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Philips Partners with the Stockholm County Council and Karolinska University Hospital to Meet Future Demands of Health Care

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with the Stockholm County Council (SCC) to jointly innovate in health care. This comprises R&D, an innovation program and education, and the procurement, installation, maintenance, upgrading and replacement of most of the medical imaging equipment for the new hospital site for Karolinska in Solna, Sweden for a 14-year term.

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conhIT Presents the Future of Digital Healthcare in Berlin

6 - 8 May 2014, Berlin, Germany.
Fascinating, stimulating and informative: that is what conhIT promises to be when it presents the topic of health IT over the next three days. 359 exhibitors from ten countries will be providing a market overview of the latest healthcare IT solutions on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds. The programme features around 150 events which will provide opportunities for education, information exchange and networking. Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe has agreed to act as patron of the event.

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Airport Security-Style Technology Could Help Doctors Decide on Stroke Treatment

A new computer program could help doctors predict which patients might suffer potentially fatal side-effects from a key stroke treatment. The program, which assesses brain scans using pattern recognition software similar to that used in airport security and passport control, has been developed by researchers at Imperial College London. Results of a pilot study funded by the Wellcome Trust, which used the software are published in the journal Neuroimage Clinical.

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Make the Most of Your Experience at the mHealth Summit Europe

6 - 8 May 2014, Berlin, Germany.
mHealth Summit Europe brings together global leaders in government, the private sector, industry, academia, providers and not-for-profit organizations from across the mHealth ecosystem. A distinguished faculty of international experts and opinion leaders will address and discuss the themes such as: mobility in chronic disease management, mobility in elderly care management and privacy and security of data.

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Open Software Platform for Ambient Assisted Living at conhIT 2014

Sekoia, an open software platform for applications in the welfare area, will be presented to the public at conhIT 2014. In very short time Sekoia has turned a market out of supporting nursing homes and similar institutions from Denmark with a flexible assisted living platform. The main approach was to simplify and ease the daily life of workers and inhabitants in all types of care homes from the country.

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Central Topic at conhIT 2014: Measures Needed to Ensure Interoperability in Outpatient Care

6 - 8 May 2014, Berlin, Germany.
Healthcare policymakers are demanding greater cooperation in the organisation of outpatient care and closer networking among the relevant sectors responsible for patient care. A new specialist medical outpatient care sector is currently being set up that will make it mandatory for resident practitioners and hospitals to cooperate. Furthermore, healthcare insurances and statutory health insurance-registered physicians also support networking among doctors and regional cooperation among service providers.

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RaySearch Establishes Sales and Support Company in Germany

RaySearch has established a German subsidiary, RaySearch Germany GmbH. The new subsidiary is fully responsible for the marketing, sales and service of RaySearch’s proprietary treatment planning system RayStation® in Germany, Austria and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland. It will serve new as well as existing customers such as DKFZ and WPE in Germany and MedAustron in Austria.

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Healthcare DENMARK: Innovating Better Life

Healthcare DENMARK is a public-private partnership with a national, political mandate to promote Danish healthcare solutions and competencies abroad. The partnership is a framework for linking international partners with efficient Danish solutions and does not represent any individual company or product. Healthcare DENMARK is funded by the following public and private partners:

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Imaging Gives Clearer Picture of Cancer Drugs' Chances of Success

The quest for new cancer treatments could be revolutionised by advances in technology that can visualise living cells and tissues, scientists claim. Leading edge imaging techniques will make it easier to identify which are the most promising new drugs to take forward for patient testing, a review of the technology suggests. Applying such techniques early in the drug discovery process could improve the success rate of new medicines by helping to rule out drugs that are unlikely to work.

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Danish Healthcare System to Provide Elsevier's ClinicalKey to Clinicians Across Entire Country

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that Denmark has decided to provide access to Elsevier's ClinicalKey to more than 19,000 healthcare professionals across the country. The Danish Regions and Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEFF) chose to provide ClinicalKey, Elsevier's innovative online search tool, to make electronic medical information available to healthcare professionals in a cohesive, simple way.

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