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IMS MAXIMS Named as Only EPR and PAS Open Source Supplier in Technology Fund Two Catalogue

IMS MAXIMS has been named as one of 11 open source suppliers in a 'catalogue' designed to support NHS England’s technology fund two, officially called the Integrated Digital Care Fund, which opened for applications last week.

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Mobile Phone Data Helps Combat Malaria

An international study led by the University of Southampton and the National Vector-borne Diseases Control Programme (NVDCP) in Namibia has used mobile phone data to help combat malaria more effectively. The study used anonymised mobile records to measure population movements within Namibia in Africa over the period of a year (2010-11).

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UK Renal Registry Chooses InterSystems HealthShare for Chronic Kidney Disease Monitoring and Reporting in Britain

InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, today announced that the UK Renal Registry has chosen InterSystems HealthShare® as its new national health informatics platform, gathering data from 84 adult and paediatric renal units, plus satellite haemodialysis units, on over 56,000 patients suffering from stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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Integrated Care and Communication Across Sectors in New Zealand

Times are changing: the era of fragmented healthcare is nearing its end. Awareness has been growing in many health systems as a result of the major challenges which lie ahead - growing pressure on healthcare resources due to demographic change; increasing quality requirements, and tightening of budgets - can only be met by restructuring the whole approach to the provision of healthcare.

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Armenian Association of Telemedicine is a Partner in a Multinational Educational Project on Biomedical Engineering

Armenian Association of Telemedicine is participating in an important multinational educational initiative in the field of medical technologies. The project titled "Biomedical Engineering Education Tempus Initiative in Eastern Neighboring Area" (BME-ENA) funded by the European Commission through its long-lasting higher education reform program (TEMPUS IV), involves besides AATM, 16 universities from 7 EU countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia), and 4 countries of the so-called Eastern Neighboring Area (ENA) - Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

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Phase Contrast Improves Mammography

Phase contrast X-ray imaging has enabled researchers at ETH Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Kantonsspital Baden to perform mammographic imaging that allows greater precision in the assessment of breast cancer and its precursors. The technique could improve biopsy diagnostics and follow-up.

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Health IT Strategies in the Era of Integrated Care

The healthcare industry is currently experiencing change at an unprecedented rate. Change is not only occurring in the technology used in diagnostics and care delivery, but this change is so fundamental that it could, and likely will, fundamentally alter the business model of the industry. In recent years, healthcare expenditures have risen consistently and sharply in all Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, outpacing the rate of inflation.

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Eighteen Critical Success Factors for Deploying Telemedicine

The Momentum project published a list of 18 factors that are critical to deploying telemedicine successfully into routine health care. Distilled from an analysis of telemedicine practices by experts from across Europe, these factors will help telemedicine "doers" to build sustainable implementations from the ground up or move experimental pilots into routine care. Telemedicine, which is care where the healthcare professional and the patient are not in the same room, holds promise for European healthcare systems.

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iHealth and Doctors 2.0 & You Announcing a Unique Connected Health Challenge for All Participants #doctors20

5 - 6 June 2014, Paris, France.
Doctors 2.0 & You and iHealth have announced the details of a Connected Health Challenge, part of their Platinum partnership, for the 4th edition of the conference. For the first time in France, a Digital health conference is offering each participant the opportunity of participating in a Quantified Self Walking challenge, thanks to a free activity tracker.

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Agfa HealthCare - First Quarter 2014

Impacted by adverse currency effects, Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased by 11.6 percent. On a currency comparable basis, the decrease amounted to 7.8 percent. A major part of the film revenue decline of the Imaging segment is attributable to the weak performance in the emerging markets. In the segment's digital radiography business (consisting of Computed Radiography, Direct Radiography and the hardcopy business), the DR product range continued its strong growth.

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