Focus on Patient 2.0 at conhIT 2015
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14 - 16 April 2015, Berlin, Germany.Most people take social media for granted nowadays and very few can imagine life without a mobile phone. Only the healthcare sector continues to create barriers. Patient 2.0, however, refuses to be excluded from progress: at conhIT 2015 in Berlin, experts will be discussing how medical facilities and, in particular, suppliers of traditional healthcare IT solutions should address these developments if they don't want to lose out on them.
AAL Programme Call 2015 - Living Actively and Independently at Home
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The 2015 Call Challenge of the AAL Programme aims to fund ICT based innovative, transnational and multi-disciplinary collaborative projects with a clear market orientation that support older adults to live:
Philips and Mount Sinai Health System Collaborate to Advance Clinical Research through New Digital Pathology Database and Analytics
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Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHIA) today announced a joint development agreement with the Mount Sinai Health System, an integrated health system in New York, to create a state-of-the-art digital image repository of patient tissue samples and innovative data analytics to pursue the discovery of new tissue-based tests and unlock pathology data.
iPLATO Patient Care Messaging Reaches 10 Million Patients in England
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iPLATO the UK's leader in Health Tech announces today that its flagship GP service, iPLATO Patient Care Messaging now reaches more than 10 million patients through over 1,000 GP practices in England. iPLATO Patient Care Messaging allows practices to set up automated appointment reminders and to run high performance mobile patient engagement using text messaging as its primary communication channel.
Text Message Reminders Boost Breast Cancer Screening Attendance
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Six HIMSS EMRAM Stage 6 Hospitals Awarded at HIMSS Turkey Educational Conference & Exhibition
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20 - 21 March 2015, Antalya, Turkey.Six Turkish hospitals will be awarded the prestigious Stage 6 EMRAM award for demonstrating outstanding levels of IT implementation ensuring superior healthcare services and much increased patient safety.
Tech-Savvy Seniors Want Online Options to Access Care from Home
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An Accenture (NYSE:ACN) survey shows a growing demand among tech-savvy seniors (67 percent) who want to access healthcare services from home, but the majority (66 percent) are worried today's technology isn't sufficient to do so.
Why Attend mHealth Summit Europe 2015
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11 - 12 May 2015, Riga, Latvia.The mHealth Summit Europe will be back in 2015 as a part of eHealth Week. The Summit will be opening eHealth Week like no other event, providing international thought leadership on how we can fulfil the mHealth promise with a focus on "Energizing the mHealth Agenda in Europe". The event addresses opportunities and challenges, as well as strategies for taking mHealth from pilots to true implementation.
Anoto Awarded Major Digital Pen Contract by the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust
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Anoto, the leader in digital writing technology, today announced that the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST) has awarded a contract to roll-out 1,700 digital pens to ambulance crews across Wales. The contract that is led by Vodafone UK, is for an initial three year term and follows a highly successful pilot of Anoto's digital writing technology with paramedics at the Swansea Ambulance station in 2013.
Why Attend eHealth Week 2015
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11 - 13 May 2015, Riga, Latvia.Taking place during the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, eHealth Week 2015 comprises of two main events: the High Level eHealth Conference organised by the Latvian Ministry of Health and the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and WoHIT (World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition) organised by HIMSS Europe.