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Funding Opportunity: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)

Mixed consortia of robot manufacturers and research institutes have the opportunity to apply for a total funding of 1.2 million Euros in a competitive process in order to develop small-scale test series as solutions for the given challenge. AQuAS (Agència de Qualitat I Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya), a public entity of the Catalan Department of Health, and Fundació Privada Sant Antoni Abat, a non-profit private foundation managing and developing innovation and research in healthcare, have defined the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) challenge.

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d-LIVER Workshop: Improving Clinical Care and Patient Quality of Life in Advanced Liver Disease

27 May 2015, Milan, Italy.
The d-LIVER project announces a Showcase Workshop to introduce new technological solutions to improve clinical care and patient quality of life in advanced liver disease. d-LIVER has developed a home monitoring system for remote patient management and a bio-artificial liver support device.

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Coordinate My Care Selects InterSystems HealthShare to Enhance Coordination of Urgent Care Plans

InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, today announced that Coordinate My Care (CMC) has selected InterSystems to provide innovative solutions for the coordination of urgent care. Using InterSystems technology, CMC will ensure that patients with serious chronic health conditions, or those receiving palliative care, get the treatment they have personally approved in partnership with their doctors or nurses.

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MyAirCoach: Involving Patients to Develop a Mobile System to Self-manage Asthma

Despite the wide availability of asthma therapies, many people with asthma still experience lots of symptoms impacting significantly on their quality of life. In line with this year's World Asthma Day theme "You can control your asthma", myAirCoach, a leading pan-European project is recruiting patients to develop a monitoring device which

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New Gold Standard Established for Open and Reproducible Research

A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new gold standard for openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the more than 200GB of data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest results - an unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publication.

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Join the Largest eHealth Gathering of the Year

11 - 13 May 2015, Riga, Latvia.
Part of the European eHealth Community? Don't miss out on the event of the year. Join eHealth Week 2015 and embark upon three full days of exchanging knowledge and sharing best practices amongst health IT representatives of the highest level from the 28 EU Member States.

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SAP Helps Simplify Personalized Medicine to Fight Cancer and Other Illnesses

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) has announced an expanded commitment and significant progress in its effort to make the benefits of personalized medicine available to more patients fighting cancer and other serious illnesses.

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Image Analysis Ltd. Secures $5.2m to Expand Software and Services for Quantification of MRI in Immune and Oncology Conditions

Image Analysis Ltd., a privately-held digital health software and services provider of medical imaging analysis in clinical trials and daily clinical practice, has completed a $5.2m venture financing with Danish Research Foundation (DRF) and RBV Capital.

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Philips Launches Innovative 3D Navigation System to Enhance Minimally Invasive Treatment of Vascular Disease

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced the launch of VesselNavigator*, its latest innovation in live 3D catheter navigation to guide the minimally invasive treatment of patients with vascular diseases such as aortic aneurysms (ballooning of the aorta).

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Become a HIMSS Europe Governing Council Member in 2015

The HIMSS Europe Governing Council invites nominations for three vacancies on the HIMSS Governance Council for a three year term to begin on 1 July, 2015 and end 30 June, 2018.

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