientists have been exploring new ways to "smell" signs of cancer by analyzing what’s in patients’ breath. In ACS’ journal Nano Letters, one team now reports new progress toward this goal. The researchers have developed a small array of flexible sensors, which accurately detect compounds in breath samples that are specific to ovarian cancer. Diagnosing cancer today usually involves various imaging techniques, examining tissue samples under a microscope, or testing cells for proteins or genetic material.

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Philips Appoints Jan Kimpen as Chief Medical Officer

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced the appointment of Jan Kimpen as the company’s Chief Medical Officer, effective January 1, 2016. This function will play an increasingly important role in supporting the company's strategic focus on the HealthTech market and Dr. Kimpen will add a wealth of related experience to Philips' senior management team.

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Brainlab is Driving High Global Demand for Mobile Intraoperative Imaging

Brainlab, a global leader in medical technology, achieves major sales milestone with Airo® Mobile Intraoperative CT in just a little over a year since the first shipment. University of Utah Health Care and Henry Ford Hospital round out the 50 hospitals to have already acquired Airo for enhanced surgical decision-making.

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