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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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Opinion Article: Open source Needs to be Approached with Caution

By Andy Clegg, Clinical Consultant, Orion Health
As a clinical consultant representing a proprietary software supplier in healthcare, you may be surprised to hear that I believe the attention that open source software is receiving in the marketplace is positive. This is not because open source can solve all of the current IT challenges within the healthcare service, but because it has the potential to drive a new level of innovation throughout the industry.

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Visualising Plastic Changes to the Brain

Tinnitus, migraine, epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's: all these are examples of diseases with neurological causes, the treatment and study of which is more and more frequently being carried out by means of magnetic stimulation of the brain. However, the method's precise mechanisms of action have not, as yet, been fully understood. The work group headed by PD Dr Dirk Jancke from the Institut für Neuroinformatik was the first to succeed in illustrating the neuronal effects of this treatment method with high-res images.

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Health Technology and Telemedicine Competition for Young Innovators 2014

7 - 8 October 2014, Rome, Italy.
The European Telemedicine Conference (ETC) 2014 is launching the 2014 Health Technology and Telemedicine Competition for Young Innovators (HTComp for Young Innovators 2014), an international contest for young entrepreneurs and start-up firms focusing on new innovative ideas in the field of health IT and telemedicine. HTComp for Young Innovators 2014 assigns cash prizes to the best ideas expressed in the form of business plans.

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European Telemedicine Conference 2014 and Italian Conference on eHealth

7 - 8 October 2014, Rome, Italy.
The Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Directorate General of information and statistical system of the Italian Ministry of Health co-locates the 'Conference on eHealth' with the European Telemedicine Conference 2014. A European Telemedicine Conference registration will give you access to the Conference on eHealth.

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