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12 - 14 May 2014, Athens, Greece.
The works of eHealth Forum 2014 were successfully completed. More than 1,278 participants from 38 countries and 150 speakers from around the globe joined the eHealth Forum 2014 in Athens. In total 70 exhibitors participated from Europe and US; among them SMEs and Start-Up companies.

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High-Tech Medical Equipment and "Putin's palace"

According to a Reuters investigation a luxurious estate on the Black Sea known as "Putin's Palace," was partly funded by taxpayer money from a hospitals modernisation project. The investigation describes how two associates of Putin made profits by buying high-tech medical equipment through a British company and selling it in Russia at much higher prices.

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Entertainment is the Best Medicine

Dublin's Temple Street Children's University Hospital recently re-opened their Top Flat ward - equipped with patient entertainment units from Lincor. These PatientLINC devices are initially focused on providing TV, movies, Radio, Movies on demand and the ability to plug in the child's own games console but there are advanced plans to enhance the offering by including internet access, video messaging, patient information and patient surveys in the short term.

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Opinion Article: 'Pilotitis' and Bureaucracy are Stunting Healthcare Advances

By Matt Hunt of Apadmi and Dr. Farid Khan of eLucid mHealth.
The mHealth market has never been in better shape with a flurry of start-ups and established players developing hardware and solutions that will change the face of modern day medicine. The drivers of change include better managing the increasing burden of ageing populations, the need for improved healthcare in remote and developed geographies and the opportunities that technology brings for diagnostics, preventative medicine and patient monitoring.

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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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