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Isn't it Time that UK Family Doctors Embraced Email Services for their Patients?

The UK government sees the use of email contact and e-consultations as a means of boosting patient access to primary care and is piloting these services in 20 general practices in England. It has mandated email communication for repeat prescriptions and appointment booking in the latest general practice contract and stipulated that patients should be able to communicate electronically with their health and social care team by 2015.

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ClinicalKey Enhanced to Think the Way Clinicians Do

Elsevier, the world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, has launched an enhanced version of its flagship clinical resource, ClinicalKey, following extensive research on the search behaviours of clinicians.

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Health Fabric Supports NHS England in Digital Transformation Challenge

Digital health experts Health Fabric are backing the drive for digital transformation in the NHS with extensive support for the 2014/15 NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes and the winners of the digital patient and clinician engagement category. This category challenges NHS organisations to show how they can use information, communications or diagnostic technologies to connect patients and clinicians as partners in their care.

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Call for Papers Announced for conhIT Congress 2015

14 - 16 April 2015, Berlin, Germany.
The Congress plays an important part in enabling exhibitors and visitors at conhIT to keep abreast of latest developments. Practical orientated lectures are in the foreground. Taking "Shaping the Future with Health IT" as its slogan, the Congress will feature 18 sessions on key industry topics in three congress halls.

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Finnish Researchers Developing a Digital Maternity Package

Every Finnish expectant mother can choose to receive a free of charge maternity package containing baby clothes and other useful items. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is currently developing a digital maternity package with the purpose of gathering reliable health information provided by various smart devices, electronic services, and guides into a single user interface.

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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust Selects Allscripts Sunrise

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) and Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) are delighted to announce WWL's decision to implement the Allscripts SunriseTM solution as WWL's new health information system. The system will be implemented across all three WWL sites and will completely transform the way WWL delivers healthcare in the future.

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Researchers Demonstrate Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Human Subjects

In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team of neuroscientists and robotics engineers have demonstrated the viability of direct brain-to-brain communication in humans. Recently published in PLOS ONE the highly novel findings describe the successful transmission of information via the internet between the intact scalps of two human subjects - located 5,000 miles apart.

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A Safer Approach for Diagnostic Medical Imaging

Medical imaging is at the forefront of diagnostics today, with imaging techniques like MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computerized tomography), scanning, and NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) increasing steeply over the last two decades. However, persisting problems of image resolution and quality still limit these techniques because of the nature of living tissue.

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Many Patients Lack Information about the Use of Targeted Therapies

More than three quarters of oncology specialists in Europe, South America and Asia believe their patients are not always well enough informed about the treatment options available to them, survey results have revealed at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, Spain. The results come from an online survey of 895 doctors from 12 countries in Europe, South America and Asia.

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Italian Conference on eHealth and European Telemedicine Conference 2014

7 - 8 October 2014, Rome, Italy.
The Italian Ministry of Health is organizing, under the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union the Conference on eHealth that will take place on 7-8 October 2014 in Rome. The Conference on eHealth will be held in conjunction with the European Telemedicine Conference. The Conference on eHealth and the European Telemedicine Conference will share the following sessions:

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