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SUSTAINS Project: 25 Partners Meet in Treviso to Talk about Online Access of Patients to Their Personal Clinical Data

For one day, 16th September 2014, Treviso (Italy) is going to become the eHealth capital city in Europe as for online access of patients to their personal clinical data thanks to the project steering committee meeting of SUSTAINS. It is a European initiative that gathers 16 partners from 11 different countries (and 13 EU regions) that aims at studying and experimenting eHealth services that guarantee citizens/patients a direct online access to their personal clinical data.

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New Evidence Points to Outcomes and Cost Benefits of Telemedicine in Managing Chronic Diseases

Congestive heart failure, stroke, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are three of the leading causes of death in the U.S. The use of telemedicine to help manage chronic diseases such as these can yield clear benefits including fewer and shorter hospital stays, fewer emergency room visits, less severe illness, and even fewer deaths, as reported in a study published in Telemedicine and e-Health, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

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Are You a Startup in Digital Health, Smart Energy, Smart Home, or Communication?

Apply now to Next Step Challenge - Europe's most ambitious and unique business development program with a grand prize of €250,000. The application deadline for Next Step Challenge is midnight CET on Tuesday September 30, 2014.

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Horizon 2020 Calls for eHealth Projects: H2020-PHC-2015-Single-Stage and H2020-PHC-2015-Two-Stage

The European Commission is calling for new eHealth projects. They are to be funded under the H2020-PHC-2015-single-stage and H2020-PHC-2015-two-stage sub calls of H2020-PHC-2014-2015. Researchers and innovators in Health IT are requested to apply before 21 April 2015.

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Advanced Health & Care Launches Care Portal for Both Care Workers and Service Users

Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), a leading supplier of IT systems for the care sector, has launched Staffplan Care Portal, a web-based portal, which provides service users and care workers with real-time access to information. The portal will enable care organisations to improve transparency and communication.

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RE.WORK Health Summit

12 - 13 February 2015, Dublin, Ireland.
RE.WORK Health Summit will showcase the opportunities of accelerating technologies and their impact on health and medicine. How will advancing technologies such as telemedicine, stem cells, synthetic biology and robotics affect our future healthcare? Learn from global experts.

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Trans-Atlantic Tele-Robotic Medicine Breakthroughs

While in Germany, Partho P. Sengupta, MD, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai used a computer to perform a robot-assisted trans-Atlantic ultrasound examination on a person in Boston. In another study Kurt Boman, MD, of Umeå University in Sweden in collaboration with Mount Sinai, showed how a cardiologist's video e-consultation, coupled with a remote robot-assisted echocardiogram test, dramatically reduces

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Social Networking Can Help People Lose Weight

Social networking programmes designed to help people lose weight could play a role in the global fight against obesity, according to research. Analysis by researchers from Imperial College London combining the results of 12 previous studies shows that such programmes have achieved modest but significant results in helping participants lose weight.

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Thoracic Patients Benefits from CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital has become the latest hospital to install CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution mobile X-ray units. One of the largest specialist heart and chest hospitals in the UK, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, respiratory medicine including adult cystic fibrosis and diagnostic imaging.

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iPLATO Enrolls 40 GP Practices onto its "Friends & Family Test" Service in Just Three Weeks

iPLATO, the leader in mHealth and Analytics, announced today that it has enrolled 40 GP practices in its 'beta' service for Friends & Family Testing (FFT) between mid-August and the first week of September. New rules mean that GP practices in England must start capturing patient feedback on their performance, in a similar scheme to that used by Hospitals.

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