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Caradigm to Launch Mobile Solution for the Hospital Ward Round

Caradigm is planning to launch its new Ward Round application, a solution for hospital wards that will help replace existing paper-based processes for collecting information at the point of care. The ward round is where patient care is reviewed and planned, and consequently where most clinical decisions are made and reviewed: what tests to order, what treatments to change and when the patient is safe to be discharged.

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Philips Expands Global Reach of Diagnostic X-Ray Solutions

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG AEX: PHIA) has announced expanded availability of its portfolio of diagnostic X-ray solutions, including DuraDiagnost, DigitalDiagnost, MobileDiagnost wDR, MobileDiagnost Opta, ProGrade and PrimaryDiagnost. With new releases of several of these solutions now available in the U.S.A., and availability of all these solutions in new global markets, the portfolio offers Philips' customers innovative solutions designed to meet the needs and overcome the challenges of diagnostic X-ray environments across the world.

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Open Call PHC-27-2015 Self-management of Health and Disease and Patient Empowerment Supported by ICT

Empowering citizens and patients to manage their own health and disease can result in more cost-effective healthcare systems by enabling the management of chronic diseases outside institutions, improving health outcomes, and by encouraging healthy citizens to remain so. Several clinical situations would be prevented or better monitored and managed with the participation of the patient him or herself. Care sciences may complement the medical perspective without increasing the cost.

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VTT Develops a Simple but Extremely Sensitive Magnetometer

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an innovative magnetometer that can replace conventional technology in applications such as neuroimaging, mineral exploration and molecular diagnostics. Its manufacturing costs are between 70 and 80 per cent lower than those of traditional technology, and the device is not as sensitive to external magnetic fields as its predecessors.

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University of Bradford and Philips Collaborate to Bring Digital Pathology Training to Students

The University of Bradford is collaborating with Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) to provide hi-tech, digital pathology training for both undergraduate and graduate students, a unique offering in the UK. Part of the School of Life Sciences, the Bradford Pathology program is using Philips Digital Pathology Solutions to educate students in the design and delivery of diagnostic pathology in the context of the modern laboratory.

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Open Call PHC-25-2015 Advanced ICT Systems and Services for Integrated Care

Research on new models of care organisation demonstrates that advanced ICT systems and services may have the potential to respond to, amongst others, the increasing burden of chronic disease and the complexity of co-morbidities and in doing so contribute to the sustainability of health and care systems.

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Hitachi and The Guardian Host Debate on Technology, Social Innovation and the Future of Healthcare

26 November 2014, London, UK.
Hitachi Europe Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501, "Hitachi") has announced that in association with The Guardian, it will be hosting a seminar on Social Innovation and the Future of Healthcare.

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Opinion Article: How the NHS Can Sweat its Data Assets

By Dr. Chris Tackaberry, CEO of Clinithink.
At a time of increasing demand and dwindling resources, organisations such as the NHS have an opportunity to exploit two of the most valuable assets they already hold, that is information about those who use its services, and the technology to record this. NHS hospitals are able to use an electronic patient record (EPR) as the system to bring these assets together.

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eHealth Lessons for High School Students in the Veneto Region, Italy

There are 99 classes in 14 High Schools in all the 7 provinces of the Veneto Region that are involved in @Two!Salute!, educational experience promoted by Arsenàl.IT in collaboration with the Veneto Region (Italy) and all the regional public local health authorities. The project aims at involving students in innovation applied to healthcare, making them conscious users and active promoters of eHealth services. The first lesson is going taking place into the ITC Calvi High School in Belluno on the 24th November.

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Agfa HealthCare Launches DX-D 40 for Instant DR

Agfa HealthCare has announced the launch of its DX-D 40 digital detector with Automatic Exposure Detection (AED), offering a fast and easy way for radiography facilities to benefit from high-quality digital imaging using any X-ray equipment. Wireless and cable-free, it allows healthcare facilities, regardless of size or budget, to cost-effectively upgrade film and Computed Radiography (CR) mobile X-ray units to Digital Radiography (DR).

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